From your tree and memories to illustrated chapters, with sources you can check.
No finished family tree needed: you can start with what you remember. You don't have to know seven generations to begin.
Your whole first draft is free. No card needed.
Example: the family of Diana, Princess of Wales — built from public records Not affiliated with or endorsed by the families shown.
Frances Ellen Work was born in New York City in October 1857, a daughter of the stockbroker Frank Work, a protégé of Cornelius Vanderbilt.1 On 22 September 1880, at Christ Church, she married the Hon. James Roche; the divorce decree of 1891 gave her custody of their children.2
Every book is different. These pages are set from the public records of Diana's family.
For our grandchildren, so you always know where you come from.
You don't need a finished tree, or seven generations of names. If you have a family tree file, bring it; if not, start with what you remember.
One book, start to finish, in real screens of 7gens.
Bring a family tree file, photographs and documents, or answer a short interview. Everything stays in your family archive.
7gens writes every chapter from your archive, with the sources in the notes. You read it page by page.
Fix a date, rewrite a paragraph in your own words, or ask the AI editor to change a passage. Details the draft is unsure of are marked for you to check.
One click sets the pages again around your edits. Nothing is printed until you approve the layout.
Screens from the archive of the sample book, built from public records.
Everything you add — the tree, photographs, documents, interviews — stays in your family archive. Every book you make draws on it, so you never gather it all again.
Every branch you have researched, generation by generation, in one book.
Her life at the centre: her parents, the places she lived, her photographs.
One parent at the centre, following their side of the family back.
For a wedding anniversary or a milestone birthday, with a dedication in your own words.
Example covers. Each new book reuses what is already in the archive — nothing to upload or type again.
Your whole first draft — every chapter, as a watermarked preview — and one full rewrite.
No card needed.
More copies of the same book: $150 each in the same order, $179 each ordered later.
Renews every year until you cancel. Cancel any time — Family stays active to the end of the year you paid for.
Shipping is paid separately: the printer's price to your country, shown before you pay.
Finished PDFs stay downloadable after the subscription ends.
A database gives you records to search. 7gens turns your tree, photographs, documents and memories into a book to read: chapters about the people in it, the sources in the notes, your photographs beside the text — and, with the Family plan, a printed hardcover.
It can, so the book is made to be checked. The draft is written only from what is in your family archive — your tree, documents, interview answers and the records you confirm — and it doesn't fill gaps with guesses. Facts backed by a document or a confirmed record carry their source in the notes; anything less certain is written cautiously and marked in the editor for you to approve or correct. If your tree holds two different dates for one event, 7gens asks you which one to keep. You read the whole draft before you pay, and nothing is printed until you approve the layout.
You bring what only your family has: the names and dates you know (a family tree file, or answers to a short interview), your photographs and documents, and the stories you remember. 7gens can search open records for your ancestors and show you what it found, so you confirm or reject each match (the first search is free; later ones use research credits); add the history of the places and years your family lived through; draw maps and the family tree; and help you write requests to archives. It doesn't invent what it can't find, and it can't see records kept only on paper in archives or in subscription databases.
A real book, sized to what is known. A few names and one interview about the people you remember are enough for a first draft — the interview builds the tree from your answers. The book won't fill the gaps with guesses: what isn't known is left out or, for older generations, named as an open question. Each time you add a document, a photograph or a relative's memory, you can make a new draft from the same archive.
Yes, every word. Correct a date or a name, rewrite a paragraph in your own words, ask the AI editor to change a passage, or remove a chapter. Then set the pages again with one click, and approve the layout before anything is printed.
English and Russian. Your book is written in whichever of the two you choose.
It is yours. You can download your tree at any time as a GEDCOM file, and your photographs as a zip. Your family material is never used to train AI models, and we never sell it.
If you already have a family tree file (a GEDCOM), your first draft can be ready the same day. After that the pace is yours: read, correct, add what only your family knows. You can stop at any point and pick up later — everything stays saved. When the book is right, the hardcover is printed to order and shipped; delivery dates are the printer's estimates.
We'll write before the holiday order-by dates, so there's time to make your book.