Strengthen an existing tree
Check uncertain links, identify weak evidence and distinguish copied claims from reliable conclusions.
Family-history research
Go beyond the family tree.
A tree records relationships. A family history asks how people lived, worked, moved, formed households and encountered the circumstances of their time.
Names and dates are the frameworkânot the finished history.
Family-history research combines genealogical accuracy with historical context. It may begin with a particular branch, couple, occupation, migration or inherited story and develop into a documented account for present and future generations.
The scope can be modest. A carefully researched account of one ancestor may reveal more than a vast but thinly evidenced tree.
Understand an ancestor
Explore household, work, movement and community around a known individual or couple.
Create a family narrative
Bring the evidence into a readable account that can be shared rather than left across databases and folders.
Genealogy and history
Related disciplines, different questions.
01
Who?
Establish identities and relationships.
02
Where?
Locate households, movement and belonging.
03
How?
Recover work, circumstances and change.
04
Why it matters
Shape evidence into a history people can use.