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Genealogy Engineering Platform

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Load genealogy files

Upload a GEDCOM to load or refresh your family data. Limits are set by your tier. Sign in for persistent storage and higher-tier capabilities.

Focus Families

Add Focus Entry

Setup

Who Are You In This Tree?

Find yourself in the loaded tree. This anchors your Focus Family experience — BranchSmith will highlight your direct lines and suggest relevant context throughout the site.

Type a name to search the loaded tree.

Overview

GED Storage

Active GED File

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Focus Families

Focus Rows

Below are specific families that have been selected as "focus families". BranchSmith's navigation and tools will be fine tuned to provide features for these families.

Load a focus CSV to see entries grouped by Scope.

People Search

This is the full directory. Search narrows the list. Clicking a person opens Tree on that person.

Load data to browse people, family links, and IDs.

Tree

Pick a person to render the tree here.

Surname List

Click any surname to narrow the directory to that line.

Load data to build the surname index.

Duplicate Candidates

These are inferred candidates based on similar names, surnames, dates, places, and shared family structure. They are recommendations, not tagged duplicates from the source data.

Manual Check

One or Two IDs

Enter one ID to scan for likely duplicates, or two IDs to compare a specific pair.
Duplicate summary will appear here after the first duplicate pass.
Duplicate suggestions will appear here after a GEDCOM is loaded.

Pruning

Pruning examines your GEDCOM for people and clusters that may be lower-priority or candidates for removal. When Focus Families are in use, it also highlights individuals far removed from the lines you care about most.

Manual Check

One ID

Enter one ID to analyze that person's surrounding cluster for prune risk.

Real-Time

Disconnected Cluster Analysis

Live branch analysis has not run yet.
Disconnected clusters and preservation hints will appear here.

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