A few things worth knowing.

OpenTree Press is a family tree workspace where you can create a tree from scratch or import an existing GEDCOM. It turns your research into a visual family archive that is easier to explore, map, print, share, and take with you.

The emphasis is not on accumulating the largest possible tree. It is on understanding and presenting your family history—without giving up control of it.

You do. Your tree is not valuable to us because we can trap it inside the app. It is valuable because we can help you do more with it.

You can download a complete portable archive at any time. It includes a GEDCOM containing your family record, the media files stored in opentree press, and a manifest that inventories the archive. You should not have to recover photographs one at a time or remain a paying customer just to keep practical access to your own family collection.

You can begin with a person and build your tree directly in opentree press, or import an existing GEDCOM. Most established genealogy services and desktop family-tree applications can export one.

A GEDCOM contains the structure of your tree: people, relationships, dates, places, notes, and source references. Photographs and document files are often separate from the GEDCOM itself, so they may need to be added separately.

• We use AI to solve the problem of low quality and missing images in family records. Upscale an older or smaller photograph so it holds up better in a physical print.
• Generate a period-aware illustration for a person based on their recorded dates, places, residences, and occupation. These make trees look more complete, especially in high quality print form.

No. You can create and edit your own family trees in opentree press. It does not provide automatic record hints, ancestor matching, or built-in people discovery. The purpose is to give you a useful, portable tree with easy access to photo restoration and high-quality print designs.

No. OpenTree Press is for making curated trees with the intention of generating print-quality higher resolution designs.

Whether you build here or import an existing tree, it gives you a focused place to move through it, see the geography of a family, create curated print designs, collaborate with relatives, and keep a portable copy of the work. You can also use it alongside the service where your research began without leaving your family history trapped there.

Yes, by exporting the tree as a GEDCOM file (genology standard file format) and importing that file into opentree press. The GEDCOM brings over genealogical data, but not necesarilly image and document files. We let you keep everything you build by offering full export options.

We offer a fast, visual family tree experience, plus interactive lineage maps built from the places and dates in your tree. Want to see the flow of your ancestors over time? We've built that.

The goal is for a large tree to remain responsive and legible instead of becoming a slow web of tiny boxes.

The print studio creates individual family-tree designs, including classic trees, pedigree layouts, fan charts, and ancestry maps.

You can order a poster or framed print directly, or download the full-size PDF and use the printer you prefer.

No. The research tools are meant to make useful sources easier to find, with an emphasis on official archives, libraries, nonprofits, and genuinely free public collections.

Some records may still have access restrictions or reproduction fees at their source. When a commercial service is useful, it should be an optional route—not the default answer to every search.

It means your family history should remain usable outside a single service. You own the data and media you bring here. Your work can be exported as a GEDCOM archive with the assets stored in opentree press, and your printable PDFs are ordinary files you can keep and print elsewhere.

It also describes the research posture: start with public and freely available sources instead of building another chain of subscriptions around family records.

Yes. A tree lives in a private workspace. Access is limited to you and the people you deliberately invite to it.