AP Family Archive › Future Direction
Help shape AP Family Archive
AP Family Archive is being built now. We are researching what a complete, self-hosted family history site genuinely needs before the scope hardens. Your input should shape the direction more than our guesses do.
Where we are looking
No fixed roadmap yet — at this stage your input steers it. What moves left depends on what you tell us.
Being built now4
- A person page for every ancestor, a family group page for every couple
- Surname index and full search
- Automatic protection for living people
- Full GEDCOM export, always
Under evaluation4
- Branches, and more than one branch per person
- A heritage record-type pack
- Deeper index and image publishing for public access
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) access, so your own AI assistant can answer questions about the archive — read-only, on your own site, and only when you switch it on
Being considered2
- Timeline and anniversary surfacing across the archive
- A preservation-focused hosted option, with data always exportable
Suggest a feature
Tell us what we have missed
Publishing a whole family history is a long project, and the things that matter only show up once you are deep in it. If we have missed something — a record type, a way of presenting a family, a limit you can already see coming — we would genuinely rather hear it now than after the scope hardens.
Every suggestion from someone publishing a real family history is read and weighed.
Need help, or want to talk to us? This page is for ideas and direction. AP Family Archive is not released yet, so it has no support desk or documentation — please get in touch instead.