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Assist you and your AI with every part of family history — finding them, sourcing it properly, and telling their stories.

Research that ends in something worth reading. Keep the people, the records and the evidence connected, and turn what the sources actually support into stories the rest of the family will finish.

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What it assists with

9 kinds of help

  • assist with research
  • assist with records
  • assist with sources
  • assist with telling it
  • assist with a brick wall
  • assist with the tree
  • assist with dates and places
  • assist with their world
  • assist with what's still uncertain

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A tree where every claim shows its evidence.

A name with a source behind it and a name someone guessed at in 1994 are not the same thing, and the tree shouldn't pretend they are. Every person, date and relationship carries where it came from and how sure you are — so a story built on it can say what's known, what's likely, and what's still an open question.

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Elizabeth Hale · 1847–1921

Born · Whitby, Yorkshire

parish register · 1851 census

2 sources

Married · 1868

certificate scan attached

1 source

Mother's name

two records disagree

uncertain

Research loops

Good ideas your AI can borrow.

Short playbooks for a kind of family history work — the right questions, in a sensible order. Entirely optional: your AI can follow one, adapt it, or ignore them all.

  • Confirm a person is who you think

    6 steps
    1. state the claim you're testing
    2. find at least two independent records
    3. check the dates and places can coexist
    4. record each source with its citation
    5. note the conflicts you can't resolve
    6. state the conclusion and how sure you are

  • Break through a brick wall

    5 steps
    1. list what you know and how you know it
    2. search the neighbours, siblings and witnesses
    3. widen to the record sets you've skipped
    4. check spelling variants and boundary changes
    5. record every negative search so you don't repeat it

  • Turn evidence into a story

    5 steps
    1. assemble what the sources actually support
    2. research the world they lived in
    3. mark what's inferred and keep it marked
    4. write it so the uncertainty still shows
    5. link every claim back to its source

  • Source a photograph

    4 steps
    1. record where the photo came from
    2. date it from the clothing, the format and the setting
    3. identify who else appears in it
    4. save the reasoning, not just the name

  • Plan a research session

    4 steps
    1. pick one question, not one person
    2. list the record sets that could answer it
    3. decide what would count as an answer
    4. record what you found and what's next

What it keeps

Your research and your living relatives stay private.

Family History keeps your notes, sources and drafts to yourself by default. Publishing a story is a separate, deliberate act — and details about living people stay out of anything you share unless you put them there.

Works with what you already use

Your AI brings the searching, the reading and the drafting.

When you authorise it, your AI can work through archives, read a hard hand, cross-check a census against a parish register and draft the story. Family History keeps each claim tied to the record it came from, so a beautiful paragraph never quietly becomes evidence.

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