# AncestralFire

> A family history partner. Ask about anyone in your family in your own words; AncestralFire reads your family's tree, searches FamilySearch Family Tree once you connect it, and tells you who they were, with the source behind every fact. Independent; not affiliated with FamilySearch.

## The product
- [How it works](https://ancestral-fire.com/how-it-works): one real conversation, and what it will and won't claim
- [Questions](https://ancestral-fire.com/faq): cost, trying it free, FamilySearch, accuracy, living relatives, privacy
- [Pricing](https://ancestral-fire.com/pricing): searching and understanding your family tree is free
- [Compare](https://ancestral-fire.com/compare): against FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage and Genealogy Genie
- [About](https://ancestral-fire.com/about)
- [For developers and reviewers](https://ancestral-fire.com/docs): the MCP server's address, sign-in, every tool and what it does, its cards and its limits

## Connect it to an assistant
- [Add AncestralFire to your AI](https://ancestral-fire.com/add): the server's address and the steps for each assistant
- [Use it in Claude](https://ancestral-fire.com/claude), [in ChatGPT](https://ancestral-fire.com/chatgpt) and [in Claude Code](https://ancestral-fire.com/claude-code)
- [Every tool, in plain text](https://ancestral-fire.com/llms-full.txt): the address, sign-in, the tools by group and the limits, for an assistant reading without a browser

## Guides
- [How to find your great-grandparents](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/find-your-great-grandparents): You have eight great-grandparents, and you can usually find them in three steps: write down what your family already knows, find your grandparents' death certificates and obituaries (they usually name their parents), then find each family in a census, where they're listed together in one household.
- [What is a GEDCOM file, and how to get yours](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/what-is-a-gedcom-file): A GEDCOM file (.ged) is your family tree saved in the one format every family-tree program understands: every person, date, place and relationship, as plain text.
- [How to use FamilySearch, and what to ask it](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/how-to-use-familysearch): FamilySearch is free: there's only one kind of account, and it costs nothing.
- [How to find where your ancestors came from](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/find-where-your-ancestors-came-from): Work back through your family until you reach the person who arrived, then look for the three records that say where they came from: the census, which asked about immigration in 1900 through 1930; the ship's passenger list, which U.S.
- [Start a family tree from almost nothing](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/start-a-family-tree-from-nothing): Start with yourself and go back one generation at a time: your parents, then your grandparents, writing down only what you know and where you learned it.
- [Is AI genealogy accurate? What to check](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/is-ai-genealogy-accurate): It can be, when it answers from records and says which ones.
- [Second cousin once removed? Work it out](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/relationship-calculator): A second cousin is someone who shares a set of great-grandparents with you, and "once removed" means you are one generation apart: your second cousin's child, or your parent's second cousin.
- [How to read a census record](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/read-a-census-record): A census record shows one household on the day the census was taken: who lived there, how old they were, where they were born, and more questions as the years went on.
- [How to find an ancestor's death certificate](https://ancestral-fire.com/guides/find-a-death-certificate): A death certificate is kept by the state or county where the person died, not the federal government, and not necessarily where they lived or were buried.

## Family trees
- [How AncestralFire uses AI](https://ancestral-fire.com/ai)
- [Famous family trees, told from their records](https://ancestral-fire.com/families)
- [The Kennedy family tree, from Wexford to Dallas](https://ancestral-fire.com/families/kennedy)
- [Queen Victoria's family tree, from Kew to Windsor](https://ancestral-fire.com/families/queen-victoria)
- [The Bourbon family tree: Louis XV, king at five](https://ancestral-fire.com/families/bourbon)
- [The Tudor family tree: Henry VII to James I](https://ancestral-fire.com/families/tudor)