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Help shape AP Family Research

AP Family Research is being built now. It is a private workbench, so we cannot learn from published sites the way we can elsewhere — we have to ask. Your input should shape the direction more than our guesses do.

Now live Free on WordPress.org, with a Pro version from AncestorPress. This page is about where AP Family Research is heading next.

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

  • Fast capture of certificates, notes and images
  • Work organised around research questions
  • An honest research log, negative searches included
  • Promotion of hardened conclusions into your tree, with citations attached

Under evaluation6

  • Low-friction intake, such as capture by emailPro
  • Full-text search across your own document imagesPro
  • Richer task and brick-wall trackingPro
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) access, so your own AI assistant can work alongside the research log: read-only, on your own site, and only when you switch it onPro
  • Protected files, so a document cannot be opened from its direct linkFree
  • DNA matches as evidence, imported from FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage and GEDmatch filesPro

Being considered4

  • Scoped private collaboration between a few named researchers, not a public networkPro
  • Deeper transcription of your own artefactsPro
  • Relationship estimates from shared DNA, and a simple chromosome mapPro
  • A private client workspace for professional genealogistsPro

Suggest a feature

Tell us what we have missed

Research is private work, so nobody sees how you actually do it — which means we cannot copy it, only ask about it. If your way of working does not fit what we are building, or something you rely on is missing, we would genuinely rather hear it than not.

Every suggestion from a working researcher is read and weighed.

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