I made a simple, free family tree app that handled my 300 person, 5 gen. family

https://www.familytreeiq.com

by mknweb • 3 months ago

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mknweb• 3 months ago

I built a simple, totally free family tree app after struggling to map my own family.

I know Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, etc. already exist. The issue for me was not historical records or DNA research. It was just creating a clear, shareable tree for a very large real-world family.

My family tree is already 300+ people across 5 generations, with lots of branches and relatives who know different pieces of the story. Most tools I tried either felt too research-heavy, too complicated, or did not scale well for the way my family is structured.

So I built FamilyTreeIQ to be simple, free, focused on building and sharing the tree itself, usable for large families, and easy enough for relatives to understand.

I’m not trying to replace Ancestry or serious genealogy tools. This is more for families who want a clean, shared way to map “who’s connected to who.”

I’d love blunt feedback, especially from anyone with a large or complicated family tree:

Does this feel useful? Is the idea clear? What would make you trust a free family-tree app with your family info?

fjfaase• 3 months ago

What about privacy? Maybe not everyone wants to share his information with every far relative that you might never have met or twenty years ago when your grandmother died and you already have become a grandparent as well.

I made a simple, free family tree app that handled my 300 person, 5 gen. family

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