Open source · Self-hosted · Privacy-first
Family history,
kept together.
Photographs, documents, stories and genealogy context — privately hosted on infrastructure you control.
Photographs
Faces, places and moments
Documents
Letters, records and stories
People
Genealogy gives context
Keep family history connected to the material that tells it
Family Archive is an open-source project for building private, self-hosted family archives. It is designed around the material families actually keep: photographs, letters, documents, stories and other historical records.
Genealogy provides context and navigation, while the archive material remains at the centre.
Private by design
Run the archive on infrastructure you control and decide who can access family material.
Material first
Bring photographs, documents and stories together with the people they belong to.
Open source
Inspect the code, host it yourself and follow development in the public repositories.
A glimpse inside the archive
The material that tells the story
Photographs, postcards and other traces of everyday life gain context when they are connected to the people and stories around them.
All material shown here is fictional demo material.
JFA in action
See how the archive fits together
The public demo shows how people, genealogy, photographs, albums and documents work together in JFA. Everything in the demo is fictional.
Family tree
Move through family relationships and use genealogy as context for the archive.
Archive documents
Keep PDFs and scanned records together with dates, places, sources and related people.
Photographs
Browse visual material and filter it by people, place and date.
Photo albums
Collect related images into albums for trips, postcards and other family material.
The first Family Archive application
JFA — Family Archive for WordPress
JFA is a WordPress plugin for creating a private family archive with people, genealogy, photographs, albums, documents, stories and contributions from relatives.
Transparent by default
Built with privacy in mind
The public Family Archive project aims to collect only limited, anonymous and aggregated information that is useful for improving the software. No advertising profiles, fingerprinting or cross-site tracking.