Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Oakbough keeps family trees in plain files
Oakbough presents desktop apps for genealogy and worldbuilding that store work as readable files on your computer, without an account or subscription.
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- Family historians, writers and game masters
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- Family data imports through GEDCOM, and old church-book dates can retain the scribe’s original wording.
Field notes
The Family feature list includes sources and ready-to-paste citations, plus maps of life journeys and a way to preserve dates as written in old church books. The site says project data remains in a local folder as plain Markdown files. World is not presented as available yet: its listed features include invented-world family trees, custom calendars and chronology checks, and the app is marked “In preparation.”
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