Connect with your family history. Create and visualize your family tree, track relationships, and preserve your family’s legacy for future generations.
Visualize Your Tree
See your family connections in an interactive, beautiful family tree visualization.
Track Members
Add family members with detailed information including birthdays, locations, and more.
Connect Relationships
Link family members through various relationship types and preserve your family history.
Charts you can build
Pick a plan to see that size, then use the same chart styles on every tier. A family is whoever belongs on the tree.
Partners, married or not
Parents of every kind
Adoptive, foster, and step
Siblings you chose
Every kind of household
Living and remembered
The Chen Family
Sapling · 10 of 10Top-down tree
The default layout: oldest generation on top, children below. A compact household with a divorce, a remarriage, an adopted son, and a grandchild born before marriage.
Toggle a category to see the options. These are the same settings in the live editor.
Colors examples
Ira Bell
1952
Black
The default card color.
Nola Bell
1953
Slate
Available on any person.
Owen Bell
1954
Gray
Available on any person.
Sage Bell
1955
Purple
Available on any person.
Ruby Bell
1956
Pink
Available on any person.
Hana Shore
1957
Blue
Available on any person.
Mira Shore
1958
Green
Available on any person.
Cole Shore
1959
Amber
Available on any person.
Mina Cole
1960
Indigo
Available on any person.
Joel Cole
1961
Red
Available on any person.
Ada Cole
1962
Teal
Available on any person.
Ben Cole
1963
Orange
Available on any person.
Ivy Cole
1964
Lime
Available on any person.
Ari Reed
1965
Cyan
Available on any person.
Mia Reed
1966
Rose
Available on any person.
Leo Reed
1967
Gold
Available on any person.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Fifteen answers about the tree, who can see it, what it costs, and what happens to your family’s data.
A private family tree you can actually see. Add people, connect how they are related, and look at the whole family on one canvas. Photos, dates, places, and notes stay with each person, so the next generation is not left guessing who they came from.
Yes. Open Root It, the chat on this site, and start naming people before you have an account. When you sign up, that conversation is attached to you. The full tree — editing, inviting, and keeping it — opens after you choose a plan.
Create an account, pick Sapling, Grove, or Forest, and check out. Then add yourself and the people closest to you. You can fill in a profile by hand, or tell Root It something like “Add my mother, Elena, born in 1962,” and it will place her on the tree.
Only you, until you invite someone. A tree is private. People you invite by email join that tree and can see what you have shared with them. We do not sell your data. The Privacy Policy lists exactly what is stored and who it is shared with.
Yes. Send an email invite and they join the same tree. You stay the owner. They can add people and fill in what they know, which is how a family spread across cities ends up on one map.
A name, birthday, birthplace, death date and place, photos, profession, contact details, and notes. Living and deceased people both belong on the tree. You can also record more than one photo and change how that person’s card looks on the canvas.
Yes. A link can be a spouse or an ex-spouse, a biological, adoptive, or step parent, the matching child relationship, or a biological, half, step, or adoptive sibling. Real families are rarely one straight line, and the tree does not pretend they are.
The assistant in the chat drawer. Talk to it in English, Russian, or Spanish. Ask it to add someone, connect two people, look someone up, or answer a question about the tree. Suggestions stay on the chat from your progress, the season, and the next recorded fact. If you want a themed picture of the tree, it quotes a price first. You can attach photos, clips, or other files, then approve to pay or keep talking. You can still edit everything by hand when you would rather click than type.
One request is one chat message, one “add with AI,” or one research ask. Each plan includes a monthly allowance — 40 on Sapling, 150 on Grove, 500 on Forest — and unused requests reset at the start of the next month, including on a one-time plan. If you run out, the tree still works. Buy a top-up pack ($2.99 for 100, $7.99 for 300, or $19.99 for 1,000) and those extra requests never expire.
Pay once, or monthly or yearly if you would rather subscribe. One-time is $59 for Sapling, $129 for Grove, and $299 for Forest. Monthly starts at $2.99. There is no free tree after signup — a plan is what unlocks it. Compare them on the pricing page.
Sapling holds up to 10 people, which covers a close family. Grove holds up to 40, enough for grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Forest has no member limit, can hold more than one tree, and is the plan that can export your data. If you outgrow a plan, upgrade and the tree you already built comes with you. Nothing is deleted when you hit a limit — you are asked to upgrade before adding the next person.
Yes. Import a GEDCOM file (.ged), the format most genealogy apps export, or a CSV. People and their relationships land on your canvas so you are not starting from a blank page.
On the Forest plan, yes. Export CSV, JSON, or GEDCOM and open it in another genealogy tool, or keep the file as your own copy. Your tree is not locked inside RootedIn.us.
The tree is private, payments go through Stripe, and passwords are stored only as a hash. You can turn on two-factor authentication for the account. Chat messages are sent to our AI provider so Root It can answer — that is the only reason they leave the app. We never sell family data, and you choose what to record about someone who is still living.
Delete any person from the tree whenever you want. To erase the account, request deletion and confirm the email we send. That removal is permanent. You can also clear the family data and keep the login. Read the terms if you want the full account rules.
