Unlimited Family Tree Freeware on Windows, Mac and Linux

Your genealogy in complete freedom

Thanks to Ancestris, you keep your genealogy under control.
Your data is only in a Gedcom file, so never lost or unreadable by other software, and therefore forever transmissible to your loved ones.

A powerful software

More than 30 tools to manipulate your genealogy or make analysis: classic or sophisticated editors, dynamic tree, geographical view, chronological, list of places, management of sources and media, statistical reports, sosa-daboville numbering, merge, detection of duplicates, etc.

A responsive community at your service

Need help ? Genealogists users of Ancestris answer you.
Requests for improvements? Make your suggestions and developers will modify Ancestris if it is relevant to the greatest number.

Why Ancestris

To allow all genealogists, from beginners to experts, to build their genealogy in complete freedom. For us your data is what is most important. With Ancestris, you can enrich and maintain it without risk of loss, unlike what can happen with other non-free software on the market, when changing software or changing version.

Free

You pay nothing, the software is free for life, and the updates are free and available directly from the software.

No strings attached

You are free to store, read, manipulate, and publish your genealogy without depending on any software nor operating system.

Unlimited

You can manage an unlimited number of individuals, families, and other documents for as many different genealogies as you want.

Community

You benefit from a free assistance of reactive volunteers and from the users community.

Powerful

You can count on a 26 years old software which satisfies thousands of users.

Comprehensive

You benefit from all the features and tools to edit and publish your genealogy.

Download Ancestris

Ancestris is available for the three systems below, with either version 12, stable since 06/2024,
or with version 13, updated daily and including all latest functionalities.

macOS

For macOS, versions 12 and 13 are installed the same way by simply clicking on the downloaded package.

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Windows

For Windows, version 12 includes an automated installer, and version 13 is a compressed archive file to unzip.

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Linux

For Linux, versions 12 and 13 are installed the same way, as a clickable AppImage or as a ZIP file to unzip.

Facts

These facts demonstrate the strength of the software.

Years of experience

65,000

Uses per month

100

Countries

Testimonials

Where users did not wish to attach their real photo to their comment, an anonymous photo was used instead.

Daniel

User since 2022

I would like to become a member for the simple and good reason that I have been using Ancestris for about a year, and after having used Hérédis and various genealogy sites at the same time, I find the design of the program and the help received on the forum to be the best without imposing any payment. (February 2023)

Francesca

User since 2018

I installed Ancestris for a little over 2 years now and I am absolutely delighted! I hadn't taken the time to place myself on the map, that's it! Thank you very much for this magnificent tool and the investment of the whole team to make it evolve as well as the content of the website, a mine of information!! (June 2020)

Eric

User since 2021

A week of Ancestris and I realize the damage to my GEDCOM after 15 years of using Geneatique. Frankly, what a pleasure to regain control of my data! The GEDCOM editor has become my friend... (January 2021)

Jean-Luc

User

I am enthusiastic about your software, and more and more, as I discover all of its many possibilities. I'm going to take this opportunity to revisit my genealogy, which has been left hanging for some time, and bring it up to date thanks to Ancestris.(Nov 2020)

Martin Slavík

Digital Humanities Teacher

Ancestris is a piece of excellent genealogical software with advanced features. From beginners to professionals and for free. Amazing.

Eric

Events organiser

Even more than before, I will not fail to promote Ancestris. You have demonstrated that Ancestris is not just a simple free genealogy software, it is above all a team of professionals, confident and benevolent.

Guillaume de Morant

Journalist of the French Review of Genealogy

Strict compliance with the Gedcom standard allows you to exchange genealogical data without error.

André

User 2016

I've been using Ancestris since version 9 after having used Geneatique, Heredis, Gramps and so on.
For me, it's the best.
Ancestris is also managed by a powerful and very responsive team, which, with the members of the list, makes it possible not to leave a problem for long without a solution. (April 2020)

Nadine Pellen

Author of 'Cystic Fibrosis in Legacy' in 2015.

The quality of this software also lies in its development ability to meet specific requests - page 83.

André

Converted to Ancestris

Thanks again to the developers of this excellent software.

Didier

Passionate genealogist

Ancestris has all the great features of genealogy software and more!

Chantal

Blogger

Ancestris genealogical research is a major step forward for genealogists
who want to search the trees of other genealogists.

Alice

Historian

Ancestris is the ideal tool to start your genealogy or to migrate from another software.

Worldwide Ancestris Users Map

Screenshots

All
Views
Tools
Editors

Media

Show or add media

Cygnus Editor

Edit your genealogy

Dynamic Tree

Add from the tree

Graphic multi-generations tree

View your reports

Graph View

View the graph

Web Book

Publish your genealogy

Geographic View

See your events on a map

Duplicate Handling

Detect duplicates

Places Editor

Find and locate your places

Team

We founded Ancestris because we are all passionate amateur genealogists who promote Free Genealogy.
Numerous contributors are also helping us, for translations, user assistance, development of certain functionalities, and to communicate about Ancestris.