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Crack Your Immigration Brick Walls: Decoding the Diaspora shows you exactly how to use AI to break through immigration research brick walls. Available in Print, Kindle & Audiobook.

Police detectives are using an AI tool called Longeye to crack cases faster by analyzing mountains of digital evidence. Here’s why genealogists need a similar AI research assistant — and three ways it would transform family history research, from walling off bad data to accelerating the Genealogical Proof Standard.

5 Best AI Genealogy Research Prompts for Beginners: Finally, AI Genealogy Research That Doesn’t Feel Overwhelming Let me be honest with you: when AI tools started showing up in the genealogy world, I had the same reaction a lot of you probably did. I looked at the blank chat box, thought “okay, now what do…

Using AI for Newspaper Genealogy Research: A Practical Guide for Finding Your Ancestors in Print Using AI for Newspaper Genealogy Research: If you’ve spent any time digging through historical newspapers, you already know the feeling. You find a mention of your ancestor, maybe in an obituary or a tiny legal notice, and suddenly a whole…

The AI Prompts Book Every Genealogist Needs in 2026 The AI Prompts Book: If you’ve been poking around with AI tools for your family history research, you already know the frustration. You open ChatGPT or Claude, stare at that blinking cursor, and think… now what do I actually type? That’s exactly the problem I set…

New Book Best AI Prompts for Genealogy Research: The Secret Weapon Genealogists Are Using to Get Real Results New Book Best AI Prompts for Genealogy Research: I’ll be honest with you. When AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude first started showing up on everyone’s radar, I heard the same thing from genealogists over and over:…

MyHeritage Free Access French Records: Through July 18, 2026, search succession and inheritance files to trace French ancestors and break brick walls.

Celebrate Bastille Day 2026 – marking 237 years since the fall of the Bastille. Here’s why it matters for tracing your French-speaking ancestors in America.

The golden rules of genealogy: what still holds true, plus how to use AI in your family history research without inventing ancestors.