GeneaCanvas GEDCOM Family Tree turns a GEDCOM file into an interactive family tree on your WordPress site. Build a family history website, share your genealogy research with relatives, or add a pedigree chart to any page, without retyping a single name.

Export a .ged file from your genealogy software, upload it to the Media Library, and paste one shortcode. Visitors can then explore your family tree on desktop, tablet and phone: zoom, drag, search for a person, and open a profile with dates, places and close relatives.

There is no limit on the number of people or family trees.

View the interactive demo | Learn about GeneaCanvas PRO

Family tree features in the free plugin

Forest of Clans: Start with an overview of every family line, then open the clan you want to explore.
All People view: See the whole family tree at once, with or without repeated people who connect several branches.
Pedigree chart: Pick any person and show a direct line of their ancestors, without collateral lines.
Natural tree layout: An organic tree shape that keeps person cards from overlapping.
Dots for large trees: Show people as small dots to keep very large family trees fast and readable.
Search: Find a person by name and jump straight to their place in the tree.
Person profiles: Click a person to see birth and death dates, places, spouses, children and other relatives, and move from one relative to the next.
Line highlighting: Point at a person to highlight their family line.
Zoom controls: Use the on-screen + and − buttons, the mouse, or touch gestures.
Shortcode generator: Choose the starting view, layout, theme, expanded generations, height and titles, then copy a ready-made shortcode.
Works with your theme: Use the shortcode in the block editor, the classic editor, or any page builder that supports shortcodes.
Translations included: English, Polish, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

GeneaCanvas PRO for family history projects

Everything above stays free. GeneaCanvas PRO is a separate add-on for sites that need privacy, printing and richer family stories:

Privacy for living relatives: Dates, places and photos of living people are removed on the server and only appear after a family password is entered. You can also hide their first names.
Password for each shortcode: Protect the whole tree or only living people, separately on each page.
Hourglass view: Show the ancestors and descendants of a chosen person or marriage at the same time, and open it directly from a shortcode.
Kinship calculator: Name the relationship between any two people and draw the line that connects them.
Print-ready PDF and SVG: Export a sharp vector PDF for any paper size, or an image PDF up to 600 DPI, with portrait photos.
Portrait photos: Add photos to people, with frames, shapes and sepia or black and white styles.
Theme editor: Change colors, fonts and card styles of seven ready-made themes, or create your own.
Full GEDCOM data: Show occupations, life events, biographical notes and sources in the person profile.
Document gallery: Attach scans of certificates and other documents to a person.
Family statistics: Most common names and places, lifespans, generations and births by century, in the tree or with a shortcode.
Family anniversaries: Show upcoming birthdays and wedding anniversaries in a widget or shortcode, with optional email reminders.
Suggestions from relatives: Let family members send corrections, photos, occupations, notes and events for you to approve.
Clan filters: Show or hide clans by surname, ID or number of members for each shortcode.
Block and Elementor widget: Place a tree and set its options without writing a shortcode.
Priority support and automatic updates.

Works with popular genealogy software

GeneaCanvas reads standard GEDCOM 5.5 and 5.5.1 files, including exports from:

Gramps
RootsMagic
Family Tree Maker
MyHeritage
Ancestry
Legacy Family Tree
Ahnenblatt

Third-Party Libraries

This plugin includes D3.js 7.8.5 (ISC License) in minified form as js/d3.min.js. The source code is available at github.com/d3/d3.