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Assist With Family History

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
  • Break through a brick wall

    5 steps
  • Turn evidence into a story

    5 steps
  • Source a photograph

    4 steps
  • Plan a research session

    4 steps

Inside a loop

Confirm a person is who you think: state the claim you're testingfind at least two independent recordscheck the dates and places can coexistrecord each source with its citationnote the conflicts you can't resolvestate the conclusion and how sure you are.

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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