RootSphere

Rootsphere helps you trace, document, and preserve your family's history — built with African genealogy in mind, where records are scattered across registries, churches, and family memory instead of a single searchable database. BUILD YOUR FAMILY TREE Add ancestors and descendants, link spouses and children, and see your whole family laid out generation by generation. Switch between ancestor, descendant, and pedigree views. COLLECT HISTORICAL RECORDS Upload birth certificates, marriage registers, cemetery records, military records, and more. Every document is OCR'd automatically so it's searchable and easy to cite. SEARCH SHARED RECORDS Look up marriage, birth, and cemetery records already contributed by the community, across countries and registries — and save any match straight into your own tree. COLLABORATE WITH FAMILY Invite relatives to your tree, post record-gathering tasks for others to claim, and verify each other's research so your family's history stays accurate. AI RESEARCH ASSISTANT Get suggested ancestors, generated timelines, and research recommendations that help fill in the gaps between what you know and what's still missing. SUPPORT FAMILY HISTORY IN AFRICA Rootsphere also lets you donate directly to fund record-gathering work — digitizing registries and cemetery archives that would otherwise be lost. Whether you're starting with just your own name or picking up decades of research from a relative, Rootsphere gives your family's story a permanent, shareable home.