Public family-history resources · No account needed
A remembered meal, an uncertain date, a cousin connection: start with one question you can explain to someone else. These guides and tools help you keep the source, the uncertainty and the sharing decision together.
A conversation to prepare
Plan a respectful interview, follow up without suggesting an answer, and turn a memory into notes that retain its source. A worked example shows how to keep conflicting dates unresolved.
The four-part worksheet lets you prepare your own notes and download a text copy. It does not save them to an account or send them to us.
Open the family-story worksheet →A relationship to understand
Count parent–child steps from the nearest shared ancestor to both people. Compare the result with three worked examples and a chart that also works without JavaScript.
The calculator uses two generation counts. It does not ask for names, search a family tree or establish that a relationship is correct.
Learn how to count the paths →A useful family-history note helps another person tell what was remembered, what was checked and what still needs work. Keep three things together:
Then make a separate decision about who should see the note. A connection in a tree does not establish permission to publish a living person’s story or a private address.
These resources are published by Programming Securely for My People Here. The exercises, examples and tools are prepared for this public library; illustrative people and situations are labelled as fictional. The source lists on each guide identify the external material used to check its method.
The interview guide separates source material from our own worked exercise. The cousin calculator explains its calculation and the kinds of relationship it can name. A calculation or a remembered story is not independent evidence of a family connection.
To suggest a correction, email support@mypeoplehere.com with the page address, the passage or two generation counts involved, and the source or result you think needs checking. Please omit names, private records, login details and other people’s personal information. Account or data requests use the same contact listed in the privacy policy.
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