The tree
A family tree with the photographs already in it.
Genealogy sites are about the dead. This is about everyone — the people in your photographs, living and gone, with or without a login. Name someone in a picture and they exist. Say who their parents were and the tree draws itself.
People, not accounts
Your grandmother never had a password. She's in the tree anyway.
Most of a family never signs in: grandparents, small children, in-laws, the friend who was always there. Each has a page — a portrait, their dates, a note about who they were, and every photograph they appear in. Click any name, anywhere, and see all of it.
Helen Ashworth
1946 — · Mother of Tom and Sarah · Married to Jim, 1968–2019
Born in Wigan. Nurse, then ward sister, then everyone’s first call. Never once used a computer; has 214 photographs here and eleven recordings.
Two facts
Parents and partners. Everything else follows.
You only ever record two things: who someone’s parents were, and who their partner was. Siblings, grandparents, cousins and in-laws are worked out from those — because those are the two facts people are actually sure of. A former marriage is drawn as one, dashed, further out. The children hang beneath the parent they belong to.
See it from the top of any line, or from any one person looking up: both parents, all four grandparents, as far back as the archive knows.
- J
Jim Ashworth
1944–2019
HHelen Ashworth
1946–
- T
Tom Ashworth
1971–
PPriya Ashworth
1974–
- M
Maya
2004–
- S
Sam
2007–
- S
Sarah Okafor
1975–
DDan Okafor
1972–
- E
Ezra
2010–
Who's in this
Type a name. Pick from the list. Done.
Under every photograph: Who’s in this. Start typing and the family narrows to the match; if they aren’t in the archive yet, they’re added on the spot. No face recognition, ever — we hold no biometric data — and a good picker turns out to be faster anyway.
The first dance. Somebody’s phone, somebody’s shoulder.
Added by Priya · Helen’s 80th
Helen in her own voice
12 March 2026
0:41Tom
14 March 2026
She made me practise for a fortnight and still trod on my foot at the end. Best night of my life.
Portraits
Choose the picture. Click the face. Done.
Every person’s portrait comes from the archive itself, or a scan uploaded just for the purpose. Click where the face is, tighten the crop, and it’s right everywhere — the tree, the family page, the lists.
Common questions
- How is the family tree built?
- It is drawn from your own photographs. Under each picture you name who is in it, and people are added to the tree as you go, whether or not they ever sign in.
- Do you use face recognition?
- No. There is no face recognition and no biometric data is held. Naming people uses a fast type-and-pick list instead.
- Can people who never had an account be in the tree?
- Yes. Anyone who appears in the photographs can have their own place in the tree and their own page, with no account required.
Every photograph of Grandad, on one page. And underneath them, his voice.