Chart once
Parents, partners, kids, photos. The lines redraw when someone is born or married.
Free family tree maker
Free online family tree chart
Build the chart free with names and photos. Print it for Thanksgiving. Keep a monthly plan if you want this year’s Family Book for Mother’s Day — credits refresh, the tree stays yours.
Free to start the chart · No Ancestry login · Photos are not used to train AI
Print this weekend
Thanksgiving, a reunion, or a 3rd-grade project on letter paper.
A book every season
Mother’s Day, a new baby, December — credits come back each month on LlamaGen.
Create a family tree online — free
Open the free family tree maker, keep the example names and portraits, or start from yourself. Relatives are real connections, so the chart redraws itself when the family grows.
- Works in the browser on a laptop or phone
- Add mom, dad, a partner, a kid, or a sibling in one click
- Drop in photos so it looks like your family, not empty boxes
- Download a PNG to text, or a PDF to print on letter paper
How to make a family tree
1
Open the free maker
Create a family tree in your browser. Use the example or start blank—no software to install.
2
Add people and photos
Click a relative, type a name, and attach a portrait. Press Delete to remove a person.
3
Connect the family
Add a parent, partner, child, or sibling. Lines follow the relationships automatically.
4
Download the chart
Pick a free family tree template look, then export PNG or PDF for school, gifts, or archives.
What is a family tree?
A family tree is a chart that traces a person’s ancestry and maps the relationships between relatives—living or remembered. It can hold partners, children, chosen family, and the generations that came before.
Unlike a poster of disconnected shapes, a free online family tree maker should keep those links editable. When you add a sibling or correct a parent, the diagram should update from the data.
Why use family trees?
Family trees make heritage visible. They help children learn who belongs to whom, give reunions a centerpiece, and keep names together for memorials, classroom projects, or a simple keepsake at home.
Use this page when you already know the people you want on the chart. It does not search census records or DNA matches—it turns what you know into a clear, downloadable family tree diagram.
Discover your family story
Add as many relatives as you need. The free family tree builder keeps portraits, dates, and relationship lines together, so the chart still reads as a family—not a stack of unlabeled boxes.
After the chart is right, you can optionally turn the same people into a family book. That is extra — the tree itself is the product.
Decorate your trees
Switch a classroom, botanical, memorial, or photo template without redrawing names. Connectors stay attached to the people they belong to. Upload portraits, then export a chart that looks finished enough to print.
Shared with generations to come
Drafts save on this computer as you work. Download PNG for group texts, PDF for the printer. Sign in only if you want the same tree on your phone later.
Types of family tree you can build
Ancestor chart
Start with yourself and add parents, grandparents, and earlier generations upward. Most personal family trees begin here.
Descendant chart
Start with an older relative and map children, grandchildren, and later branches downward for reunions or estate context.
Blended family chart
Include adoptive, step, foster, and multiple partners without forcing one biological shape. Connections stay explicit.
Printable keepsake
Same people and edges, different template—classroom, gift, memorial, or photo-forward—then export PNG or PDF.
Start inspired with a free family tree template
Open any example in the free family tree maker. Names, photos, and lines stay editable—only the look changes.
Everyday family history
Simple ancestry chart
White cards and quiet ink lines when you need a readable free family tree chart for sharing or printing.
Create a family treeGift or reunion
Keepsake print
Cream paper with a warm orange edge for a printable keepsake after a family gathering.
Create a family treeWedding or baby gift
Botanical gift tree
Soft cream frames for a gentle family tree template that feels like a present, not a spreadsheet.
Create a family treeSchool assignment
Classroom project
High-contrast ink cards so names stay legible on a projector or homework printout.
Create a family treeCeremony or archive
Memorial chart
Ink and parchment for a formal ancestry chart when the tone should stay ceremonial.
Create a family treeAlbum-style chart
Photo family tree
Portrait-first cards so relatives look like people, not empty boxes.
Create a family treeWhy a family pays every month
Ancestry is for finding people you do not know. LlamaGen is for making the next thing for people you do — and the family keeps changing.
May
Mother's Day book
Same tree. New Family Book. Credits refresh so you are not buying a one-off Etsy poster.
Summer
Reunion comic
A short comic cousins can pass around. Names stay consistent with the chart.
November
Thanksgiving print
Letter-size PDF for the fridge. Add the new spouse before dinner.
December
Holiday gift
A book for grandparents from the roster you already maintain.
Anytime
New baby
One new person on the chart, then a welcome book. No redrawing lines by hand.
Anytime
In memory
A quiet biography of one person, using dates you already entered.
Not Ancestry. Not Canva.
Ancestry charges to search records. Canva charges to decorate boxes. LlamaGen Standard is $18/month because the tree is the source of truth and credits make the next book when the year turns.
- The chart is free to start. Membership keeps it and funds the books.
- Credits are shared with LlamaGen comics — one family account.
- We do not search DNA or census. We do not train on your photos.
- Pro at $30 is for families who will make more than one book this year.
Family plans
Same LlamaGen membership used across the site. $18 Standard is the family default. $30 Pro if you will make several books this year. Credits are not unlimited — they refresh monthly.
Family tree maker questions
Keep this family this year
Start the chart free. Upgrade when you want the tree saved and a book for the next holiday.