FamilySearch Tree

FamilySearch International

About this app

Your family history is the story of you. The FamilySearch Tree app makes it easy to add to, edit, or share your own family’s history anywhere you can take a phone or tablet. Since the app syncs with the FamilySearch website, changes or additions you make are available on any device.


Family Tree—View, add, and edit information about your ancestors. Enhance your tree by adding photos, stories, and documents.


Tasks—See which ancestors FamilySearch has already found in historical records and get ideas for what to do next.


Search Historical Records—Find your ancestors in the billions of records on FamilySearch.org to learn more details of your family story.


Relatives Around Me—See how you are related to nearby FamilySearch users that are also signed in to the app. This is a fun activity at your next group meeting, party, or event.


Map My Ancestors—Explore your heritage in maps that show where the key events of your ancestors’ lives took place.


Messages—Communicate and collaborate with other FamilySearch users from within the app.



NOTE: Content you provide for deceased individuals will be publicly available. See our privacy policy for more details.

Ratings and reviews

Nice app, but not as helpful as its closest competitor. You can enter info, but it is subject to hordes of people who, if you don't enter the information they think is correct, they are quick to let you know. Geneology is thousands of years old and subject to error the farther one goes. Plus, their competitor gives you options to research an ancestor. Both are good, but the competitor is better. Mine is just my opinion and not intended to disparage any contributor. You decide which is bat 4 u.

It's a pretty good app. There are inaccuracies, but you can get a place to begin. If you locate info that's isn't there, and for example, add it to the wrong place or person, it's almost impossible to correct sometimes. The app itself is buggy lately and I have to sign in again every few minutes, often. That's so aggravating when attempting to research, refine, compare, etc. After all, what's the point in an app when I could likely do better just signing in to the site through a browser?

It is a great option for working on your family tree from anywhere right on your phone. But the download doesn't work, it doesn't give enough options if name at beginning isn't same as who you want to connect to the source and even when the names of family members are already listed it only connects to a few and wants you to click and place the other names from source only that doesn't work properly as it is almost impossible to do. But all in all it is a good app to have.