The MyBloodlines Blog
How to record your family history in MyBloodlines: building the bloodline graph, how visibility and permissions work, and how to write the stories and add photos that belong to it.
Start recording your bloodline →What Is MyBloodlines? Record Your Family History
MyBloodlines is a private app for recording family history from memory — not researching it. See how people, stories, and photos connect in one graph.
How to Claim Your Profile and Start Recording
Claiming your profile is the first step in MyBloodlines. Learn what it unlocks and how to start recording your family history in just a few steps.
How to Cite Old Family Photos and Newspaper Clippings
How to cite an undated newspaper clipping or old family photo: date it with OCR and archives, cite by provenance when unidentifiable, and preserve the original.
How to Get Your Relatives to Help Record Family History
How to get family involved in family history: practical tactics to motivate relatives, reduce friction, and assign small tasks so it isn't one person's job.
How to Keep Your Family Tree Private (When Big Sites Don't)
How to make your family tree private: why FamilySearch and Ancestry expose your data, what private really means, and steps to protect your living relatives.
How to Preserve Your Family History: A Complete Guide
How to preserve your family history: a complete guide to recording stories, protecting privacy, sourcing old photos, and keeping a living family archive.
How to Preserve Family Stories Before It's Too Late
Preserve your family stories before it's too late: a simple starter plan for what to capture first, how to interview older relatives, and where to keep it.
The Best Private, Collaborative Family History App
Choosing a private collaborative family history app? Here's what to look for, how public trees and single-author tools compare, and where each one fits.
FamilySearch Is Public by Design: A Private Alternative
Looking for a private FamilySearch alternative? Here's why FamilySearch is a public worldwide tree, who it suits, and how to build a private family history.
Storyworth Alternatives That Let the Whole Family In
The best Storyworth alternatives for families: honest look at Storyworth's single-author limits and collaborative options your whole family can contribute to.
Family Tree Apps Compared (2026)
A 2026 feature comparison of family-tree-focused apps — MyBloodlines, Geni, WikiTree, and FamilyEcho — on structure, privacy, and relationships.
How to remove a user's access from your Bloodline graph in MyBloodlines?
To remove another user's access to your bloodline graph, either initiate claim removal or cut the relationship connecting their branch. Here's how each works.
How to build a family wiki with MyBloodlines?
A family wiki links people, stories, and photos so anyone can browse and search them. Here's how to build one in MyBloodlines and keep it private.
How to delete a person from your Bloodline Graph in MyBloodlines?
You can't delete a person directly in MyBloodlines. You abandon them by cutting their relationships, and the system removes abandoned people automatically.
Why MyBloodlines Has No Groups, Only People
MyBloodlines has no family groups or accounts that own a tree — only people and relationships, with access set per person. Here's why that design matters.
How to delete a relationship in MyBloodlines?
Relationship deletion is allowed only along your direct line, and it's a serious action: the other side immediately loses access. Here's what to know first.
How to add my in-laws in MyBloodlines?
Your in-laws sit outside your permission boundary, so you don't add them yourself. Your spouse claims a profile and expands their side. Here's how it works.
How can I see my spouse's bloodline history in MyBloodlines?
Your spouse's side sits in their own permission boundary, not yours. They can grant you read-only view access to see it. Here's how view access works.
Permission Boundaries in MyBloodlines
Your permission boundary is everyone you share a common ancestor with, plus their other-side parents. Here is exactly who that includes, and who it doesn't.
How to Write a Family Story and Link Everyone In It
Learn how to add a family story in MyBloodlines, link every person involved, attach photos, and see it appear across each person's profile automatically.
Add a Child When Parents Are From Different Bloodlines
Marrying into a different family? Joining two bloodlines takes three steps: add your child, connect the other parent by profile ID, wait for the accept.
MyBloodlines vs Storyworth: Memory & Legacy Apps
Looking for a Storyworth alternative? Compare MyBloodlines to Storyworth and other memory-keeping tools for capturing and preserving family stories.
Genealogy vs. Family History Recording Explained
Genealogy research and family history recording solve different problems. Learn what each optimizes for, who needs which, and where MyBloodlines fits.
Ancestry vs MyHeritage vs MyBloodlines
Ancestry and MyHeritage help you discover ancestors through records and DNA. MyBloodlines helps you record what you already know. Here's a fair comparison.
Best Family History & Genealogy Apps Compared (2026)
A clear comparison of genealogy research platforms, DNA tools, and family recording apps — including where MyBloodlines fits among the best in 2026.
People, Stories, Photos: One Interlinked Archive
Every person, story, and photo in MyBloodlines links to the next. Explore how interconnected family archiving keeps memories navigable for generations.
One Shared Family History: How Relatives Record Together
MyBloodlines has no owner and no per-user copies — one shared graph of people that relatives record together. See how collaborative family history works.
Why MyBloodlines Only Records Parent-Child Ties
Siblings, cousins, and spouses are derived, not entered. See why parent-child is the one relationship MyBloodlines lets you record, and how that works.
Recording vs. Researching Your Family History
Recording and researching family history are different jobs. Learn the difference, who each is for, and why MyBloodlines is built purely for recording.