Posts on FamYarn Genealogy Blog

Family History vs Genealogy

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:13:43 -0500

You might know that your grandmother was born in 1938, married in 1959, and lived most of her life in Ohio. But do you know what songs she played while cleaning the house? What recipe everyone asked her to bring? What story she told so often that the whole family could recite it?

The driving idea behind genealogy is tracing your blood ancestors. Traditional genealogy systems focus just on tracing that blood line.

Privacy First Family History

Sun, 10 May 2026 16:10:34 -0500

You uploaded an old family photo because you wanted to preserve it. Maybe you added a note, a name, a date, or a memory only your family would understand. Then one day, that photo shows up in a Google search.

That is not how family history should work.

FamYarn starts from a different assumption: your family stories, photos, documents, and relationships belong to you and the people you choose to share them with. We don’t have a public tree, and your family history belongs to you and your family.

Hi, We're FamYarn! Nice to Meet You.

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:06:37 -0500

Hi, we’re FamYarn! We’re excited to share our new family history software with you.

We’re building a place for family history: something that helps you record the people, stories, and moments that tend to slip away over time.

Not just a tree. Not just a collection of records. Something a little more human than that.

We built FamYarn to be the kind of tool we wanted when we started exploring our own family histories. We wanted something that felt more like a living, breathing family tree and less like a static database. We’ve done some things differently, and we think it’s for the best. Time and time again, while we were building these tools, we thought, “do we have to do it this way?”. And the answer was often “no, we don’t”.