Map how people are connected.
Drag people onto a canvas, draw the relationships between them, and share the result with a link. Business dynasties, football transfers, the whole cast of a TV show. Anything with people and ties.
Then add a tour so the map plays as a story, a timeline so it changes with the years, and a source on each relationship so people know it's real.
Example maps
22 maps · 485 people · 804 relationships
- Kurtlar Vadisi
Fifty people across the whole franchise: the original series, Pusu and the films. The Wolves Council, Çakır's crew, the KGT and the Templars. Scrub from 2003 to 2017 and watch three generations of enemies replace each other.
50 people · 97 relationshipsFictional - Y Combinator
Four people started an accelerator in 2005. Twenty years on, a third of the partners running it are founders it funded. The presidency, the partner bench, and the batches that produced both.
41 people · 59 relationshipsReal· sourced - The Kushners
A New Jersey real estate family, a conviction, a marriage into a presidency, and the Gulf sovereign money that followed. Four rows: the family, the firm, the West Wing, and the funds.
34 people · 57 relationshipsReal· sourced - OpenAI and the split
The 2015 founding group, the five days in November 2023 when the board fired its chief executive and then took him back, and the earlier walkout that became Anthropic. Scrub the timeline to replay the week.
26 people · 39 relationshipsReal· sourced - The Murdochs
Five marriages, six children, and a trust that took a Nevada courtroom to settle. The real version of a story television has already told twice.
21 people · 38 relationshipsReal· sourced - Who owns the Premier League
American families, Gulf sovereign funds and private equity, and the deals that link them. The only map here whose edges are transactions rather than blood, which is rather the point.
30 people · 32 relationshipsReal· sourced - Breaking Bad
Every relationship in the show, colour-coded by kind. Play the tour, or scrub the timeline from 2008 to 2013 and watch the network thin out.
18 people · 29 relationshipsFictional - The Sopranos
Tony's two families, the one at home and the one at the Bada Bing, and the fact that he could never keep them apart. Scrub from 1999 to 2007 and count who is left.
23 people · 43 relationshipsFictional - Succession: the Roy family
Who is going to run Waystar RoyCo. Four children, three marriages, and a father who kept moving the finish line. The person who ends up with it is on the far edge of the family.
21 people · 37 relationshipsFictional - The Godfather
The Corleone family and the Five Families, from the wedding in 1945 to Havana and the boat on the lake. Scrub the timeline and watch Michael end up alone.
23 people · 44 relationshipsFictional - The Wire
Baltimore across five seasons: the corner, the detail, the docks, the school and City Hall. Scrub from 2002 to 2008 and watch the Barksdale organisation get replaced by Marlo's, while the police chasing them stay exactly the same.
31 people · 56 relationshipsFictional - The PayPal Mafia
One payments company in 1999, and the companies its founders and early employees went on to start.
14 people · 24 relationshipsReal· sourced - The Kennedys
Three generations of one American political family, the offices they held, and how many of them did not reach old age. Scrub the timeline from 1930 to 2000.
17 people · 29 relationshipsHistorical· sourced - The House of Windsor
The British royal line from George VI to the present, and the marriages that kept redrawing it.
18 people · 26 relationshipsReal· sourced - Peaky Blinders
The Shelby family in Birmingham, from a back-street betting shop to a seat in Parliament, and everyone who tried to stop them. Scrub from 1919 to 1934 and the enemies change every few years while the family does not.
20 people · 31 relationshipsFictional - The Agnelli family
Fiat, Ferrari and Juventus, held by one Turin family for four generations, and a succession that skipped a generation entirely.
12 people · 20 relationshipsReal· sourced - The Arnault succession
Bernard Arnault put all five of his children inside LVMH and has not said which one gets it.
13 people · 23 relationshipsReal· sourced - The Habsburgs
Four centuries of marrying Europe rather than fighting it, and the cousin marriages that ended the Spanish line. Scrub the timeline from 1450 to 1720.
15 people · 27 relationshipsHistorical· sourced - Money Heist
La Casa de Papel: a crew named after cities, the police outside, and a plan that depended on nobody forming a personal relationship. Almost every line on this map is one the Professor told them not to draw.
19 people · 32 relationshipsFictional - The Koç family
Four generations of Türkiye's largest industrial dynasty, and how the chairmanship of Koç Holding passed down it.
13 people · 17 relationshipsReal· sourced - The Sabancı family
From a cotton mill in Adana to a holding company, and the granddaughter who ended up running it.
11 people · 16 relationshipsReal· sourced - Süleyman's court
The family and the viziers around Süleyman the Magnificent, and how the succession was settled by execution. Scrub the timeline from 1520 to 1580.
15 people · 28 relationshipsHistorical· sourced
Questions
- What is a sociogram?
- A sociogram is a diagram of the relationships inside a group: every person is a point, every tie between two people is a line, and the shape that emerges is the thing you read. Social scientists have drawn them since the 1930s to show who is central, who is isolated, and where a group splits in two. This site is a free tool for drawing one and sharing it with a link.
- How do I make a sociogram?
- Open a new map, double-click the canvas to add a person, then drag from the edge of one person to another to draw the tie between them. Each tie carries a label and a kind of family, business, social or conflict, so the colours do most of the explaining. When the map is ready, share the view link. Nothing to install, and no account.
- What can I use one for?
- Classroom and team dynamics, family trees, company ownership, sports transfers, investigative research, and the cast of a TV show. Anything with people and ties between them. The example maps on this page cover business dynasties, political families, historical courts and fiction.
- Is it free, and do I need an account?
- It is free and there is no account. You open a map, build it, and keep the private edit link that comes back. There is no sign-up, no email, and no limit on how many people a map can hold.
- Are the maps I make private?
- Maps you create are unlisted. Anyone holding the view link can read the map, but it is never indexed by search engines and never listed anywhere on the site. You can choose to publish a map to the gallery, which is reversible, and only the example maps published by sociogram itself appear in search results.
- How is this different from a family tree or org chart tool?
- A family tree assumes one kind of tie and a rigid hierarchy. Sociogram lets any two people connect for any reason, colour-coded as family, business, social or conflict, and a person can sit in several of those networks at once.
- Can I show where a relationship came from?
- Yes. Every relationship can carry a source URL and a confidence level of confirmed, reported or rumored, and the confidence is drawn into the line style so a reader can see how solid a claim is without clicking it.
- Can a map show how a network changed over time?
- Yes. People and relationships can carry dates, and a map that uses them gets a timeline slider that filters the network to any point in its history. Maps can also carry an ordered tour that plays the network as a story.
- Who publishes this?
- Sociogram is published by Isik & Co., a company working across technology, manufacturing, consulting and trade. It is one of a small set of free tools the company runs, alongside confusionmatrixpro.com and whataifound.org.