Product · 2025–2026
Family History Archive
Two centuries of a family, made navigable by the people in it.
A bilingual archive of 3,484 people, 3,061 sources and 2,543 scanned documents, built from a cousin's lifetime of research and used by relatives across two countries.
The hard problem wasn't the data model, it was the audience. The people who most want to use this are elderly, on phones, and split between French and English. Every design decision followed from that: large targets, no jargon, both languages everywhere, and nothing that assumes a mouse.
Access is invite-based and self-service. When a relative requests entry, the system checks their name against the tree and grants access automatically when the match is confident, so nobody waits on me to approve a form.
There is a separate admin surface for reviewing contributions from the family, publishing them into the tree, and answering in the submitter's own language.
