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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.

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Where we are looking

No fixed roadmap yet — at this stage your input steers it. What moves left depends on what you tell us.

Tags show whether we expect each feature to be Free or Pro. This may change as features are built.

Recently shipped4

  • 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 evaluation10

  • Branches, and more than one branch per personPro
  • A heritage record-type packPro
  • Deeper index and image publishing for public accessPro
  • 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 onPro
  • GEDCOM 7 and GEDZip importFree
  • Updating an existing archive from a new GEDCOM file without starting againFree
  • An importer for existing RootsPersona sitesFree
  • Redirects from old TNG and RootsPersona page addresses, so moving keeps your search rankingsPro
  • Places shown on a mapPro
  • A sample tree and first-run guide, so your first pages appear in minutesFree

Being considered5

  • Timeline and anniversary surfacing across the archivePro
  • A preservation-focused hosted option, with data always exportablePro
  • Members-only viewing of chosen branches, working with membership pluginsPro
  • DNA-supported relationship markers that show a conclusion without exposing match dataPro
  • Structured data so ancestor pages show well in search resultsPro

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.

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