Your family’s story, beautifully kept.
GeneLink turns your WordPress site into a living family history archive — unlimited people, connected generations, and an interactive tree your whole family can explore.
You’re on the live demo — a fictional family of 471 people across six generations. It resets to a clean state every night, so click anything.
Your data is never capped.
The free edition gives you unlimited member profiles and relationships, forever. The paywall is on advanced capabilities — never on how many people you can add.
See it in action
Every screen below is the real GeneLink interface — the same one running this demo.
Explore generations at a glance
A zoomable, pannable family tree with lineage highlighting, collapse & expand, a minimap, and a mobile-friendly detail sheet. Focus any branch and follow the line.
Every life, in context
A clean, shareable lineage view lays out ancestors and descendants beside a vital-records sidebar that merges member fields and life events in chronological order.
Keep the faces with the names
Build albums per person and per occasion, with tagging, a lightbox, bulk actions, and granular visibility — so sensitive photos stay with the right people.
Bring your tree — and take it with you
Import from Ancestry, FamilySearch or Gramps with clear duplicate handling, safer defaults, and a reviewable import history. Export the whole tree back out anytime. Your data stays yours.
Everything you need to tell the story
Add people, connect parents, children and spouses, and present your family beautifully on the front end — on any theme.
Interactive family tree
A zoomable tree with lineage highlighting, a minimap, compact mode, and a mobile detail sheet.
Lineage & vital records
A shareable multi-generation lineage view with a vital-records timeline sidebar.
Smart member search
Phonetic matching surfaces Calloway, Callaway and Caloway together — even when a surname drifted.
Front-end sign-up
Visitors can request access, claim a profile, and submit changes for moderated approval.
Family Groups
Role-based visibility lets you control exactly who sees what across the family.
Member broadcasts
Email your members — targeted by role, group or selection — with previews and delivery tracking.
GEDCOM import & export
Move your whole tree in and out of any major genealogy app, losslessly.
Data-quality tools
Merge duplicates, catch possible matches automatically, and clean up stray records.
Privacy for the living
Living people are protected automatically, with active-record enforcement throughout.
Free to start. Pro when you’re ready.
Keep unlimited profiles free forever. Upgrade to unlock the power features for serious family historians.
Free, forever
- Unlimited member profiles — never capped
- Parent, child and spouse/union relationships
- Shareable lineage view with vital records
- Member search and profile templates
- Works on any theme · custom SMTP email
GeneLink Pro
- GEDCOM import & export
- Interactive, zoomable family tree
- Photo albums & per-person media
- Front-end sign-up & community contributions
- Family Groups, member broadcasts & data-quality tools
Built right, for the long haul
Fast at scale
Modern PHP 8.1 OOP on its own custom database tables — not post-meta soup — so it stays quick even with large trees.
Security first
Prepared statements, nonce verification, capability checks and active-record enforcement throughout.
Tested every release
A large automated test suite (PHPUnit + Playwright) backs every release, so upgrades stay boring — in the best way.
Take it for a spin
This whole site is the demo. Browse the Calloway family tree, open an album, or run a search — then see how it would look as yours.