What Is Blaadline? The Story Behind the Name and Brand

If you arrived here searching for Blaadline and your search engine asked, "Did you mean bloodline?" — you are in the right place.

Blaadline is a free family tree maker and printable lineage chart designer. Here is where the name comes from, why we built it, and how it fits alongside your research.

Where the name comes from

Blaadline is a deliberate respelling of bloodline.

We wanted a name that was unique to us without losing what the word means. Change two letters and "bloodline" becomes a name that is distinct, but still says exactly what the product is for: a family's line, traced from one generation to the next, and charted clearly enough to keep.

So it is not a typo. It is the word you were thinking of, spelled our way.

Why we built Blaadline

Most genealogy software is built around research: searching records, collecting documents, matching DNA. That work matters, but it leaves a different job undone. Once you know your family, where do you lay it out clearly, keep it, and print it for the wall?

Blaadline is built for that job: a browser-based tool focused on a clear chart of your family and a print that does it justice.

1. Privacy First, by Default

Your family history belongs to your family. You can build and explore a tree in your browser without creating an account, every saved tree is private until you choose to share it, and Blaadline carries no advertising.

2. Complex Family Structures, Handled Gracefully

Real families include remarriages, men with more than one wife, half-siblings, and cousins who married each other. Blaadline records each marriage separately, places every child under the right one, and draws a cousin marriage as it is, with the wife shown both as her father's daughter and as her husband's wife.

3. Open Portability (GEDCOM Standard)

You are never locked in. If you have already researched your family in Ancestry, MyHeritage, or a desktop program such as Gramps, export your tree as a standard GEDCOM file and import it into Blaadline. You can export it back out as GEDCOM at any time.

4. True-Vector Heirloom Printing

A digital family tree is wonderful to edit, but a family chart truly comes alive when hung on a wall. Blaadline exports vector PDFs that stay sharp from A4 up to A1 poster size — ready for framing, family reunions, and gifts.

How Blaadline Fits With Your Research

Blaadline is designed to complement your genealogical research.

When you discover ancestors and historical records on research repositories, you need a clean, dedicated canvas to organize those findings and present them proudly. Blaadline provides that presentation layer — turning raw dates and names into a visual heirloom your children and grandchildren will cherish.

Try Blaadline Free

Whether you want to chart three generations for a reunion or map an extensive lineage across centuries, you can start charting right now:

• Open the builder — Start charting in your browser, with no account needed.
• About Blaadline — What Blaadline does, who can see your trees, and what is free.
• Explore Guides & Tutorials — Practical guides on printing, blended families, and relationship charts.