How it works
Help with the demos
Two real families, fully researched and live in the graph: the House of Habsburg and the British royal family. Both demos are read-only — you explore, you're not building anything yet. Here's how to find your way.
What are the demos?
Two curated family trees — the House of Habsburg with 294 people across 18 generations, and the British royal family with 166 people from William the Conqueror to Charles III. Both run on the real Kinverse backend (Neo4j graph, kinship engine, EU-hosted) and show what the system looks like under load and across long timeframes.
The demos are public — no login, no account. You click in, look around, click away. Nothing is saved, because there's nothing to save: you're looking at fixed data.
Moving around the tree
Mouse wheel or trackpad pinch zooms around the cursor. Drag on empty space pans the tree. The toolbar at top right has + (in), − (out) and ⤢ (fit all).
At the top of the header there's a "Centre on…" dropdown — pick a person and the tree scrolls and zooms onto them. Useful in the big demos: with 166 people you won't spot Charles V or Queen Victoria at first glance.
Clicking into a person
Clicking a person opens their detail page. You'll see: identity (birth and death dates, birth name), a biography, life events with places and dates, a portrait where available, and all known relationships (parents, partner, children, siblings, godchildren).
Every linked person on the detail page takes you to the next detail page — you can read your way through the dynasty chapter by chapter. The browser back button steps you back any time.
Reading the tree
Line conventions: solid blue arcs = parent → child, dashed gold lines = married. So at a glance you can see who is biologically related and who married in.
The kinship engine running in the background computes exact relationship terms across every generation and line — even for tricky cases like uncle-niece marriages (Habsburg) or illegitimate children. Try it yourself: there's a little playground at the bottom of the landing page.
What the demos can't do
You can't add people in the demos, change relationships, or write notes. They're an exhibit, not a tool.
For your own family there's the Kinverse app. It's in Phase-1 alpha and opens up gradually. Join the waitlist if you want in.
If something breaks
The demos run directly on app.kinverse.family. If the detail page or the centre-on dropdown stops responding, a normal reload usually fixes it. If something is genuinely broken, drop us a note — kontakt@kinverse.family.