A blog about using AI in genealogy: tools, prompts and experiments.https://vibe-genealogy.com/enhttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/family-atlas/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/family-atlas/My early prototype, Family Atlas: open a GEDCOM file and get tree charts, analytics and shareable stories. Your file never leaves your device.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTfamily-tree-analysishttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/3d-model-great-grandfathers-farmstead/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/3d-model-great-grandfathers-farmstead/With Astra and Codex, I rebuilt my great-grandfather's lost farmyard in 3D from my mom's pencil sketch, all the way to an architectural render in Blender.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTlocal-historyhttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/astra-handwriting-transcription/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/astra-handwriting-transcription/OpenAI's new Astra model reads old handwriting far better than before. I tested it on revision lists and parish registers from my ancestral village in Russia.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTrevision-listsparish-registershttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/revision-lists-with-an-ai-agent/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/revision-lists-with-an-ai-agent/How Claude Code and Codex dig potential marriages, epidemics and other village history out of revision lists, the Russian Empire's poll-tax censuses.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTrevision-listslocal-historyhttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/parish-register-transcription-app/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/parish-register-transcription-app/A Google AI Studio app that transcribes birth, marriage and death records from Russian parish registers in batches, guided by a village list and a sample page.Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTparish-registershttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/can-ai-transcribe-a-parish-register/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/can-ai-transcribe-a-parish-register/An honest test: Claude Opus, GPT-5.3-Codex and Gemini 3 Pro transcribe 20 pages of a 1917 Russian parish register. None of them was perfect.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTparish-registershttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/village-history-website-in-30-minutes/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/village-history-website-in-30-minutes/A step-by-step recipe: build and publish a local history website about your ancestral village with Claude Code or Cursor in half an hour, no programmer needed.Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTlocal-historyhttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/every-soldier-from-my-village/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/every-soldier-from-my-village/How I used Claude in Chrome to collect every WWII soldier from my village in Pamyat Naroda into one spreadsheet in a couple of hours instead of a week.Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTlocal-historyhttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/new-camera-angles-for-archive-photos/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/new-camera-angles-for-archive-photos/Instead of creepy animated portraits, move the camera: how to get three new views of one old family photo with a Google AI Studio tool.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/a-real-insight-from-gedcom-analysis/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/a-real-insight-from-gedcom-analysis/My GEDCOM analysis flagged my great-great-grandparents' 1893 wedding. Their first child's birth, 64 days later, told a very human story.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTfamily-tree-analysishttps://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/gedcom-analysis-skill/https://vibe-genealogy.com/posts/gedcom-analysis-skill/A free skill for Claude Code that analyzes your GEDCOM file and flags weddings during fasts, possible premarital pregnancies, epidemics and other anomalies.Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTfamily-tree-analysis