The Best 26 FamilySearch.org Alternatives

  • 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

  • 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

    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

  • 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

    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

  • Ancestry

    Discover your family history and start your family tree. Try free and access over 7 billion genealogy records including Census, SSDI & Military records.

    Freemium

  • 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

    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

  • My Family Tree

    My Family Tree is a genealogy product for all keen family historians. Its modern user interface and wide range of features will help you create your family tree in no time at all.

    Free Personal Windows

  • 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

  • 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

    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

  • The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding

    The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) is a powerful way to manage and display your genealogy data on your own web site, all without generating a single page of static HTML.

    Commercial Web LAMMPS WampServer XAMPP

  • brothers keeper

    Brother's Keeper is a Windows genealogy program that will help you input and organize your family history information and let you print a large variety of charts and reports.

    Commercial Windows

  • LifeLines

    LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history research. Its primary strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • GeneoTree

    Geneotree is an open source web-based genealogy application developed in the PHP scripting language and the MySQL database. It installs on Linux and Windows and works natively with GEDCOM files. It makes a variety of reports as PDF files.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Genealone

    Genealogy website builder. Create your own genealogy website or publish any genealogical content online.

    Freemium Web Self-Hosted Wordpress

  • Family Atlas

    Family Atlas is the fun and easy way to map your family history! Trace your ancestors migration around the world and pinpoint the sites of important family events.

    Commercial Windows

  • Family Historian

    Family Historian is a family tree program offering great diagram facilities. It was praised in particular for its ability to enter data directly from diagrams and for its multi-media capabilities.

    Commercial Windows