AI genealogy assistant
Turn old records into a family tree, with AI
Describe your family or upload photos of handwritten records, letters and documents. The FamilyBushes assistant reads them, finds every person, date and relationship, and builds your tree — you review every change before it is applied.
Reads handwriting
Photos, PDFs and GEDCOM
You approve every change
Everything a genealogist does by hand, faster
The assistant works inside your family tree: it reads, builds, edits, searches and checks, and leaves the decisions to you.
Reads handwriting and old documents
Birth, marriage and death records, church books, census pages, letters and handwritten notes. Everyone mentioned comes out with names, maiden names, dates, places and relationships.
Builds the tree for you
Describe your family in a sentence or two and get the people, parents, children and spouses connected. Unknown details stay empty for you to fill in, never guessed.
Edits in plain language
“Add my dad's three children from his first marriage.” It finds the right people — even “my dad” or “grandma” — and prepares the change.
Searches and explains
How are two cousins related? Who was born in the 1880s? Forgiving search finds people despite misspellings, missing accents and partial dates.
Finds gaps and inconsistencies
Missing birth dates, people without parents, duplicates and impossible dates, with a clear list of what to research next.
Files photos and documents
Portraits become profile photos and certificates become attachments on the right people. GEDCOM files import as a new tree in one click.
Try it with your own family
Pick an example to start from, or write your own above. Add a photo of a record to see it read.
How it works
Describe or upload
Write about your family, or add photos, scans, PDFs or a GEDCOM file.
The assistant prepares the changes
It reads everything and proposes new people, relationships and life events.
You review and apply
Check every change, adjust what you like, and add it to your family tree.
Built for genealogists and family historians
Research is the interesting part; retyping names from scans is not. The assistant takes care of the slow work — transcribing, matching people across documents and checking the tree for gaps — so you can spend your time on the research itself and on the stories behind the names. Your tree stays a real, interactive family tree you can share with relatives by link and keep editing by hand.
Transcribe old handwriting, in many languages and scripts, into structured people and events
Turn a pile of scans into a connected tree instead of retyping every name
Keep sources: certificates and photos stay attached to the people they are about
Ask questions across hundreds of people in plain language
Export everything as GEDCOM or .fbft whenever you like
Stop retyping old records
A single page of a church book can name a dozen people: parents, children, godparents, witnesses, with dates and villages. Instead of copying every name by hand, photograph the page and let the assistant read it — faded handwriting included. Everyone in it becomes a person or an event in your tree, and the photo stays attached as the source, so you can always check the original.
Questions
Yes. Upload a photo or scan of a birth, marriage or death record, a page from a church book or census, or a handwritten family note, and the assistant reads the old handwriting and printed text and turns the people in it into suggested changes to your tree. Old handwriting can be hard to read, so it notes anything it was unsure about, and you check every change before applying it.
No. It prepares changes — new people, relationships, names, dates and life events — and shows them to you first. Nothing changes until you press apply, and you can adjust anything before saving.
Photos and scans (JPEG, PNG, WebP and others), PDFs, plain text, CSV and GEDCOM files. A GEDCOM file can be imported as a new family tree in one click.
You can write to it in your own language and it answers in the same language. It also reads records written in many languages, and FamilyBushes itself is available in English, Lithuanian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Finnish and Turkish.
No. When you use the assistant, what it needs to answer you is sent to our AI provider only to produce that answer, under terms that do not allow training on it. If you do not use the assistant, nothing is sent.
Using the assistant uses AI credits. Every account gets some credits to try it, and Pro subscriptions include more: monthly plans every month, yearly and lifetime plans once. You can also buy credit packs at any time, and credits you buy never expire. Building and editing your family tree by hand stays free.
Start your family tree with AI
Tell it about your family or add a record. It takes a minute, and you can keep editing your tree by hand at any time.