How I Used AI to Trace 12 Generations of My Family Tree

My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it stopped at my grandparents. I was never very interested in my genealogy, but I decided to see if AI would be a good tool for this. TL;DR: Yes, it is, and even more than that. In a little less than one month, I managed to gather more than 600 individuals and get back 12 generations in some branches.

In this post, I want to explain how I did it so that you can do the same.

Setup

I decided to handle the project like any other software project:

• git.
• A git provider. I'm using both Codeberg and GitHub. See below for the rationale.
• Cloudflare Pages to visualize the tree.

I searched a bit about how to store data and found the GEDCOM format...

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