Research deeply. Cite clearly. Keep the whole story connected.
Move from a person to the records, sources, relatives, places, photographs, and events that explain their life. ArborLynx is a bilingual Windows genealogy research application in active development, with particular depth for Québec and Acadian research.
Coming first to Windows. English and Québec French are being designed together from the start.
More than a family tree.
Explore dedicated Person and Family workspaces, attach sources to the facts they support, review potential GEDCOM duplicates, and follow people across events and places. These connected research tools are being developed together—not as unrelated add-ons.
Sources tied to specific facts
Use a baptism, marriage, census entry, or other record to support the individual names, dates, relationships, and events it documents. Keep citation details such as page, image, entry, URL, and access date with the evidence.
Parishes, places & Québec research
Work with parish and place research alongside cemeteries, historic geography, French-Canadian naming patterns, and external identifiers such as PRDH. Specialized Québec tools are part of the research model, not an afterthought.
English and Québec French
English and français (Canada) are developed in parallel, with terminology tailored to genealogical research. Person, Family, Source, and other workspaces are designed for a consistent experience in either language.
Events on maps and timelines
Explore geographic research from a person, event, place, or parish. The map experience is designed around event markers, date windows, event-type filters, and synchronized event lists so the researcher can follow a life across time.
GEDCOM import with identity review
Import into a new or existing Forest. The import workflow compares names, dates, family relationships, and identifying references to surface possible matches, helping researchers avoid duplicate people without silently combining different individuals.
Library, photographs & OCR
Organize reference works by work, edition, and holding; connect photographs and record images to research; and develop searchable text from scanned documents. These integrated research tools are advancing alongside the core genealogy workspaces.
Person & Family workspaces
Move among Facts & Events, Sources, Media, Family, Notes, and reference numbers for a person. Explore spouses, parents, children, marriages, and family events without losing research context.
Queries & research questions
The Query Builder is being developed to find targeted groups of people or events using genealogical criteria such as dates, locations, relationships, and life status, making large Forests more useful for active research.
Local Forests & data control
ArborLynx is Windows-first desktop software built around research stored on your own computer. Saving, backup, and restore workflows are being engineered to protect your Forest without requiring a public online family tree.
Find and compare
Bring records, sources, places, and existing family data into the same working context.
Resolve carefully
Use relationships, contradictions, and evidence—not just names—to distinguish people.
Cite once, use intelligently
Attach a source to the facts it supports and keep details such as page, image, volume, entry, URL, and access date where they belong.
See the story
Move naturally among person details, relationships, events, maps, timelines, photographs, and historical context.
Built for long research sessions.
ArborLynx is a Windows desktop application. The interface is being shaped around readable person workspaces, direct source citation, fast navigation, thin visual chrome, and the ability to keep research context on screen.
The interface illustration is conceptual, not a current application screenshot. We will add authentic screenshots and guided feature demonstrations as individual workspaces reach presentation readiness.
Québec expertise without a Québec-only ceiling.
The first edition grows from French-Canadian and Acadian genealogy, where parish structure, migration, bilingual records, dit names, and densely connected families expose weaknesses in generic genealogy software. Solving those problems well creates a stronger tool for everyone.
For Québec & Acadian researchers
Purpose-built handling for parishes, Québec place history, PRDH references, bilingual terminology, census reconstruction, immigration attributes, and the research sources genealogists actually use.
Adaptable beyond Canada
The core—people, relationships, evidence, places, sources, media, migration, and historical context—is universal. U.S. and broader North American research can use the same foundation without carrying Canadian branding into every screen.
ArborLynx is in active development.
ArborLynx is planned to debut on Windows, with English and Québec French support. Beta testing is being prepared, and a public release is targeted for late spring or early summer 2027; dates and pricing are not yet final.