About Assist With Family History

A different approach to family history tools

Our Mission

Traditional genealogy software focuses on building trees—collecting names, dates, and connecting relationships. That's important work, but it's only the beginning.

Assist With Family History preserves the trail behind the tree. It connects people and relationships with events, places, sources, questions, interpretations, and stories so useful work can survive the current conversation.

Your chosen AI can help gather, compare, and draft under your direction. The workspace keeps what came from a source distinct from what was inferred, disputed, remembered, or added as wider historical context—and lets you correct the result.

Our Principles

Evidence and story stay connected

A meaningful story can remain readable while a curious person follows important details back to sources, context, uncertainty, and later corrections.

Your family history, your authority

The private workspace is owner-scoped. Reading, changing, sharing, exporting, and publishing are separate operations rather than one blanket permission.

Your AI remains your choice

Your chosen AI can reason, compare, research, and draft. Family History keeps the durable records and enforces its own data and tool boundary.

Uncertainty belongs in the record

Candidate identities, conflicting evidence, family lore, inference, and historical context remain visible instead of being flattened into one official answer.

How It Works

  1. 1

    Extract

    Begin with a person and known relationship, or preserve the source, memory, place, event, or question that brought you here.

  2. 2

    Document

    Keep original material, citations, extracts, confidence, conflicts, and capture provenance connected to every relevant person and event.

  3. 3

    Contextualize

    Compare evidence and context without silently turning a proposal into a fact. Unresolved gaps become durable research work rather than lost chat history.

  4. 4

    Tell

    Build a private, source-aware story, follow details back to their evidence, and keep publication as a separate human-reviewed decision.

Assist your AI, so it can assist you with family history.