An explosion of new AI-written genealogy tree tools
Categories Tools Trees An explosion of new tree tools Post author By Jonny Perl Post date July 27, 2026 Over the past year, there has been a sudden proliferation of tools to help genealogists analyze and display family trees. Most of these tree tools are aimed at a broad family history audience, while others are designed for investigative genetic genealogy. In this post, I’ll look at some of these tools and also discuss the current landscape for web development in genealogy.
- ▪Categories Tools Trees An explosion of new tree tools Post author By Jonny Perl Post date July 27, 2026 Over the past year, there has been a sudden proliferation of tools to help genealogists analyze and display family trees.
- ▪Most of these tree tools are aimed at a broad family history audience, while others are designed for investigative genetic genealogy.
- ▪In this post, I’ll look at some of these tools and also discuss the current landscape for web development in genealogy.
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Categories Tools Trees An explosion of new tree tools Post author By Jonny Perl Post date July 27, 2026 Over the past year, there has been a sudden proliferation of tools to help genealogists analyze and display family trees. Most of these tree tools are aimed at a broad family history audience, while others are designed for investigative genetic genealogy. In this post, I’ll look at some of these tools and also discuss the current landscape for web development in genealogy. Why trees? No one should be surprised that genealogists want to build tools to visualize and interrogate family trees. After all, the family tree is at the heart of our work. And since we can export its data to GEDCOM, an easy-to-parse text format, there are endless possibilities for analysis and presentation.
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