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Grow a family tree from your family history book.

Upload a scanned PDF of the book. A few hours later, download a first draft of the tree as a GEDCOM file, plus the full text and spreadsheets of everyone in it.Upload a scanned PDF of the book. A few hours later, download a first draft of its family tree.

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Example: an invented family
A scanned page from a sample book, with the Larkworth family marked on it and a small family tree growing out of it: Josiah Larkworth and Abigail Stoddard, married 1806, and their children Daniel, Mary, Samuel Stoddard, Mary Ann, Elisha and Henry Wells.Josiah LarkworthAbigail Stoddardmarried 1806Danielb. 1807Maryb. 1808Samuel Stoddardb. 1811Mary Annb. 1814Elishab. 1819Henry Wellsb. 1822 A scanned page from a sample book, with the Larkworth family marked on it and a small family tree growing out of it: Josiah Larkworth and Abigail Stoddard, married 1806, and their children Daniel, Mary, Samuel Stoddard, Mary Ann, Elisha and Henry Wells.Josiah LarkworthAbigail Stoddardmarried 1806Danielb. 1807Maryb. 1808Samuel Stoddardb. 1811Mary Annb. 1814Elishab. 1819Henry Wellsb. 1822
A scanned page from a sample book: the entry for Josiah Larkworth, his wife Abigail Stoddard and their children.

Josiah Larkworth Abigail Stoddard married 1806

  • Daniel b. 1807
  • Mary b. 1808
  • Samuel Stoddard b. 1811
  • Mary Ann b. 1814
  • Elisha b. 1819
  • Henry Wells b. 1822

What you get back

  • A family tree

    A GEDCOM file of parents, children and marriages, ready for the genealogy program you already use. Every person links back to the page they came from.

  • Two spreadsheets

    One row for each person on each page, with names, dates and places as printed. The second gives each person one row, pages combined.

  • The full text

    Every page typed out, so you can search the whole book.

How it works

  1. 1

    Get a scanned PDF of the book

    Many older family histories are already scanned and free to download from online libraries.

  2. 2

    Upload it

    There’s nothing to set up and nothing to install.

  3. 3

    Download your tree a few hours later

    With the full text and both spreadsheets.

A head start, not the final word

Old books have typos, and anything that reads them makes mistakes too. That’s why every person in your tree links back to the page they came from, so you can check before you rely on it.

Mary Ann Larkworth, a person in the sample tree, linked back to the line on the scanned page that names her.Mary Ann Larkworthb. 30 Sept., 1814

See an example

A page from a sample book, and what book2tree made from it. The family is invented, to show the format.

The sample page: the entry for Josiah Larkworth, his wife Abigail Stoddard and their six children.
The scanned page

Download the sample

In the spreadsheet

NameBornWhereDied

In the GEDCOM file


              
The highlighted lines cite the page this person came from.

            

          

        

      

    


    

      

        

          
          
Questions

        

        

          

            What kinds of books work?
            
Printed family histories and compiled genealogies that have been scanned to PDF, including
              the many older books that online libraries have already scanned.

          

          

            Will the results be perfect?
            
No. Treat them as a careful first draft. Every person links back to the page they came from,
              so you can check before you rely on anything.

          

          

            Which genealogy programs can open the GEDCOM file?
            
GEDCOM is the standard format for sharing family trees. Nearly every genealogy program and
              family tree website can import it.

          

          

            What will it cost?
            
Pricing will be announced before launch.

          

          

            When does it launch?
            
Soon. Leave your email
              and we’ll tell you the day it opens.

          

        

      

    


    

      

        


          
          
          
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