A Family History · Rendered in Light
More than seven thousand kin — every surname a colour of light, every life a star, every marriage a bridge across the dark.
The whole family as a living cosmos. Drift through the constellation, search for anyone, watch the lines bloom — then dive into any surname's solar system.
Step inside one surname's line. The founding ancestor burns at the centre; every soul is a star on a ring of time, families clustered as their own constellations.
Make anyone the trunk. Their lineage branches into light — ancestors above, descendants below, the paternal line a bright gold spine running through time.
Step through the family one person at a time. Centre on a relative and the view glides to them — parents, children, kin arranged around you, a breadcrumb trail behind.
A dark earth glowing with family light. Every soul set at their birthplace — dense in the English Midlands, scattered to Ireland, Utah and beyond. Spin the globe, sweep the centuries, zoom into a single village.
Pick any two souls and see how the light connects them — cousins, great-aunts, shared grandparents — traced up the ladder of light to the ancestor where two lines become one.
Colour is meaning
Each surname burns its own hue. A colour never decorates — it names a line of descent through the dark.
Press play and watch the family unfold from its earliest light to today — stars igniting, lines bridging, ending on you.
The quiet archive — search every soul, read the surname histories and the stories behind the light.
It began as a GEDCOM file — six thousand names in plain text. Here it is something else: a planetarium of ancestors, where you can fall through the generations, anchor your own place, and walk the line back to the first traced light in 1504.
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