A family tree shows the lineage. LifeCharted shows the life.
Build the personal life timeline that completes your family history research — every residence, career, migration, and milestone, organized by year and mapped by location.
The personal record your research needs
Family trees capture lineage. LifeCharted captures the life behind the lineage — every address, every job, every move, organized by year.
Every place you lived or traveled appears on an interactive world map — ideal for tracing the geography of your family's migration story.
Once your timeline is built, the AI can draft a written life history grounded in facts you've entered — useful for family history archives and personal records.
Download a Life Resume PDF and a written narrative — both structured for inclusion in family history books, genealogy archives, or estate planning documents.
Genealogists know records are incomplete. LifeCharted is built for that — "lived in Warsaw between 1948 and 1952" is enough to create a timeline entry. Exact dates are optional.
Send a read-only link to relatives anywhere in the world. No account required for recipients — they see your full timeline in a browser.
Where this fits alongside your research
Tree software records who descended from whom. It has no field for what a decade actually contained — the job, the illness, the move. Fifteen years of research can leave the people still alive as the thinnest entries in the file.
Poland to Chicago is four or five addresses and about twenty years. On a map with dates attached, it reads as a route; in a spreadsheet cell, it reads as a string.
The hard part of oral history is rarely the recording — it's the first twenty minutes. A structured interview asks one question at a time, at conversation pace, which is a lower bar than "tell me about your childhood."
Common questions
Yes — they serve different purposes. Family tree software documents who you descended from. LifeCharted documents what you personally lived — your career, residences, health, and relationships. The two complement each other.
Premium users can share a read-only link with anyone — no account required. You can also export a Life Resume PDF and a written narrative, both useful for family history archives.
LifeCharted is designed for one personal timeline per account. For documenting a relative, you'd use your account as a historical record project. The approximate-year feature is especially useful when exact dates are unknown.
Ten: Home, Education, Work, Sports, Health, Travel, Achievements, Pets, Military, and Publications. Each appears as a separate color-coded lane on the visual Gantt timeline. You can toggle lanes on and off for a focused view.
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