The Best 33 Ancestry Alternatives

  • Gramps icon

    Gramps

    Gramps is a Free Software Project for Genealogy, offering a professional cross-platform genealogy program, and a wiki open to all. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    WikiTree.com

    The WikiTree community is growing a free worldwide family tree. The site is 100% free. There are no premium memberships. All content is contributed by the users and you can keep copyrights.

    Free Web

  • MyHeritage icon

    MyHeritage

    MyHeritage is a family-oriented social network service and genealogy website. It allows members to create their own family websites, share pictures and videos, organize family events,create family trees, and search for ancestors.

    Freemium Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web

  • FamilySearch.org icon

    FamilySearch.org

    Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy Records and Resources from Around the World

    Free Personal Web

  • webtrees icon

    webtrees

    webtrees is a free open source online collaborative genealogy application, it works with standard GEDCOM files and is installed on a webserver using PHP and MySQL.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Legacy Family Tree icon

    Legacy Family Tree

    Legacy is a full-featured genealogy program that assists family historians in tracking, organizing, printing, and sharing family history.

    Freemium Windows

  • Geni icon

    Geni

    Geni.com is a genealogy-related social networking website. Create your family tree and invite relatives to share. Search 70 million profiles. Discover your ancestors. Share photos, videos and more at Geni.com.

    Freemium Web

  • Ahnenblatt icon

    Ahnenblatt

    Ahnenblatt is genealogy software for Windows. (Use Portable Version for Linux with Wine) Designed to manage your genealogy data and to generate reports and graphical trees.

    Free Windows Linux

  • GenealogyJ icon

    GenealogyJ

    GenealogyJ is a genealogy program, suitable for hobbyist, family historian and genealogy researcher. GenealogyJ supports the GEDCOM standard, and offers many views like family tree, table, timeline, geography and more.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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    Ancestris

    Ancestris is a free software suitable for all genealogists. It is available on all operating systems. It strictly respects the GedCom 5.5 and accepts 5.5.1 standard as it directly writes all information into the Gedcom file.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku Self-Hosted

  • GenoPro icon

    GenoPro

    GenoPro is easy to use genealogy software to create family trees and genograms.

    Commercial Windows

  • MacFamilyTree icon

    MacFamilyTree

    Explore your personal family history and discover your origins, your ancestors and how your family has evolved over the course of time. MacFamilyTree offers numerous options for you to capture and visualize your family history.

    Commercial Mac OS X iPhone iPad

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    Pedigreeable

    Pedigreeable enables anyone to create beautiful, printable family tree art -- show the generations of your family in fun and modern ways.

    Commercial Web

  • Reunion icon

    Reunion

    Reunion is a genealogy software program for the Macintosh Reunion allows you to document, store, and display information about your family — your ancestors, descendants, cousins, etc.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Genoom icon

    Genoom

    Genoom is a web application for families. With Genoom you can create your family tree and build your own private family social network and stay in touch with family members all over the world.

    Free Web

  • Simple Family Tree icon

    Simple Family Tree

    Simple Family Tree enables you to create and/or view a family tree. It displays ancestors and descendants of any selected individual (it reads and writes files in Gedcom format).

    Free Windows

  • 23andMe icon

    23andMe

    You are made of cells. And the cells in your body have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Your chromosomes are made of DNA, which can tell you a lot about you. 23andMe offers two Personal Genetic Services: Health + Ancestry and Ancestry.

    Commercial

  • ZoomPast icon

    ZoomPast

    Family tree explorer with support for GEDCOM files, privacy settings, and more.

    Free Web

  • Heredis icon

    Heredis

    Heredis is a full-featured genealogy software. - Immediate Family Heredis offers three different angles for visualizing your family.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Android Web