About This Site | My Family Tree .Site

It started with a mind map

I just wanted to document names and relationships, starting with my grandparents and moving forward to the current generation.

and Facebook messaging
with a distant cousin

We rarely connected. We were mostly Facebook “Friends” because we shared the family name. But we started to share information. I shared the tree and she offered enhancements. We got addicted. We truly connected. We started exchanging notes all the time.

I looked around for a place to put the tree for other family members

Common genealogy sites are big corporate businesses – and they have similar subscription fees. There are lots of comments all over the internet about how people love and hate these services. I just wanted something simple.

Here we are

The site you see now is the “main” site

This website is where you get information about this platform. It’s a jumping off point to your family site.

Your family site is created just for your family

So far we’re offering two site styles, a simple one that gets the job done, and another one that has more features that geneaology fans tend to like. Choose the style that you prefer.

It’s your data

It’s really important to understand that you can take your data and move it elsewhere anytime you want. We don’t get involved with your data. There are no programs processing names, no extraction to other databases, no sharing of any kind of statistics between environments. We’re keeping it all simple and private, just like you would probably do if you set this all up yourself or if someone in the family did it.

And a bit more

We’re doing backups, monitoring security, updating software, and all of those other boring things that are required in a website. We’ll keep the lights on so that you and family can do whatever you want in your own space.

There’s not much else

We’ll try to keep it interesting with some new features and options, but the whole point here is to keep it simple. If you wanted complex you’d be on one of those other big sites now. So we’re offering a little less, or at least the option to leave features off until you want to try them. And we think that’s sometimes a better option than razzle and dazzle.

Of course, your satisfaction is our top priority. We’ll have surveys and Q&A and other ways to listen to your feedback so that we can keep improving this into a place that all of us continue to love.

Maybe we should have called it FamilyTreeLite?

We really hope you stick around with us.
Be a part of our family.
Let’s see how this develops.