Invite-only by design
Everyone remembers
a different piece.
Keep them together.
Legacy is a private home for your family history. Build the tree with the relatives who hold the missing names, see where everyone came from on a map, and keep it all somewhere it won't be lost.
Free while it's in the open. Export to GEDCOM whenever you like.
The Rathi Family
3 generations · 8 people
How it works
A family tree is a group project.
One person almost never has the whole picture. Legacy is built around the fact that the rest of it lives in other people's heads.
Start with yourself
Add your name, then your parents, then theirs. Every person you add offers the next obvious question — who were their parents, who did they marry, who did they raise.
No forms full of identifiers. You pick a person and say "add her mother".
Invite the ones who remember
Send an invite link to the aunt who knows the dates and the cousin who has the photographs. They fill in what you can't, and you watch it appear.
Roles decide who can edit. Every change is signed and reversible.
See the shape of it
The tree lays itself out by generation. The map shows the towns your family left and the cities they landed in. The timeline puts a whole century in one view.
Ask how anyone is related and get a plain answer: "your second cousin".
What you get
Everything a family archive needs. Nothing it doesn't.
A tree that lays itself out
Generations line up, couples sit together, siblings hang beneath the parents who had them. Remarriages, half-siblings and adoptions are first-class, not workarounds.
Real relationships
Ask how you are related to anyone and get the phrase your family would use.
A map of where you came from
Births, deaths and homes plotted together, with the lines each generation travelled.
A century in one view
Every birth, marriage and death on a single timeline you can scrub through.
Find anyone instantly
Press ⌘K and start typing a name, a place, a decade.
Nothing happens quietly
Every edit is recorded with who made it and when — a family archive deserves an archive of its own.
Yours to take
Export the whole tree to GEDCOM, JSON or CSV in one click. Import from Ancestry or Gramps just as easily.
Built for the long run
Dark mode, keyboard shortcuts, and a layout that stays readable at four hundred people.
Privacy
You are handing us your family. We know what that means.
Birth dates, addresses, the names of children — this is the most personal data most people will ever type into anything. Here is exactly how it is handled.
Invite-only, always
There is no public directory and no way to join by guessing an address. The only door is a link an admin created, and they can revoke it, set it to expire, or cap how many times it works.
Living people stay private
Turn on protected mode and the dates, places and life stories of anyone still living are withheld from view-only members. They still see the shape of the family — just not the private detail. Enforced on the server, not hidden in the interface.
Every change is signed
Who added your grandmother, who corrected her birth year, who removed a link last Tuesday. The activity log is visible to admins and it is not editable by anyone.
Leave whenever you like
One click exports the entire tree as GEDCOM for other genealogy software, JSON for a faithful backup, or CSV for a spreadsheet. No export means no exit.
Delete means deleted
The creator can delete a tree outright — people, relationships, photos, history. You type its name to confirm, and then it is gone from the database.
Four roles, decided by you
Permission is checked on the server for every single request — never only in the browser.
Creator
Everything, including deleting the tree
Admin
Manage people, members, invites and settings
Editor
Add and edit people and relationships
Viewer
Look, and nothing more
We do not sell data, run ads, or share anything with third parties. Sign-in is handled by Clerk, and everything travels over HTTPS.
The people who remember won't always be here to ask.
Start with one name. Add the two above it. Send the link to the person most likely to correct you — that is usually how the good stuff surfaces.