Capture the stories before they go
Mapping ancestors — archives, census returns, DNA, and keeping what you find organised and cited.
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Gramps Web, Charted Roots and a Claude research skill get compared as rivals. They aren't. They sit at three different layers, and picking by feature list is how people end up with the wrong one.
Read the post : Three open-source family history tools that don't do the same jobFacebook is a strange place to keep doing research in 2026, and it's still where a lot of the useful genealogy conversation happens. Here are five groups to start with.
Read the post : Five Facebook groups worth a look for family historyThe standard advice is to work backwards from yourself. Useful, and not what to do first when the trail is thin.
Read the post : Where to actually start when all you have is one name and a country
