The pipeline
What we did with your file
Before you can ask a single question, every record in your file passes through a pipeline that cleans it up, protects the people still living, and writes a short, plain summary of everyone in it. Nothing below was written by a model — every number and every example is exactly what the pipeline actually did to your file.
At a glance
How we protected the living
706 of the 3,010 people in your file may still be alive. We hold back their details — birth dates, addresses, family links — from search results and summaries by default. When we could not tell either way from the record, we treated the person as living rather than guess: a person wrongly shown as living is an inconvenience; a living person’s details published by mistake cannot be undone.
They are still read into the tree and placed on the meaning map, because a family missing its most recent generations is not your family. Being in the index and being quoted back at you are two different decisions, and only the first one is on.
- 318 have a recent birth date and no recorded death.
- 129 have no dates of their own, but a close relative’s dates suggest they could be alive.
- 259 have no dates anywhere nearby, so we could not rule it out.
What we cleaned up
Family history software writes dates and places in dozens of inconsistent ways. We made sense of 4,016 of the 4,018 dated events in your file (from 2,111 different ways of writing a date). Your file also referred to places 715 different ways; we resolved those down to 670 actual places, including 3 pairs like "Little Rock, Arkansas" and "Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas" that were the same town recorded at two levels of detail.
What we flagged — and never changed
We never delete or silently correct anything in your file. Where a record contradicts itself — a death before a birth, a parent younger than their child — we leave it exactly as written and attach a note, so you can look into it yourself.
- 3,010 have no source attached.
- 876 have no dated event on record.
- 36 have a birth year outside recorded history.
- 25 show a marriage at an implausibly young age.
- 14 show a birth recorded after a parent's death.
- 5 show a parent who would have been implausibly young.
Why this makes it cheap to ask questions
Your original file is about 117K tokens — far more than any conversation could hold. Because we did the cleaning up front, a summary of one person now costs about 36 tokens, and answering “how are these two people related” costs less than a hundred — computed directly from the family structure, never guessed at.