ForeBranch turns a GEDCOM export into browsable family history pages on your WordPress site. Keep doing your research in your usual genealogy program, export a GEDCOM, and import it here to share it with responsive templates.

ForeBranch is a publishing layer, not a genealogy program. Editing, sourcing, and day-to-day research stay in your desktop or online software.

Features

Import GEDCOM 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.5, and 7.0 files
Three import modes when re-importing an updated file:
- Update tree: adds new people and updates matching people (same person IDs). Does not wipe the tree
- New / replace tree: deletes everything in that tree, then imports the file
- Add only: adds new people and families and leaves existing ones unchanged, including their events, sources, and media links
Public pages under /genealogy/ for the hub, people, families, surnames, sources, places, and search
Works with block themes (Full Site Editing) and classic themes
Hub statistics: people, families, surnames, sources, and places
Person and family pages show place names. Place pages show stored coordinates as text
Store coordinates for places manually (the plugin does not display a map)
Unlimited family trees
Living people are hidden from everyone except Administrators. A death date means the person is treated as deceased. With no death date, anyone younger than 120 years (the default, and adjustable) is treated as living. With no birth year, family clues are checked first; if those are inconclusive, the person is treated as living. Visitors see “Private” instead of the name, dates, and places
People can also be marked private in the admin. Visitors do not see their details
GEDCOM media records are imported (titles, filenames, and links). The image files themselves are not copied out of the GEDCOM; a GEDCOM only stores the file path

Privacy Policy

ForeBranch stores the genealogy data you import or enter in your WordPress database. It does not send personal or genealogical data to any external service.