Tree orientation, gallery, search, hints, and navigation

Open a tree to see most tree options. Along the left side of your tree, you'll see these buttons:

1. Tree view: Choose whether to view your family tree horizontally or vertically.
   • Horizontal: View the tree horizontally in a pedigree format focusing only on direct ancestors, with the main person on the left side and their ancestors extending rightward.
   • Vertical: View the tree vertically in an extended family format to see everyone in the tree, with the home main person focused, their ancestors extending upward and descendants extending downward.
2. Gallery: View the media in the tree. The media can be filtered by type—photos, stories, audio, and video.
3. Find in tree: Search and locate someone in your tree. In the opened side panel, type a person's name in your tree, and select it from the list that appears.
   • Filters: see everyone in the tree with a certain tag.
   • Home Person: go to the home (primary) person in this tree. The home person in your tree is typically you but you can set the home person to anyone.
   • Last Viewed: go to the person whose profile page you last visited.
   • List of all people: see a list of everyone in this tree.
4. Hints: view a summary of available Ancestry Hints for this tree (like counts and types of Ancestry Hints) and sort them by type and person's name.
5. DNA: go to the DNA matches of the person whose DNA results are linked to this tree. You'll only see this button when the tree is linked to someone's DNA results.
6. More: See the next section.
7. Home person: Return to the home (primary) person in this tree. The home person in your tree is typically you but you can set the home person to anyone.
8. Zoom: Zoom in or out on your tree.

More: Tree sharing, viewing options, overview, settings, and printing

1. Invite: Share your tree with others via username, email, or a shareable link.
2. Tree viewing options:
   • Relationship line labels: Show or hide the line labels in the vertical family view that describe the relationship between the focus person and other people in your tree.
   • Always view all spouses: Show all spouses or only the default or preferred spouse for all individuals.
   • Show DNA relationships using: ThruLines icons, Possible DNA matches, and Connected DNA matches. You'll only see these options when the tree is linked to someone's DNA results.
   • Comments: Show or hide a comment icon when a comment has been made on a person in the tree.
3. Tree overview: See recent updates to the tree and tree facts (like the number of people, photos, and stories).
4. Tree settings: Access your tree privacy, invitations, and hint preferences and edit the tree name. Set the home person and "who you are" in this tree. You can also download or delete your tree from here.
5. Print: Print the part of your tree that's showing on the screen.
6. Create a keepsake: have your tree printed professionally. You'll be directed to the MyCanvas website, where you'll be able to choose from a family history book, calendar, family tree poster, and more. You'll place and complete your order on their MyCanvas website. 

Moving around a tree in the horizontal pedigree view

Move up the tree by clicking the arrow to the right of a person whose ancestors you want to view.

Move down the tree by clicking on the name of a child of the leftmost person.

Moving around a tree in the vertical family view

Move up the tree by clicking an arrow above the person at the top.

Move down the tree by clicking an arrow below a person at the bottom.