Our Family vs RootsLore

Every family has a story. Start yours today with Family Roots, the beautiful and intuitive way to map your lineage, share your heritage, and preserve your family’s most treasured memories across generations. Whether you are just beginning to trace your ancestry or you are the designated historian of your family, Family Roots provides a modern, interactive space to bring your family’s history to life. Key Features: Build Your Legacy Easily create dynamic family trees. Start with yourself and grow your branches by adding parents, grandparents, siblings, and extended relatives. Choose between our Structured View for detailed records or our expansive Visual Tree to see your entire lineage at a glance. Beautiful, Modern Design Genealogy doesn't have to be complicated. Our sleek, distraction-free interface puts the focus directly on your family and your stories, making mapping your ancestry a joy rather than a chore. Shared Family Gallery A tree is more than just names and dates. Upload historical photos, precious documents, and cherished memories to the Family Gallery. Keep your family's visual history safe and accessible for younger generations. Invite & Collaborate Family history is a shared journey. Seamlessly invite family members to view your tree, explore their roots, or collaborate as editors to contribute their own knowledge, photos, and missing branches. Private & Secure Your family's data belongs to your family. With secure authentication and private sharing options, you can trust that your family’s legacy is safely preserved and only visible to the relatives you choose to invite.

RootsLore turns scattered family memory into a living, time-lapse map. Add the people you remember — names, years, and the places that defined their lives. RootsLore plays it all back as an animated map, so your whole family can watch two centuries of shared history unfold across the world. — RECORD WHAT MATTERS Add birthplaces, residences, marriages, and graves. Every field is optional — start with just a name, fill in details as you go. City names look up coordinates automatically; pins are always hand-editable. — TWO VIEWS, ONE STORY Switch between a time-lapse world map and a generational family tree. Select any person and both views sync. Watch migration arcs trace the paths your ancestors walked. — BUILT FOR REAL FAMILIES A flexible relationship graph supports any family structure: unknown or non-binary parents, multiple marriages, remarriage, adoption, and unlinked branches. A person with no data shows as "Unknown" rather than blocking entry. — SHARE WITH ONE LINK Drop a link in the family group chat. Anyone can open the map — no account required. Invite specific family members to help build it together. — A DIGITAL HEIRLOOM Manual input isn't a limitation — it's the soul of RootsLore. The record you build here is one no database in the world holds. It's yours to preserve for the next generation. Where was your grandmother born? And her mother? And hers? Most of us only know two generations back. RootsLore is for the third. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rootslore.com/en/privacy