How Dorot works
Dorot helps you map your family across generations. Start in the browser with the people you know, see partnerships and places clearly, then save and invite relatives when you are ready.
This page explains what Dorot does and how a typical family uses it. For building tips, see Build a family tree online. For research and privacy habits, see Genealogy and family history.
What you can do
- Add people with names, dates, places, photos, and notes.
- Connect partnerships so remarriage, half-siblings, and blended households stay clear on the chart.
- Explore generations on an interactive canvas, then filter and search as the tree grows.
- See birth and death places on a map so migration shows up as geography, not only as text.
- Export a backup you control, and optionally save to the cloud so invited relatives can view or edit.
How families are modeled
Dorot separates people from partnerships (called unions in the app). A person holds identity and life events. A partnership holds the couple and the children of that household. Remarriage is simply another partnership that shares one person. Siblings, half-siblings, and cousins follow from those shared parents, so blended families stay honest without awkward workarounds.
Filters can show blood relatives vs married-in relatives, and living vs deceased people, which keeps large trees readable.
Private by default
Your working tree lives in this browser first. You can add people and rearrange the chart without creating an account. Cloud save and invites require a verified email. Invites go to a specific address, with roles for owner, editor, or viewer. There are no public person profile pages meant for the open web.
On a new device, sign in with the same verified email to reopen trees you already own or can access. Sign out ends the cloud connection on that browser and leaves your local draft in place.
Map, backup, and import
Structured place fields (city, region, country) power an interactive map with clustered markers. When enough place detail is present, Dorot looks up coordinates so markers land where generations lived.
You can export or restore a full backup of your working tree, and import people from a CSV when columns match the template. Backups are useful before large edits or device changes.
What Dorot is not
- Not a public ancestry search engine or records marketplace.
- Not a DNA matching product.
- Not an automatic scraper of other people's online trees.
- Not a social network with public profiles for each person by default.
Use specialist archives and DNA tools alongside Dorot if you need them. Keep Dorot as the private chart your household actually maintains.
A simple path through the product
- Open Dorot and add the people you already know.
- Create partnerships and place children on the right household so kinship stays clear.
- Fill structured places, then use the map and filters to check the story.
- Export a backup before major changes.
- Save with a verified email when you want the tree across devices.
- Invite relatives as viewer or editor so they can help fill gaps.
Where to go next
Ready to start? Open Dorot and begin with the people closest to you. Read the family tree guide for building tips, or genealogy for research and privacy habits that travel with any tool.