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See your family differently.

Seven pillars, each with what it is, why it matters, what you control, and any real limitation.

Family tree and views

The tree is how you navigate; the profile is where the story lives.

What it is
An interactive tree with three ways to look at the same family: an immersive, animated view; a traditional pedigree chart; and a plain, accessible list.
Why it matters
Different people read a family differently — some want to feel the shape of it, others just want to find a name quickly.
You control
Which view you use, and — with Family Perimeter, below — how much of a large tree you see at once.
Limitation
The immersive tree view is built for browsing and discovery, not for dense, print-style pedigree charts of very large trees; the list view covers that case instead.

People and life stories

Every person has a real profile, not just a name and two dates.

What it is
A profile page for each person: relationships, key life events, places lived, education, occupation, and — where recorded — military service.
Why it matters
A family tree is more meaningful when it holds a life, not just a lineage.
You control
What goes on each profile, and who can edit it, based on the role you give each family member.
Limitation
Bloodline doesn’t verify facts against outside genealogy records — what a profile says is what your family has recorded.

Photos, documents, memories, and the Keepsake

The material that makes a person feel like themselves.

What it is
A photo gallery, a document archive (letters, certificates, records), short memories anyone can contribute, and the Keepsake — an AI-assisted illustrated biography woven from what your family has recorded.
Why it matters
Names and dates don’t carry a person’s voice. Photos, memories, and documents do.
You control
What gets uploaded, who can contribute a memory, and what a Keepsake edition includes — every section can be reviewed and edited by hand.
Limitation
A Keepsake narrative is AI-assisted writing based on your family’s own records, not an independently verified historical account — it should be read that way, and edited where it’s wrong.

Timeline and insights

The family, seen across time rather than one profile at a time.

What it is
A family timeline of life events, plus a set of insight cards — records the family holds, generations alive together, places the family has lived, and more.
Why it matters
Patterns and milestones that aren’t obvious from a single profile often are once you can see the whole family across time.
You control
Insights are computed from what’s already in your tree — nothing extra to set up, and nothing sent outside your family’s own data.
Limitation
Insight cards need enough recorded dates and details to say something meaningful; a sparsely-filled tree will show fewer of them.

Collaboration, invitations, and roles

A family archive is more complete when more of the family helps build it.

What it is
Email invitations with five roles — owner, co-admin, editor, contributor, and viewer — plus an activity feed showing what changed and who changed it.
Why it matters
Different relatives should be able to do different things: some should be able to restructure the tree, others should just be able to add a memory.
You control
Who gets invited, what role they receive, and — for anything a document adds automatically — the ability to review, correct, or remove it.
Limitation
Invitations go out by email only; there’s no public sign-up or way to join a family without being invited.

Family Perimeter for large shared trees

A personal lens on a tree that’s bigger than any one person needs to see at once.

What it is
A per-viewer setting that scopes your default view to the relatives closest to you — direct lineage, siblings, a bounded circle of cousins — with a clear, reviewable boundary.
Why it matters
A tree with hundreds of people can be overwhelming to browse; a Perimeter keeps the everyday view focused without deleting or hiding anyone from the underlying archive.
You control
Your own Perimeter setting, and you can always step outside it to see the wider tree — it never restricts what actually exists, only what’s shown by default.
Limitation
It’s a personal display preference, not a privacy or access control — roles and invitations are what actually govern who can see and edit what.

Import, deduplication, and export

Bring an existing tree in, or take yours elsewhere — on your terms.

What it is
GEDCOM import (the standard genealogy file format) with a review-before-apply screen, duplicate-person detection on both import and afterward, and GEDCOM export of your tree.
Why it matters
Years of prior genealogy work shouldn’t be trapped in one tool, and a family archive shouldn’t become a mess of duplicate records the moment it grows.
You control
Every import is reviewed before anything is applied — you choose which new people and updates to accept, and duplicate matches are flagged, never merged automatically.
Limitation
GEDCOM export currently covers people, relationships, dates, and places — not photos, documents, memories, or the Keepsake. A complete archive export (including media) is in progress and not yet generally available.

Bring your family in, at whatever pace fits.