Guides for AP Family Research - capturing evidence, working your research questions, the research log, promoting a proven conclusion into your tree, privacy and export, and the Pro features. Search the knowledge base, or pick a guide below.
Guides
- Getting Started - What the workbench is for, the first capture, the tabs.
- Capturing Artefacts - Phone capture, bulk upload, grouping, filing and discarding.
- Importing a Spreadsheet - CSV and TXT, column matching, keeping skipped columns, 20,000 rows.
- Artefacts, Transcriptions and Comments - Verbatim storage, transcript versus comments, provenance.
- Research Questions, Evidence and Brick Walls - Questions, conjectures, evidence, people and plan steps.
- The Research Log - Entries that write themselves, and why negative results matter.
- Promoting a Conclusion into Your Tree - What promotion needs, what it writes, and why it is one-way.
- Privacy, Your Data and Export - Private by definition, the export downloads, uninstalling.
- Pro Features - AI assistance, the living-person protection, duplicates, search and views.
- FAQ and Troubleshooting - Common questions and quick fixes.