Import Existing Research & Build Your Master Tree
Bring your GEDCOM into Archoral, automatically create connected profiles, and build a modern tree that reflects real life, not just rigid family charts.
Archoral’s Master Tree grows automatically from your profiles and supports blended, adoptive, foster, chosen, and community relationships.
Why Start Here
Start With What You Already Have
Import GEDCOMs from major genealogy tools.
Don't Re-Type Years Of Research
Names, events, and relationships become connected profiles automatically.
Go Beyond Traditional Tree Limits
Add stories, media, places, and modern relationship structures GEDCOM was never built to handle.
Your Research Becomes A Living Archive, Not Just A Chart.
What Archoral Imports
People & Names
Every individual becomes a Profile.
Relationships
Parent/child, partners, marriages, family connections.
Events
Birth, death, marriage, residence, and other imported event data when available.
Family Groups
Notes & Facts
Imported notes, facts, and reference details from your GEDCOM file when available.
What Archoral Adds Beyond GEDCOM
Modern Relationships
Stories & Traditions
Textures
Photos & Documents
Places & Maps
Timelines
Build a chronological view of a person’s life using imported events, added stories, media, and place-based history
GEDCOM gives you structure. Archoral gives you meaning.
How Import Becomes a Master Tree
Archoral checks the file and prepares the import.
Each person becomes a profile with imported names, events, and family links.
FAM/INDI structure becomes the starting tree
Add stories, locations, media, modern relationships, and merges if needed.
Continue with indexing, timelines, collections, maps, and community relationships.
Why Archoral’s Master Tree Is Different
No manual charting. No dragging boxes. No diagram editing
Whenever you add relationships on a profile, the tree updates everywhere.
The Master Tree supports 14,000+ relationship types for real-life structures: Icon-friendly short list:
“Cousin who raised me”
“Aunt who was also my caregiver”
“Coach who became like family”
“Coworker who’s practically a brother”
“Foster siblings”
Instead of a flat chart, Archoral combines:
- Photos
- Stories
- Textures
- Locations
- Objects & heirlooms
- Life events / timelines
Your tree becomes a living archive, not a worksheet.
A single relationship updates:
- Both profiles
- Their timelines
- Households
- Addresses
- Branches
- Collections
- The Master Tree itself
One action unlocks dozens of insights.
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Traditional Tree → Modern Archive
02
Blended Families & Modern Identities
03
Empty GEDCOM → Full Storytelling System
What GEDCOM Can’t Do —
And Archoral Can
GEDCOM is useful for moving core genealogy data, but it was never designed to preserve the full complexity of real lives, real relationships, and real historical context. Archoral starts where GEDCOM stops.
GEDCOM cannot express:
- Step parents
- Foster parents
- Guardianship
- Chosen family
- Multi-parent households
- LGBTQ+ identity changes
GEDCOM misses:
- Places lived
- School/work experiences
- Community roles
- Immigration journeys
- Objects and heirlooms
- Emotional textures
- Stories and voices
Traditional software assumes:
- Only two parents
- Binary gender
- Single household per child
- Strict biological structure
Archoral breaks those limits.
Why Archoral is the best home for your GEDCOM
- Instant import
- Compatible with all standard GEDCOMs
- Modern Profiles
- 14,000+ relationship types
- Stories + textures + objects
- Maps + Places + Timelines
- Better support for blended and chosen family
- Indexing connects everything
- Tree grows beyond genealogy restrictions
- Build on your past research — don’t replace it
