AI assistants
Connect FamilyBranch to ChatGPT or Claude and work on your family's tree by asking: add a grandmother born around 1941, find out who was born in Lviv, keep an archive record on a great-grandfather's profile, or make a poster for a birthday. The assistant works in your account, with your role in each family, once you sign in and allow it.
Who is in them and how they are related, dates and places, notes, and the birthdays coming up.
Relatives with dates as exact as you know them, partnerships, a portrait, and notes added at the end of a profile without erasing what is there.
Up to 10 links per person to pages about them, such as an archive record or a memorial, and 3 documents, such as a scanned birth record, for relatives who have died.
A PDF to print or a JPEG to share, in any of the four styles, handed over as a download link.
Deleting someone, or replacing a portrait or a profile's notes, is marked as such, so ChatGPT and Claude ask you before they do it.
You need a FamilyBranch account. Your assistant asks you to sign in to FamilyBranch, which then shows you what the assistant is asking for. Nothing is shared until you press Allow.
https://familybranch.live/mcp
https://familybranch.live/mcp.Your ChatGPT plan must allow custom plugins. In a work or school workspace, its admin decides.
https://familybranch.live/mcp and press Continue.Claude's free plan allows one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans, an owner adds it for the organisation, and members then press Connect.
Add the server:
claude mcp add --transport http familybranch https://familybranch.live/mcpThen type /mcp in Claude Code, pick familybranch and sign in.
Once FamilyBranch is listed in the ChatGPT and Claude directories, you can add it from there by name instead. Signing in works the same way.
When you connect, FamilyBranch shows you what the assistant is asking for:
It sees every family tree you are a member of, including relatives who never joined, and in each family it can do only what your role there allows. It never sees people hidden from the tree.
What you tell your assistant, and what it reads from FamilyBranch, goes to the company that runs it, OpenAI or Anthropic, and is kept under that company's terms. Your relatives are in your trees too: think of them before you connect. The Privacy Policy says what FamilyBranch shares and keeps.
Disconnect an assistant at any time in Connected assistants, in your account settings. It is cut off at once and has to ask you again to get back in.
A family's admin can turn assistants off for the whole family on the Profile page. Then no member's assistant can read or change the family's trees, and those already connected stop at once.
Assistants work on every plan. What a family can do through one depends on the family's plan, as it does on the website.
No charge
USD 4 a month or USD 40 a year
On both plans: every poster style, up to 10 links and 3 documents per person, and inviting as many relatives as you like.
A free family's tree that has grown past 25 people, through an import or a subscription that ended, is read-only: an assistant can read it and delete people, but not add or change anyone.
Only a family's admin can change its plan, in FamilyBranch's billing settings. An assistant can't.
To keep a record or a photo your assistant found online, the assistant gives FamilyBranch the address of the file, and FamilyBranch downloads that one file. A file you give ChatGPT is downloaded from ChatGPT's own file storage in the same way.
It introduces itself to the site as:
FamilyBranch-Downloader/1.0 (+https://familybranch.live/assistants#downloads)If you run a site and want it left alone, block that user agent or write to info@brightitsolutions.biz.
Write to info@brightitsolutions.biz and tell us which assistant you use, what you asked it and roughly when.
If an assistant does something you didn't want, disconnect it first in Connected assistants.