कुल वृक्ष
Build your family tree
Record who you come from — names, years, native village, gotra and kul devta — then print it or save it. No account needed; nothing leaves your device until you ask it to.
Start with yourselfA worked example
The Sharma family of Barsana · Bharadwaja gotra · Barsana
Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and switch between ancestors and descendants. Dashed lines are adoptive, step or foster relationships.
13 people · 4 generations
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This is a sample. Start your own above — it saves to this device as you type, with no account.
Questions
- Is it free, and do I need an account?
- It is free and there is no account. You can open the builder and start typing straight away — nothing asks you to sign up, and nothing is behind a paywall.
- Where is my family tree stored?
- In your own browser, on the device you are using. It is saved as you type, so closing the tab or visiting another page will not lose it. Nothing is sent to DharmSetu unless you choose to. Because it lives on the device, clearing your browser data will remove it — use “Save a copy” to download a file you can keep or move to another device.
- Can I print my family tree?
- Yes. You can print it on one sheet, or as a poster spread across several sheets when the tree is too wide to stay readable on one. The printed sheet carries your family name, gotra, kul devta and native village as a header. You can also save it as a PNG image.
- What is a vanshavali or kul vriksha?
- A vanshavali (वंशावली) is a record of a family’s descent — who came from whom, generation by generation. Kul vriksha (कुल वृक्ष) means “family tree”. Traditionally these were kept by family pandits in handwritten registers; this tool is the same idea, kept by you.
- Can I record gotra, kul devta and my native village?
- Yes. The tree carries a gotra, a kul devta or kul devi, and a mūl gaon — the native village — and all three are printed on the sheet. For anyone who has died you can also record the shraddha tithi, by masa, paksha and tithi.
- Does it know Indian family words like ताऊ and चाचा?
- Yes, and it works them out for itself. Once you record who is whose parent, along with sex and birth order, it names each relative correctly — दादा from नाना, ताऊ from चाचा, बुआ from मौसी. English has one word for most of these; the tool does not flatten them.
- How many generations can I add?
- As many as you can remember. Trees of several hundred people work, and both an ancestors view and a descendants view are available from whoever you put at the centre.
- Can I share my family tree with relatives?
- Not yet by link. For now, download it as an image or a file and send that. Shared links are planned, and when they arrive the details of anyone still living will be kept off them — a family tree holds personal information about people who never agreed to publish it.