Begin with your people
Add yourself, parents and close relatives. Dates can be exact, approximate, or remembered through an event.
Your people · Your history · Your home
Every family has a story.
Preserve the names, memories, places and relationships that make your family yours — together, across generations and borders.
Private by default. Your family decides what is shared.
Amina NyandengGrandmother
Lado WaniFather
Malaika LadoFamily historian
People Stories Places
Private by designGranular visibility for living people
Made for real familiesMultiple spouses, clans, guardians & more
Built for every connectionThoughtful on mobile and slow networks
20+ private family networksGrowing carefully with Roots
Built together
Your family archive, one memory at a time.
Begin with what you know. Invite the people you trust. Roots helps your shared picture grow without turning unverified memories into facts.
Connect every branch
Record maternal and paternal lines, multiple spouses, customary parents, households, clans and diaspora communities.
Keep their voices close
Preserve oral histories, profile photographs and the stories elders want future generations to remember.
A guided first session
See Roots in 40 seconds.
Follow the calm, privacy-conscious path from signing in to seeing the first branches of a family tree. Playback begins only when you choose.
No autoplay English captions Clear narration
Read the video transcript
How to use Roots in under 40 seconds.
First, select Sign in and open the secure Magic Link sent to your email.
Next, create your family network and choose a clear, familiar name.
Add the first person. Start with yourself or a relative and include only what you know.
Then add one relative and connect them with a parent, partner, child, or sibling relationship.
Open the family tree to see each branch take shape.
Add photographs and stories, invite trusted relatives, and let your shared history grow carefully.
Roots. Your people, your history, your home.
Privacy is kinship, too
Your family’s history belongs to your family.
Living people deserve special care. Roots gives each network and each record clear controls, while disputed and unverified information stays visibly qualified.
Family-only networks
Consent-aware media
Verification trails
No public living-person search
A privacy-safe example
See the family, not a generic chart.
This fictional family shows how Roots keeps a customary partnership, shared children, sibling branches, and verification context understandable.
An account is not a person record.Your account controls access and collaboration. A person profile preserves someone’s place in the family. An invitation can securely link the two after that person accepts it.
Living family archive
Family rooted at Malaika
Relationships and generations are calculated from the selected family root.Family at a glance
How Malaika connectsHeritage map7 people · 3 generationsFictional example · no real family data
1
Grandparents’ generation2 people
Amina NyandenggrandmotherIn memory · 1936–2018Elder confirmed
Customary marriage1958–2018Deng AkolgrandfatherIn memory · 1932–2018Document supported
2
Parents’ generation3 people
Nyla DengmotherBorn about 1963Family confirmed
PartnershipSince 1987Lado WanifatherBorn 1960Family confirmed
Adut Dengmaternal auntBorn about 1968Elder confirmed
3
Your generation2 people
Malaika LadoFamily rootBorn 1991Profile linked
Bol LadobrotherBorn 1993Family confirmed
Bring your family’s story home.
Start with one person. Grow it together.
Start your family tree