Help  β€Ί  🌲 Family trees

Adding life events (timeline)

A person's Timeline mixes automatic events (born, married, children, died) with your own custom events β€” military service, schools, jobs, where they lived, or a note.

Add an event

  1. On the person's page, find the Timeline section and tap Add.
  2. Pick a kind (Event, Lived, School, Military, Work, Note).
  3. Fill in the year, place, and what happened, then Add to timeline.

Remove an event you added

Custom events show a small pin. Long-press one (app) to delete it. The automatic born/married/died events come from the record itself β€” change those by editing the person's facts.

More in Family trees

Your tree vs. the family tree Getting around the tree (website) Getting around the tree (app) Adding people & relationships Editing a person's facts Aliases (also known as) Setting a profile photo Merging duplicate people (admin) Removing & restoring a person Renaming your tree Switching which tree you're viewing Exporting your tree (GEDCOM)