Tools for Family History. Built to Last.
WordPress Genealogy Solved
Elegant WordPress tools for genealogy, archives, and family history.
Free GEDCOM import · PHP 8.0+ · WordPress 6.0+ · powerful SHORTCODES AND DISPLAY BLOCKS · Your data, your site
THE ANCESTORPRESS SUITE
One family history. A suite of tools built around it.
Family history doesn't happen in one place. There's the research - certificates, censuses, notebooks, theories, dead ends. There's the record of what you've proved. And there's the version you share with your family and the world. Most software forces all of that into one box, or scatters it across subscriptions you'll never fully own.
AncestorPress takes a different approach: a suite of WordPress plugins, each built to do one job properly, all working from a single shared family history stored in your own site's database. Research in one tool, curate in another, publish and display wherever you like - and because every plugin reads the same data, nothing is ever re-entered, exported between products, or trapped when you change your mind.
Each plugin stands alone and is free to install. Together they become something no subscription service offers: a complete, permanent home for your family's history that you own outright - on your own site, in an open format, exportable any day you choose.
Start with Family Trees today. The rest of the suite is on its way...
A growing family of tools for genealogy on WordPress
Family Trees - Family Charts for WordPress
Display interactive family trees anywhere on your WordPress site. Import your GEDCOM, place trees in posts and pages with a block or shortcode, or link any name to a full profile page. Living relatives stay private by default. Free to install, with advanced charts and display options in the paid edition.
Family Archive - Now Available
Your family history as a complete, curated website: person pages, surname indexes, search, timelines and reports. Conclusions only, every fact sourced, living people protected. The WordPress-native successor to classic genealogy sitebuilding software. Free to install; the paid edition adds media galleries, branches, reports and a TNG importer.
One-Place Studies - Now Available
The history of one place - a parish, village, street or house - told through the records of the people who lived there. A searchable occurrence index, place and household pages, a surname index, CSV import with reusable templates and full export. Free to install, with study roles, the Study Report, archive restore and research tools in the paid edition.
One-Name Studies - Now Available
Designed for one-name studies: one registered surname and all its spellings. Manage variants and deviants, log every occurrence wherever you find it, analyse distribution across the historic counties, and publish your study properly on a site you own. Free to install, with the worldwide distribution map in the paid edition.
Family Research- Coming Soon
The private workbench behind the published history. Capture certificates, photos, notebook pages and stray notes as fast as you find them. Let AI transcribe and connect them. Organise everything around research questions and brick walls, then promote proven conclusions into your archive with citations attached. Never public. Always yours.
Casework Manager - In Development
If you are a professional genealogist, you need a place to manage and share your client projects. Casework Manager will help you on-board new clients, agree targets and report on progress all in a private portal that keeps client family history secure.
GEDCOM First
Import your existing data
Bring data from Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch or any GEDCOM-compatible software. No manual re-entry.
Built for WordPress
Native and compatible
Standard WordPress patterns, compatible with any theme. No page builder lock-in, no external dependencies.
Your Data
Yours completely
All data stays in your own WordPress database. Nothing sent to external services. Export it whenever you like.
Get Started
Ready to put your family history online?
Install Family Trees free in minutes. Or register your interest in Family Research.
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