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An AI assistant traced my family tree past 1,200 people and 13 generations

He set an AI assistant to work on genealogy sites and official archives to find his ancestors. It searches for a person with unknown parents, transcribes the record it finds, checks it against an official act and adds the new people to his family tree file, and the tree now holds more than 1,200 people across 13 generations on one branch.

How it works

  1. Picks a person in the tree with unknown parents
  2. The assistant searches genealogy sites and the archives that hold the civil records
  3. It transcribes the record and checks the data against an official act
  4. It adds the new people to the GEDCOM file with the source recorded and commits
  5. The loop repeats

Why it’s worth knowing

The assistant runs the whole loop on its own, from searching an archive to reading handwritten records and filing new ancestors in the tree.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on hackernoon.com. See the original ↗

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