Not a tree builder.
A research studio.
Genealogy software for people who care about evidence.
FamilyLegacy gives you six navigation modes, 54 chart types, 40+ publication-quality reports, an evidence and hypothesis engine, DNA analysis, and AI that reads your actual documents — all stored in a single file on your Mac that never touches a server.
Your data never leaves your Mac. No account. No cloud.
Everything serious genealogists need.
Nothing they don't.
Six modes to view your data. A classic three-pane interface for daily research. An interactive tree canvas for exploration. Timeline, atlas, relationship, and pedigree views for different questions.
The interface PAF users will recognise. With everything they were missing.
Left column: pedigree. Centre: family group. Right: individual details with live editing. Events, sources, notes — all there without opening a separate window. Switch to tree mode for an interactive canvas. Switch to timeline for lifespan bars across a multi-decade axis. Six views. Same data.
- Classic three-pane layout, familiar to PAF, Legacy, and Heredis users
- Interactive pedigree canvas with pinch-zoom and mini-map
- Timeline view with relational arcs showing marriages and family connections
- Atlas mode to see all relatives laid out spatially by relationship
54 chart types. Output you can actually hand to someone.
Pedigree, descendant, bowtie, ancestor circle, geographic migration, kinship matrix, chromosome browser, surname survival tree, social witness network — each fully customisable and exported to vector SVG. Large charts stream to disk rather than loading into memory, so a 10-generation chart with 3,000 people renders without complaint.
- 54 distinct chart types — not 54 variations of one fan chart
- Custom generations, density, colour scheme, label collision handling
- Export to SVG, PDF, and print-ready layouts up to 8000px wide
- 40+ report formats: Ahnentafel, register, family group sheet, brick wall summary, and more
Hypothesis tracking aligned with the Genealogical Proof Standard.
Attach sources to events, grade each piece of evidence on the standard quality scale (original, derivative, authored, negative), and build competing hypotheses for the same ancestral question. A continuous quality scan checks impossible chronologies, implausible ages, events without sources — and gives you a clear score out of 100.
- Evidence items graded: original · derivative · authored · negative
- Build hypotheses, attach supporting and contradicting evidence, track status
- Quality center runs continuously — impossible dates, missing sources, duplicate clusters
- Disposition system: mark findings as resolved, not an issue, or fix later
DNA analysis and AI that
reads your documents.
Not a DNA testing service. Not a chatbot bolted onto a form. Tools for researchers who already have data and need to make sense of it.
DNA matching and analysis
Connect DNA kits from AncestryDNA, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA, or MyHeritage. Shared centimorgans, ISOGG relationship predictions, chromosome-level segment data, Leeds method clustering into four colour-coded groups, and an X-inheritance path analysis. Your matches placed directly onto a pedigree chart overlay.
AncestryDNA · 23andMe · FTDNA · MyHeritageAI research assistant
Ask questions about your database in plain language. Generate narrative biographical summaries. Evaluate evidence, detect inconsistencies, normalise place names. Every response cites specific people and events in your actual tree — not a hallucinated biography. Can run fully offline with a local model; no data ever needs to leave your Mac.
Grounded in your data · Fully offline optionDocument OCR — drag and index
Drag in a photograph of a church register, a census page, a handwritten letter. The Vision framework (macOS native) extracts text, identifies entities — people, places, dates, relationships — and indexes them automatically. Your scanned documents become searchable parts of your research.
macOS Vision · Runs locally · No upload requiredGuest collaboration — pull request style
Create a review session, share a link with a relative or colleague. They submit suggestions — corrections, additions, questions. You review each one, accept or reject it, and accepted changes go into your database with a full audit trail. Not Google Docs. More like a pull request workflow.
Full audit trail · You decide what goes inSimple, honest pricing.
Start free. Upgrade when the research gets serious.
- Core research workspace — all 6 views
- Up to 50 family members
- GEDCOM import
- 3 photos per person
- Basic quality scan
- Source citations and notes
- Full chart library (54 types)
- 40+ report formats & print studio
- AI assistant & document OCR
- DNA kit analysis
- Hypothesis tracking
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited family members
- Full chart library — all 54 types
- 40+ report formats and print studio
- AI research assistant (local or remote)
- Document OCR — drag and index
- DNA kit analysis (4 providers)
- Hypothesis tracking and evidence grading
- Guest collaboration sessions
- Unlimited photos and documents
- Priority support
Ready to do serious research?
Download free. Your data stays on your Mac from the first click. No account required, no cloud service, no subscription needed to start.
Requires macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon and Intel supported