Every family tree app gives you the skeleton. Genealogic gives you the flesh: the wars, the famines, the migrations, the small shop on a street that no longer exists.
"My great-grandfather had a grocery shop in Rotterdam.
Was his street hit in the 1940 bombing?
How did a greengrocer survive the Hunger Winter?"
These questions are answerable. The data exists in city archives, digitised newspapers, and war documentation databases. But the sources are scattered across dozens of institutions, hard to access, and require expertise to interpret.
Genealogic makes the connection. Automatically.
A collaborative family tree where every family member contributes. Sources are required per claim. Every edit is traceable. Conflicting information is flagged, never silently overwritten.
AI places each person in their historical reality. Occupation + location + year tells us which war they lived through, which economic crisis hit their trade, which epidemic swept their city.
A readable narrative built from verified facts and historical inference, clearly distinguished. Not invented. Not generic. Specific to your ancestor's time, place, and life.
Genealogic scans digitised archives, newspapers, and historical records to place your ancestor in the real world. Not a biography invented by AI. A context built from verified sources.
Jan's shop on the Gaffeldwarsstraat stood 380 metres from the boundary of the 14 May 1940 firebombing. The street survived, barely. During the Hunger Winter of 1944-45, greengrocers operated under strict rationing cards. Records from the Rotterdam City Archive show a J. de Vries listed among registered food traders on the Zuidplein distribution list, November 1944.
Origin knows your tree, your documents, and the history of the places your ancestors lived. Ask in plain language: "What happened on my great-grandmother's street during the war?" It answers with documented historical fact, not guesses.
The vision: an archive of every documented human — a living layer of intelligence that connects your family to the full sweep of history. We're building towards it.
Try Origin free →The classic generational view, collaborative and source-linked, built to handle the complexity of real families: adoptions, second marriages, half-siblings.
A force-directed graph of every connection: not just the direct line, but in-laws, cousins, witnesses on documents. See the full social network your ancestors lived in.
Where did your family live, and when? Migration lines, location heatmaps by decade, and the question every family asks: why did they leave?
Upload any photograph of an ancestor. On the Family plan, watch a ten-second animation appear: a soft smile, a blink, the wind catching a collar. The original stays untouched. The moving version renders alongside it.
Every other platform gives you a list of records and sends you hunting. Origin is different: it plans an investigation for a person you pick, searches Wikipedia, Dutch newspaper archives, civil registers and our own Knowledge Graph, cross-references what it finds, and writes you a citable case file — with every missing sibling, unlinked relative, and newspaper obituary surfaced as a proposal you can review in one click.
Every tree added, every document read, every place walked feeds one shared archival world. This isn't a list of features, it's an atlas of lives being restored, one family at a time.
Every family tree hits a wall — a missing parent, an unreadable scan, a face without a name. Genealogic turns those walls into open leads. Crack them for the thrill, or go pro and get paid for the ones that carry a cash bounty.
Browse other researchers' open leads and lend a hand. Earn XP, climb the solver levels, and build a public profile that proves your skill — no subscription required.
Browse open mysteries →Claim bountied leads, get paid straight to your bank via Stripe, and wear the Pro Researcher badge that puts your contributions first. Keep more of every bounty with the lowest platform fee.
Become a Researcher →Running a practice or archive? Genealogic Pro (€49/mo) gives you unlimited Origin AI + raw API access for integrations. Story Reports for a single deep-dive ancestor are also available à la carte at €9.99 each.
No credit card required. Free plan available forever.