How Rooted History Works
We use a team of specialized AI agents working together to transform your FamilySearch data into accurate, compelling family stories.
Our system reflects a philosophy: slow down, travel back in time, and see your ancestors in their world—not ours.
Two Systems, One Goal
Rooted History has two powerful systems: one for generating biographies and another for investigating your family tree. Both use multiple specialized AI roles to ensure accuracy and quality.
Biography Generation
A multi-stage pipeline that researches data, crafts narratives, and fact-checks everything before delivery.
Investigations
Ask any question in your language and get historically-contextualized answers about your ancestors.
Research. Write. Verify.
Three specialized AI roles work together, each bringing unique expertise to create accurate, compelling family narratives.
The Researcher
Gathering & Understanding Your Data
Prepares everything needed to tell your ancestor's story:
- Data Assembly: Assembles a complete profile from your FamilySearch data—facts, relationships, timeline, and data quality assessment.
- Deep Reading: When life sketches or obituaries are available, AI extracts additional details like personality traits, relatives not in structured records, and career specifics.
- Historical Context: Generates era-specific context about what life was like in that place and time—the social norms, daily realities, and historical forces that shaped your ancestor's world.
The Biographer
Narrative Composition
Crafts your ancestor's story:
- The Biography: Writes a biographical narrative covering your ancestor's complete family — parents, spouses, siblings, and children — that scales with the richness of your records, from 1,200 words to 3,400+. Verified facts appear in bold, with historical context woven throughout.
- Historical Perspectives: Generates up to 8 thematic perspectives in parallel—focused analyses of daily life, technology, politics, faith, education, and (when applicable) work, migration, and military service.
The Editor
Fact Verification & Copy Editing
Ensures accuracy and polish:
- Fact Checking: Validates every fact against source data. Corrects dates, places, names, and relationships. Ensures all claims match your FamilySearch records and historical context before delivery.
- Copy Editing: Polishes grammar, flow, and style without changing any facts. Improves readability while preserving all historical claims and verified information.
The Investigations Team
When you ask a question about your family tree, three specialized agents work together to understand your question, find the answer, and explain it with historical context.
The Sentinel
Content Moderation
Validates all requests for safety and appropriateness. Ensures questions are about genealogical research and prevents misuse. Guards against attempts to access inappropriate data.
The Archivist
Query Planning
Translates your question into a precise search of your family tree. Understands genealogical concepts like generations, relationships, and family structures to find exactly what you're looking for.
The Historian
Narrative Synthesis
Takes the raw query results and transforms them into a narrative answer. Adds historical context, explains significance, and helps you understand what the data means for your family history.
Why Multiple Stages?
Accuracy Over Speed
A single AI could generate a biography quickly, but it would risk "hallucinations"—invented facts that sound plausible but aren't true. Our multi-stage system catches these errors before they reach you. Each role has a specific job, and no single role tries to do everything.
Specialization
Different AI models excel at different tasks. We use fast, precise models for data extraction and fact-checking, and our most capable model for creative writing. Each role does what it does best.
Clear Distinction
Verified facts from your FamilySearch data appear in bold, making it easy to distinguish sourced information from historical context. You always know what's verified.
Quality Assurance
Every biography is verified before delivery. Our Editor validates facts against your source data and polishes the prose, catching errors before they reach you.
See It In Action
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