Genealogy made simple.
Build your tree, fill it with photos, documents and stories, and share it with your family or with the world. No hassle.
- Private by default
- Free forever, with no limit on people
- No ads, no selling your data
Start your tree I already have an account
Already have it on MyHeritage, Ancestry or Gramps? Bring it over.
Build your tree
Add people right on the tree —parents, children, partners— and gather their dates, photos and stories in no time.
Already have it in another program? Upload it as a GEDCOM file and carry on from there.
Write your family’s story
Anecdotes, memories, recipes, the story of a whole branch: the things only told around the table after a meal, and lost once nobody is left to tell them. Write them down with their photos and link to the people in them, so every story stays with its people.
You decide whether it shows up on Google or stays in the family.
Follow the family across the map
A wedding, a move, the boat to Buenos Aires. Every event you add, with its date and place, grows the family map: where they settled, when they moved and how far they went.
Filter with the timeline and see what happened in any period: where everyone was the year your grandfather was born, or who left during the war.
Photos, where they belong
Get the photos out of the shoebox and sort them into albums: “The ’55 wedding”, “Cuba”, “Summers in the village”. Tag who’s in each photo and it will show up on their profile too. Then search by person, by year or by decade.
The free plan fits 200 in the gallery, not counting the tree’s portraits. With the Family plan, 2,000. Family plan
A print for the wall
From the tree to a poster: you choose who’s in it, the style of the cards, the colors, the frame and the paper, and download it ready to print. With the timeline alongside, if you want to show what happened each year. The kind of gift that ends up on the wall.
Free in low resolution, with the “1199.es · make yours” signature. In high quality, from €7.99, or unlimited with the Family plan. Family plan
See it finished
Genealogía Mesa
900 años de historia
152 people ·
posts, map, timeline and gallery
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See a sample family → Made up, to show how yours would look.
What’s inside
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The tree
Whole generations on a canvas you can move and zoom. Parents, children, partners, second marriages and the ones nobody knows where they belong. No limit on people.
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A profile for each person
First name, surnames, nickname, dates and places, occupation, portrait and the people in their life. What isn’t known is left blank, to be found out later.
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Each person, just once
The same profile can be in several trees at once, without being copied. That way trees touch, and a surname leads from one family to another.
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Posts
Write stories with their photos, their quotes and the card of whoever is in them. They’re published on the tree’s site, and you can see how many people read them. Family plan
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Maps
Where they were born, where they married, where they emigrated to. Each life on a real map, and the whole family on another, to see where it all came from.
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Timeline
Births, weddings, journeys and deaths put in order, with uncertain dates said the way people say them: “around 1880”, “before the war”.
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Gallery
Photos and documents in albums, with who’s in each one. Portraits go straight to their profile, and the census scan stays where it belongs.
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Search the whole database
A name, a surname, a town or a year, and whoever matches turns up in the public trees across all of 1199. That’s how people find relatives they didn’t know they had.
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A site with your style
The tree’s front page is shown to whoever you like, in the style that suits it: understated, magazine, family album. With its own address, to send around.
Your family is not a product.
You decide, always: what’s private, what’s public, what gets deleted and what you take with you.What it costs
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Free
0 € forever
One tree, with no limit on people. Its site with posts, map, timeline and gallery (200 photos). Take it with you in GEDCOM whenever you like.
Just launched
Right now, everything is free.
- Today
- 1199 has just opened and is in a trial phase. Everyone gets the Free plan, with nothing to pay and no card needed.
- Later on
- There will be paid plans for those who want more: your family editing with you, more trees and photos, and high-resolution prints and the book. What is free will stay free.
- Meanwhile
- If something breaks or you miss something, tell us: now is when it helps most.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. One tree with as many people as you like, its site with posts, map, timeline and gallery, and taking it with you in GEDCOM, without ever paying. You pay for the extras: inviting others to edit, more trees and more photos, and high-quality downloads. See pricing.
Can I bring the tree I already have in another program?
Yes, as a GEDCOM file (.ged), which MyHeritage, Ancestry, Gramps, FamilySearch and almost any genealogy program can export. Before bringing it in, it tells you how many people it contains. Photos don’t travel in GEDCOM: those are uploaded separately. How to get it out of each program.
Who can see my living relatives?
Whoever you like. A tree starts out private, and even if you make it public you can keep anyone private: outside your trees, neither their name nor their photo appears. Minors are always private, without you having to do anything.
Where is my data kept? Do you sell it?
On our server, at Hostinger, with encrypted backups at Hetzner, in Germany. We don’t sell or hand over your data, there’s no advertising and there are no tracking cookies. The full privacy policy.
What if 1199 closes one day?
You don’t have to wait for that to take it with you: from your account you can download a copy of everything that’s yours whenever you like, with the photos and albums, and the data in GEDCOM, which any genealogy program can open.
Start with whoever you remember.
Your parents, your grandparents, the name that came up at family dinners. The rest will follow.
Start my tree nowFree forever, with no limit on people.