About
About Blaadline
A private, printable family tree builder and GEDCOM visualization tool designed to create high-resolution heirloom lineage charts.
Our purpose & features
- Build and edit a family tree in the browser, with or without an account
- Import and export GEDCOM 5.5.1 so your data stays portable
- Record real family shapes: multiple spouses, remarriages, half-siblings, cousin marriages
- Share a tree privately, by unlisted link, or publicly on Explore
- Export a print-ready vector PDF for framing or a print shop
Focused on visualization & print
While platforms like Ancestry and FamilySearch excel at historical record archives, Blaadline focuses on what comes next: turning your family research and GEDCOM files into beautiful, readable, and print-ready charts that you can frame and cherish. The chart follows a family's male line, the shape of a classical nasab: from whoever you select, it draws the father's line upward and that person's descendants below, and clicking anyone redraws it from them.
- Searching historical records or census databases
- Automated ancestor hints or DNA matching
- Multi-editor collaborative research workspaces
- Source verification against third-party archives
The name: Why “Blaadline”?
People discovering Blaadline sometimes ask if our name is a typo for “bloodline”. It is not a typo, but it is that word.
Blaadline is a deliberate respelling of bloodline: a name of its own that still says exactly what the product is about. A family’s line, from one generation to the next, charted clearly enough to keep.
Who can see a tree
- Private
- Only the owner. Default for every new tree.
- Unlisted
- Anyone with the link can read it; not listed on Explore or in the sitemap, and pages emit noindex.
- Public
- Readable and listed on Explore and in the sitemap.
Free vs Premium
Building, editing, sharing, and standard exports are free forever. Premium unlocks large poster dimensions (A3–A1), heirloom templates, and watermark-free vector exports.
Free
- Unlimited trees and individuals
- Start building immediately at /try — no sign-up wall
- GEDCOM 5.5.1 import and export
- Person profiles with vital events, notes, sources, and photos
- Publish unlisted or public share links
- Print-ready A4 vector PDF with a light Blaadline watermark
Premium
- Watermark-free PDF export
- Poster page sizes: A3, A2, A1
- Tree templates: Classic, Modern, Compact, Formal, Pedigree (both parents' ancestors)
- Advanced export filters (hide descendants, spouses, or childless spouses)
Your data
- GEDCOM import and export are free — your tree is not locked in.
- Saving is explicit in the builder; guests keep one tree in the browser until they save it to an account.
- Cancelling Premium never locks your trees: you keep building, exporting GEDCOM, and sharing on the free plan.
Support
Questions about your account, a tree, or Premium:
Try it with your own family
No sign-up wall. Open the builder, add the relatives you already know, and export when you are ready.
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