About Draw Family Tree

Draw Family Tree is a free family tree maker and a collection of printable family tree templates. It is a small independent project run from Spain by a photographer and designer who loves old family photos.

Many family tree sites ask you to create an account and upload your family's names and dates to their servers. This one does not. The charts are drawn in your own browser, your tree is saved on your device, and the PDF is created right there.

How the charts are made

Every chart is drawn as vector graphics, so it prints sharp at any size. Ancestors are numbered the way genealogists do it (your father is 2, your mother 3, and the parents of person n are 2n and 2n + 1), which keeps the family tree, the fan chart and the pedigree chart in step.

How the charts are checked

Before a chart goes live we generate the real PDF and open it to check for cut-off text, stray pages and connectors that miss their boxes. The relationships in the cousin chart are calculated rather than copied, and the genogram symbols follow the published references listed below. The sample families are invented. If you find a mistake, tell us and we will fix it.

Credits

PDFs are built with jsPDF (MIT license). Icons from Lucide (ISC license). The sample families are fictional. The old family records and portraits on the home page are public domain: The Coit Family, S. L. Holman, 1855/56; Medici family tree, Cornelis Cort, 1569; family of Joseph Smead, about 1861, US National Archives; Family Record Sampler, Emma H. Flint, 1827; Olazábal family, Ladislas Konarzewski, 1890s; illustrated family record, US National Archives; the Prime family, 1852, Library of Congress. Genogram symbols follow McGoldrick, Gerson and Petry's Genograms: Assessment and Treatment; ecomaps follow Ann Hartman's original design.

Contact

Ideas for new charts or a problem with the maker? Write to hello@drawfamilytree.com.