AP One-Name Studies › Future Direction
Help shape AP One-Name Studies
Shipped early and lean, on purpose. We are now researching what one-name studies genuinely need — and where the gaps are. 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.
Tags show whether we expect each feature to be Free or Pro. This may change as features are built.
Recently shipped4
- Saveable import templates (now free)
- Structured census fields
- Undoable imports — every import is a record set
- Archive / handover export
Under evaluation6
- Richer distribution analysis and mappingPro
- Publishing to community standardPro
- Deeper reconstitutionPro
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) access, so your own AI assistant can query the study: read-only, on your own site, and only when you switch it onPro
- Y-DNA surname project results by lineage, anonymised and published only with testers' consentPro
- Tested on the Guild of One-Name Studies' WordPress hosting, with an export that suits its legacy sitesFree
Being considered3
- Backing a study with record collectionsPro
- Society-facing featuresPro
- More than one study per sitePro
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Tell us what we have missed
One-name study is a deep field with its own conventions. If we have missed something that matters to your study — a Guild practice, a niche of the work, a feature you cannot do without — we would genuinely rather hear it than not.
Every suggestion from a working one-namer is read and weighed.
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