We’re putting the finishing touches on a family-history workspace that keeps the stories, sources, and uncertainties behind the tree together.
Register your interest For existing Leaves accounts
Leaves / 001Built for the part of genealogy that starts after the names are entered: finding the source, keeping the doubt, and making room for another researcher.
Leaves is where you organise and examine genealogical research you already have or discover. It gives the tree a visual shape, but keeps the evidence behind it close enough to question.
These are faithful drawings of screens and behaviour already in Leaves, using fictional family data. Each starts with an ordinary research task rather than a feature name.
Use the visual tree to understand how people connect and choose a point of interest. The tree is a route into the research, not a replacement for the person and family records underneath it.
Tree · three generations
1850–1921
about 1852–1919
1878–1955
no dates
A parish register can support a baptism strongly and an occupation tentatively. Leaves records those as separate citations, so changing your mind about one claim does not quietly weaken every other fact drawn from the same source.
Person · evidence
Open a source to see its repository details and a reverse index of every citation that points to it. One register can support several claims for several people, each with its own page reference, transcription and confidence.
Source · reverse index
Dordrecht parish register, baptisms 1846–1861
Regionaal Archief Dordrecht · inv. 11-4028
One source · three citations · three confidences
Enter an exact day, an approximate date, a range, a period or the words the record used. Leaves preserves that shape instead of forcing a guess into a field that looks more certain than the evidence is.
Date · the shapes it takes
Stored as structure · read back in words
Record a place once, optionally look up its address and coordinates, and reuse it across births, marriages, residences and deaths. Its reverse index shows the people and events connected to it before you rename, merge or delete it.
Place · what happened here
Dordrecht, South Holland, Netherlands
51.8133° N · 4.6901° E
Events using this place
One place · three events · coordinates optional
Upload scans, photographs, PDFs, audio or video; add a caption and date; then link each item to the people, places, families or facts it depicts or supports. Unlinked files stay visible so they can be filed later instead of disappearing into a folder.
Media · scan and its links
Verschoor family register · fol. 42v
image · 4.8 MB · captured 14 May 1874
One file · three links · original preserved
Bring in GEDCOM 5.5.1 or 7, a GEDZIP with media, or GEDCOM X as JSON, XML or a .gedcomx archive. The finished import counts what arrived and names records that need attention; unsupported GEDCOM lines are kept for export instead of silently discarded.
Import · the report
Worth looking at
Nothing was thrown away · 14 custom tags kept
Invite someone as a viewer, editor or admin. They work in the same project, while their role and the living-person setting decide what they can change and which sensitive details they may see.
Project · who has access
Owner · admin · editor · viewer
The beta is a connected research workspace. These areas share the same people, families and evidence rather than becoming separate files you have to keep in step.
Leaves imports GEDCOM 5.5.1 and 7, GEDZIP and GEDCOM X in JSON, XML or .gedcomx archives. Exports use GEDCOM 7. Unsupported imported GEDCOM lines are preserved where the importer supports round-tripping them. Project export is available on every plan, including Free and after a paid term ends.
That is a promise: Free is not a trial and will not become one. It has no card, no expiry, 1 project and 250 MB for scans and photographs. Pro is for power users who need unlimited projects, more storage and collaboration; it is planned at €4.99 a month or €49 a year including VAT. Billing is not open today. Leaves has no advertising, and no plan puts export behind payment.
Register your interest in the beta. We will use the address you provide to contact you about beta access; it does not create an account or start a subscription.
