Cognatua

Your family’s story, and it stays yours

Your own website with your family’s name, with everyone in it from the great-grandparents to the youngest grandchild, with photos and stories. Not an account kept on a big company’s server, but your family’s property: what you gather today will belong to your grandchildren and great-grandchildren too.

The domain, the data and the photos belong to your family. We simply build it and look after it, so that nothing gets lost.

A fictional example family. On the real site every name can be clicked: photos, story, siblings, children.

The photos exist. They’re just on fifteen different phones.

The old photos are in grandma’s drawer, the new ones in the family chat, the names and dates in the heads of a few relatives. At every family reunion someone asks who is whose child, and afterwards everything scatters again.

On your own family site this is put in order once, and it stays that way: the young find their roots, relatives abroad can read it in their own language, and the elders can see how big the family has grown.

And one day someone who hasn’t even been born yet will search for their great-grandparents’ names, and find them, with faces and stories.

How it works

  1. Send us what you have

    A spreadsheet, a notebook, scanned old photos, even a handwritten list. No need to tidy it up, we’ll find our way through it.

  2. We build it

    We enter the data, connect the generations, crop the portraits and write the welcome text. Where something is unclear, we ask.

  3. Share the link

    One address in the family group, and everyone finds themselves in the tree. New births can be added later too.

What’s on a family site?

An explorable family tree

Branches that open generation by generation, a name search, and for every relative their parents, siblings and children one click away. The home page automatically shows how many children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren there are.

Portrait and family photo

A personal photo for everyone, and a picture of their own family. Old photos get a worthy place too.

Family news

Births, weddings, reunions: one place where announcements don’t get lost in the chat.

In your family’s languages

The site can be read in the languages your family chooses, from nearly thirty available, so that grandchildren who grew up abroad feel at home on it too.

Dignified remembrance

Family members who have passed away are marked in a quiet, elegant way, with a line of remembrance.

It stays yours, and you can pass it on

Your own domain with your family’s name, not a sub-page on a big company’s site. The data and photos remain your family’s property: if you ever move on, we hand everything over in one piece, so the next generation can keep it safe.

Pricing

A one-time fee for building the site, and a smaller yearly fee that covers hosting, backups, updates and adding new family members.

Self-service

If you enjoy filling it in yourselves

€149 one-time

+ €69 / year

  • A ready site on your family’s domain
  • Editor access and a guide
  • You upload the data and photos
  • Help by e-mail
Choose this

Most families choose this

Turnkey

We fill in everything

€349 one-time

+ €89 / year

  • We enter the data from your spreadsheet or notes
  • Cropping portraits and family photos
  • Welcome text in every language of the site
  • New births added twice a year
Choose this

Family legacy

For large families, or as a gift

from €1,490

+ €99 / year

  • Everything in Turnkey
  • Stories from conversations with your relatives
  • Restoration of old photos
  • Printed family tree poster and name cards for the reunion
Choose this

Prices exclude VAT. The yearly domain fee (typically €10–15) is paid separately; we help you register and set it up.

A gift that won’t end up in a drawer

For Christmas, a milestone anniversary or a family reunion. We send a gift voucher you can hand to the grandparents, and by the time they open the link, the whole family is waiting for them.

Request a voucher

Frequently asked questions

How long does it take?

For the Turnkey package usually two to three weeks, if the data is available in one place. For larger families and the Family legacy package we agree on a schedule in advance.

In what form should we send the data?

However you have it: Excel, Word, a photo of a notebook, or simply tell us on the phone. If several people in the family collected data, we merge it.

Who can see the site?

The site is available on your family’s domain. For living relatives we recommend showing only the year of birth and the town, not the exact date and address. You decide what appears.

How is a new baby added?

Let us know and we add them; the yearly fee covers it. If you have editor access, you can add them yourselves in two clicks.

What happens if we stop paying the yearly fee?

The content still stays yours. The site goes offline, but we hand over all data and photos in one piece, so you can keep them safe or bring the site back to life any time.

Which languages does it support?

The ones you choose, from nearly thirty available. Visitors switch language in the header, and the site also recognises the browser’s language.

How do we pay?

By bank transfer against an invoice: half of the one-time fee when work starts, the other half at handover. The yearly fee is invoiced annually in advance.

Request an offer for your family

Tell us roughly how many people are involved, and we’ll reply with a concrete offer within two working days.