The webtrees family tree
on your phone

Besides German, wtAnd now also speaks English, French, Dutch and Spanish. In the menu (⋮) under Language … you choose “Like the system” or a fixed language – it takes effect immediately. Date entry also understands the new languages (“vers 1850”, “3 maart 1890”), and labels from the webtrees server arrive in the chosen language.

The hourglass shows ancestors, partners, children and grandchildren, and on request also siblings and cousins. Branches can be expanded upwards. When you zoom out, a card shows less rather than smaller – first without portrait, then only the given name, finally a box in the sex color. The text stays readable.

The life story as a timeline, with marriage, the births and marriages of the children, and the age at death. The relationship to yourself is shown alongside – “paternal grandfather”. Plus the family and a map of the stations of a life.

New in 1.31: godparents and witnesses. Below baptism and marriage, the godparents or witnesses are listed; anyone with their own record in the family tree can be tapped. In addition, each person shows where they themselves were a godparent or witness. Civil and religious marriage appear separately. This requires api4webtrees 1.11 on the server. Godparents are entered at the PC with wtWin.

On the road at your aunt’s, photograph an old photo, choose a folder, add description, date and people – the app suggests the names from the tree. The details are written into the image file itself (EXIF/XMP). With the Sammlungen module (the collections module), the app also shows the archive: folders, thematic collections and the many pictures that hang on no person.

Add and change events, add relatives with the “+” on every card, assign photos to a person. Everything arrives as a pending change in the same webtrees installation – under its rights, moderation and rules. Moderators accept or reject changes right in the app.