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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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 testing → find at least two independent records → check the dates and places can coexist → record each source with its citation → note the conflicts you can't resolve → state 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.