What’s new on My rOoOts

Each person on a public tree now gets their own page showing who they are, who they are connected to, and the exact chain of relationships back to the rest of the family, instead of a list of names repeated three times over.

Public trees of well known families now show properly credited photographs sourced from Wikimedia Commons, so the tree reads as a record of real people rather than a diagram.

The tree on a public family page now opens at a readable zoom with a bottom control dock and a full screen mode, rather than fitting a hundred people on screen at once and leaving you to hunt.

The gift studio turns any tree into a print ready poster in one of nine designs, or into a family history book written chapter by chapter from the names, dates and stories already in the tree.

Send a relative one short question a week (where they grew up, how they met, what a grandparent was like). They answer in their own voice or in writing, from a link, with no account needed, and the answer is saved onto their profile for good.

Work out how you are related to someone in the kinship finder, then turn that answer into a real family tree in a single tap, with everyone on the path already placed.

Send a cousin a link and they add their own side of the family: their spouse, their children, their parents. Nothing joins your tree until you have reviewed and approved it.

One bottom toolbar instead of scattered controls, a starting zoom you can actually read, tap a card to add someone next to it, and a plain person list view for when the canvas is more than you need.

The kinship finder covers more of the world's family vocabularies, so the term it gives you is the one your family actually uses.

Every person on a public tree now carries a claim button. The tree's owner reviews the claim, and once they approve it the profile is linked to your account.

Add as many photographs as you like to anyone in your tree, each with its own caption, viewed full size in a lightbox.

Every public family now has an album page collecting all of its photographs in one place.

Open a summary of how complete your tree is: who has no dates, who is not connected to anyone yet, and where a generation is missing.

Adding a new person through the relationship picker now records the relationship straight away, instead of leaving you to link them afterwards.

Editing someone no longer resets their photograph back to the illustrated placeholder.

Large trees now draw the part of the family you are actually looking at, with expandable cards at the edges to walk outwards. Tested against an imported tree of 11,700 people, and there is no need to split a big family into separate trees to keep it working.

Found a public tree that is your family's? Ask for it. Once the request is approved the tree, and everything in it, becomes yours to edit.

Transfer a tree you own to another account, for when the family historian changes.

A short, anchored walkthrough on your dashboard and on the tree canvas, pointing at the thing it is describing. It appears on your first few sign-ins and then gets out of the way.

Downloading a tree you started as a guest no longer puts a sign-in wall in front of it.

Upload the GEDCOM file exported by any genealogy program and the tree appears immediately, with no account and nothing to install.

Take the tree away as a PDF, ready to print or send on.

Look up what you would actually call a relative in your own family's language, rather than settling for 'first cousin once removed'.

The iOS Files picker no longer greys out .ged files, and files with unusual characters in them stopped coming through garbled.

A directory of family trees shared publicly by the people who built them, each one explorable person by person.

A chat bubble on every page. Ask a question, get a reply, and carry on with what you were doing. Replies reach you by email too, so you do not have to sit and wait.

A file you uploaded is kept, so you can come back to it, start over, or sign in to unlock the full tree without uploading it again.

Generate an embed for your tree or fan chart and drop it into any website or blog, with control over zoom, direction and how many generations show.

Import members by pasting JSON directly, without first saving it to a file.

A plus button on any person's card adds a parent, sibling, spouse or child right there, already connected.

People without a photograph now get an illustrated portrait suited to their age and gender, so a half finished tree still looks like a family.

Download a blank family tree chart as a PDF to fill in by hand, useful for asking older relatives to write down what they remember.

Surname meaning lookup, gotra lookup, a baby name generator and a DNA relationship chart, all free and with no sign-up.

Four more free calculators, joining the relationship calculator and ancestor timeline generator. No sign-up, instant results.

The growing list of tools is now sorted by what you are trying to do, rather than presented as one flat list.

Create a read only link to your tree, your fan chart, or a tree you built before signing up, and send it to anyone.

Paste a share link into WhatsApp or a message and the preview shows a real picture of your tree, not a generic logo.

Record a birth or death as just a year, for when that is genuinely all anyone knows.

See your family as a fan radiating from any person you choose, switching between their ancestors and their descendants.

Add a photograph to anyone in your tree and crop or rotate it in place. Works whether or not you have signed up yet.

The family tree canvas was rebuilt for phones, and a person's profile opens as a centred card rather than a cramped side panel.

Start a family tree straight from the homepage with no account. When you are ready to keep it, create an account and the tree you already built comes with you.

The platform is now My rOoOts, with new branding throughout.

Guides on tracing a family line, reading old records, and understanding how relatives are named across different cultures.

Spouses sit together as a unit and children hang from the marriage between them, which is how a family tree is meant to read.

Very large sets of siblings fold up instead of stretching the tree sideways off screen, and lines no longer cross each other on their way between generations.

The tree now rejects a relationship that would make someone their own ancestor, rather than quietly drawing something that cannot exist.

Export your family as CSV or JSON, relationships included, so it can be opened elsewhere or kept as a backup.

Bring a family in from a spreadsheet with parents, spouses and children linked up on the way in, instead of as a flat list of names.

An email a week ahead and again on the day, for every birthday in your family, plus a notification bell in the app.

See what has changed across your families: who was added, what was edited, which relationships were drawn.

Skip the password entirely.