Practical, tested methods for capturing and documenting family history — interviews, archives, and the AI tools that are actually worth your time.https://familyhistoryandai.com/enhttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/three-open-source-genealogy-tools/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/three-open-source-genealogy-tools/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.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/facebook-groups-worth-joining/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/facebook-groups-worth-joining/Facebook 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.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/transcription-gets-the-names-wrong/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/transcription-gets-the-names-wrong/The general prose is fine now, genuinely. The problem is that a genealogy interview is mostly surnames and place names, which is exactly the part these tools fumble.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/twelve-questions-that-get-someone-talking/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/twelve-questions-that-get-someone-talking/Most family interviews die in the first ten minutes because the questions are too big. These are small, specific, and reliably open something up.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/ai-photo-restoration-invents/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/ai-photo-restoration-invents/Upscaling a damaged portrait produced a sharp, convincing face. Comparing it to a second print of the same photograph showed it was not quite the right face.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/one-name-one-country-where-to-start/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/one-name-one-country-where-to-start/The standard advice is to work backwards from yourself. Useful, and not what to do first when the trail is thin.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/phone-recording-that-lasts/https://familyhistoryandai.com/posts/phone-recording-that-lasts/You do not need equipment. You do need to fix five things, and four of them are free.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT