Kin Nearby
Which of your ancestors were near a place, and when were they there?
Kin Nearby reads a family tree from a GEDCOM file, the standard export that genealogy services and programs offer, and answers that question on a map and a timeline.
Available now for iPhone and iPad.
What it does
- Before you go. Planning a trip? Choose any place and see which relatives lived, worked or were recorded there, with the years.
- Near me. See who was close to where you are now.
- Walk in their footsteps. Open one ancestor and follow their life across the map, event by event, in date order.
- Any tree. Import any GEDCOM file, from the program or website that holds your tree. See which spellings in your tree went to each place, and which places it could not find, so you can fix them in your tree.
- Honest about the details. Most places in a tree are a town or a county, not an address, so Kin Nearby says "in this county" and never claims a distance the data cannot support. Years a person is only presumed to have stayed are drawn apart from recorded events and labeled as presumed.
- Private, and works offline. No account and no server. Your tree is read and kept on your device, and the offline globe shows your ancestors' places with no network connection at all.
- Share a discovery. Make a card of an ancestor's journey to send to a relative.
- Free to try, one purchase to unlock. Everything works on a built-in demo tree. After you import your own tree you see what was found and a preview of it; a single one-time purchase opens the whole tree. No subscription and no ads.
See it in action
Watch short videos of Kin Nearby on the Kin Nearby YouTube playlist.
Your tree stays with you
There is no account and no server of ours. Your tree is read and kept on your device, and there is no analytics or advertising code in the app. Apple Maps, if you choose it, is sent the area you look at and the places you search for; the offline globe sends nothing. The privacy statement lists every way the app uses the network.