Family challenge
Find one thing nobody knew
Follow a clue, add a record or ask someone who remembers. Useful contributions move the family story forward.
Ask the family archive
Ask, remember or add something
Ask about the family, share something you remember, or pick up the next loose thread.
What would you like to find out, remember or add today?
On this day
Opening the scrapbook…
Checking birthdays, anniversaries and family moments.
Family contributors
Who is helping build this?
What the family has unlocked
From the scrapbook
Photographs, places and family memories
Dad’s Capri, Mam’s birthplace and the small details people remember are all part of the family story.
Current family view
Your family
Choose a living family member from Viewing as, or select any person in the tree to centre the family around them.
Family view
Family around Neil
Each row is a generation. Click anyone to follow their branch backwards or forwards.
Our people
Family tree
Start with someone you know, then follow their parents, brothers and sisters, children and grandchildren. Family nicknames stay with the people who use them.
Family branches
Follow the story
See how the people, places, work and records fit together across a branch of the family.
Discover together
Ask. Remember. Discover.
Start with a question or tell the family assistant something you know. The tree, evidence and next research step update as you contribute.
Add a memory, photo or detail
How it works
Family memories remain attributed. Records add evidence. Confidence changes only when the evidence justifies it.
Timeline
Family through time
Move through the years and see who was around, where the family was living, what they were doing and what changed.
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Family places
Where our stories happened
Showing places connected to the person and branch you are exploring.
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Stories
Family stories
The people, places, jobs, photographs and memories that make the family feel real.
Archive
Photographs, voices and records
Original material is kept separate from transcription, identification and interpretation.
Added by the family
Your family archive
Photographs and records you add appear here straight away.
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Photographs
People, places, pets and friends. Known faces can be suggested from previously confirmed identifications.
Voices
Original recordings retain accents, humour, pauses and differences in recollection.
Letters and records
Documents can be linked to people, places, dates, events and claims.
Unidentified
Unknown people and places can be reviewed by the family and compared with contextual evidence.
Photo identification
How a suggested identity is assessed
Face similarity is considered with date, place, age, household, relationships, other people in the image and known pets. A suggestion can be strengthened, weakened or ruled out by context.
Observation→Context→Inference→Judgement