The Diers Family
Our history, in our words.
A private home for every branch of the Diers family — by blood, by marriage, by name, by the cousin-of-a-cousin connection nobody else tracks. We trace who we came from, preserve what we've lived through, and pass it forward together.
64
People documented
15
Generations traced
1583 – today
Years of family history
What this is
A family record, kept by the family.
Trace your line
The research so far reaches back to the Mayflower and a Swiss village in 1717 — and every new branch that joins makes the tree wider. Click any ancestor to explore.
Add your branch
Whether your Diers line comes from Iowa, Germany, or a branch that connected through marriage, you belong here. Add your parents, your kids, your cousins — help us make it complete.
Yours, permanently
No auto-renewals, no price hikes, no selling your data. Free for family, no account tricks. When you share something and it's verified, it stays forever — that's the whole point.
Why we built this
Thirty years of research — and a wall of paywalls.
Phil has been tracing one line of the Diers family for three decades — from Emil John Diers back through Iowa, Ohio, and into 1862 Germany. Every ancestor found came the slow way: county records, old letters, microfilmed census pages, conversations with cousins he hadn't seen in years.
Along the way he hit every paywall the big genealogy sites put between him and his own family's history. Records that were public domain. Hints that went dead. Exports that weren't really exports. Subscriptions that auto-renewed after a tree was already built.
This is the alternative. Not Phil's tree — the whole family's tree. Every Diers branch, whether it runs through Iowa farmers, Rhode Island shipbuilders, a cousin who married in from Ohio, or a line nobody in this house has met yet. If you're family — blood, marriage, or name — you're welcome here. Add your branch. Make it wider.
How to join
Three steps in.
Sign up
Tell us your name, email, and agree to our terms. Takes under a minute.
Tell us where you fit
Your birth details and your parents' names — we use this to find your branch of the tree, whether it's an already-researched line or a new one we haven't mapped yet.
A family admin approves you
Once we verify you're family, the full tree opens up. You can add your parents, kids, and cousins — every branch makes us more complete.