Tutorials
Short guides for Genogram Creator on iPhone, iPad and Mac. The same videos are in the app: tap Watch video tutorials on the home screen.
People
Add ethnicity
Record ethnicity and cultural heritage in the Heritage section and show it on the chart.
Add medical conditions
Shade symbols for illness and substance use, mark conditions as suspected or in recovery.
Mark someone as deceased
Add the X, the year of death, age at death and cause of death.
Add religion
Add a religion badge, mark someone as non-practicing, and add detail.
Add occupation and education
Record jobs, education level and history, and show them under each name.
Show location and immigration
Add a country flag to each person and mark immigration on the family line.
Show social class
Add a five-step social class scale to each person.
Show gender identity and sexual orientation
Change a person’s gender, including trans, nonbinary and intersex symbols, and record orientation.
Add twins
Mark fraternal or identical twins and add the twin sibling in one step.
Set the index person (client)
Highlight the client or identified patient, resize a symbol, or fade someone out.
Add notes to a person
Keep clinical notes and tags on each person, and print them on the chart if you want.
Add a pet
Add family pets with their own symbol, species and breed.
Relationships
Show marriage, divorce and separation
Connect partners and change a line to divorced, separated, cohabiting or an affair.
Show adopted, foster and step children
Add children and parents, and mark a child as adopted, foster, step or donor-conceived.
Draw emotional relationships
Draw close, conflicted, distant, cutoff and abusive relationships between any two people.
Show households
Circle the people who live together and name the household.
Layout, legend and sharing
Choose which details appear
Use Views and Text Labels to decide what is drawn on the chart.
Add a legend (key)
Show the live key on the chart, choose its sections, and include it in exports.
Edit several people at once
Box-select a branch of the family and change status, gender, religion or heritage together.
Tidy up a messy genogram
Use Auto Arrange to straighten generations and lines in one step.
Export a genogram as PDF or PNG
Export PDF, PNG or SVG with a legend, anonymized names, or a written Family Report.
Import a family tree (GEDCOM)
Bring in a GEDCOM file from Ancestry or other family tree software.
New to genograms? Start with how to make a genogram and the symbol guide.
Video tutorials
1–2 minutes each, with captions.
Adding your first person
Add someone to the canvas and fill in their details.
Partnerships and marriages
Connect two people as partners, married, separated or divorced.
Read the step-by-step guideParents, children and siblings
Add children, parents and siblings with one tap.
Read the step-by-step guideEmotional relationships
Draw close, conflicted, distant and cutoff lines between people.
Read the step-by-step guideEthnicity and cultural heritage
Give people a heritage pattern, label it, and record mixed heritage.
Read the step-by-step guideBirth, age and recording a death
Set a birth year, mark someone deceased, and show dates and cause of death.
Read the step-by-step guideMedical history and labels
Record conditions and choose what the canvas shows.
Read the step-by-step guideSeparation and divorce
Change a partnership to separated or divorced and label it.
Read the step-by-step guideReligion and country flags
Add a religion badge, mark non-practicing, and show where someone lives.
Read the step-by-step guideKeyboard shortcuts
Faster editing with a keyboard on iPad or Mac.
iPhone gestures
Pinch, drag and tap your way around the canvas.
Can't find what you need? Email support@genogramcreator.com.