Public beta feature map

Tools for turning research into ancestor stories.

This is not a mass-market genealogy site yet. It is a working beta for collecting the evidence, context, relationships, places, and memories needed to speak for ancestors with care.

Working Now

  • FamilySearch capture intake and vault merge workflow
  • People, places, events, sources, memories, documents, and research log views
  • Research readiness checks for biography, timeline, relationships, key records, memories, and place context
  • Context-pack driven Story Writer for draft narratives and research-gap notes
  • Story Studio for reviewing saved drafts and explicitly publishing story pages

Being Worked On

  • A stronger person overview that starts with story readiness but keeps dense operating data close
  • Published story pages that show narrative first, then evidence, places, events, and memories
  • Clearer research queue labels for what blocks drafting versus publishing
  • More useful beta homepage, features, and roadmap language for testers

Being Explored

  • Photo and document analysis for old family media
  • Timeline and locality context tools that connect people to towns, churches, eras, and news
  • Better public story URLs and richer sharing controls
  • AI side tools for transcription, source comparison, research planning, and book assembly

The product arc

Collect operating data, understand context, identify research gaps, write drafts, review the grounding, then publish intentionally.

Intake
Vault
Research
Stories