Genealogies
FamilySearch Genealogies is a large directory of family trees, also known as lineages or pedigrees, that people and organizations have shared with FamilySearch. We organize the information into collections and make it available for you to search.
Explore one of our collections
Within them you'll find thousands of family trees submitted by individuals and professional organizations.
Search for a specific tree
Let us help you find the tree you're looking for. Enter a surname or place associated with the family, and we'll search for it in all of our collections.
Community Trees
An effort to gather and publish the genealogy for an entire town or community. These are family trees, along with their sources, from specific time periods and geographic locations around the world.
Oral Genealogies
Spoken lineages and histories from places around the world, especially Africa and Oceania. FamilySearch preserves the audio file and creates a family tree from its contents.
Guild of One-Name Studies
A project that focuses on specific surnames and the people who have held them.
Computer-Generated Trees
A collection of family trees created by a computer. The computer interprets historical records to construct a tree for a particular location and time-period.
MyTrees.com
A closed collection of family trees created by users at MyTrees.com before 2020.
RootsFinder
A growing collection of family trees created by users at RootsFinder. New information is periodically added to this collection.
American Ancestors
Family trees created by users at AmericanAncestors. The collection features genealogies with strong ties to the New England region of the United States.
Pedigree Resource File
A growing collection of GEDCOM files with hundreds of millions of names. If your family tree is contained in a GEDCOM file, please consider sharing it with FamilySearch so that other people can search its contents.
Ancestral File
A closed collection of family trees and other information submitted to FamilySearch before 2003. Search this unsourced data when more current information is not available.
How is FamilySearch Genealogies different from FamilySearch Family Tree?
Genealogies is a database of tens of thousands of personal family trees, lineages, and other histories. The FamilySearch Family Tree, by comparison, is a single tree or lineage for the entire human family.
