About

Simple online tools for clearer, more careful family history research.

About Tree Tracing Tools

Tree Tracing Tools creates simple, online genealogy tools that help researchers better understand and visualize genealogical information.

The site includes interactive tools, educational resources, and research aids designed to help users work with historical records, census data, citations, paleography, AI-assisted research, and other family history research challenges. Each tool is meant to support the researcher—not replace judgment, source evaluation, or proof-based reasoning.

Tree Tracing Tools is especially focused on making genealogy technology approachable. The design is intentionally simple so beginners and older users can use it, while still giving serious researchers enough structure to work carefully and efficiently.

Better tools should make family history research clearer, not more confusing.

Developer Statement

Tree Tracing Tools has been developed with the assistance of artificial intelligence, including for coding, drafting, organization, and review. AI-assisted work has gone through multiple rounds of human review and verification before publication. Because errors are still possible, important information should always be checked against original sources and other reliable evidence.