Three views

See your tree

The same family, three ways. A pedigree is what every genealogy site gives you. The other two are what your file becomes once it has been turned into something a machine can reason over — and they are the reason questions can be answered in a sentence instead of a search results page.

The shape you already know — but built from the cleaned, deduplicated records rather than the raw file.

Building the pedigree…

What you are looking at

The graph

It is not a picture of the family tree — it is the family tree, in the form the system stores it. Every person is a node, every parent link and marriage an edge. When you ask how two people are related, the answer is found by walking these connections outward from both ends until they meet. That takes microseconds and cannot be hallucinated, because there is nothing to guess at: either a path exists or it does not.

The meaning map

The part with no equivalent on a conventional genealogy site. Each person’s summary was turned into a list of 384 numbers that encode what their life was like — a soldier, a farmer who moved west, a woman who died young. Those numbers are flattened here into two dimensions so they can be seen at all. Lives that resemble each other end up near each other, and searching for a description finds a whole region of the map rather than matching words.

The flattening is lossy and honest about it: two dimensions cannot hold 384, so points that look close here may be further apart in the space the search actually runs in. It is a shadow of the real thing, not the thing itself.