An AI family history book writer that turns your research into chapters people will read
Years of family research often end up as a tree on a website, a box of certificates and a folder of notes nobody else opens. A family history book turns that into something the next generation will read: the people, the places they lived, the work they did and the choices that brought the family to where it is now.
INKFLOW writes that book from your research. You give it the generations, the dates, the places and the stories handed down. The writer shapes them into chapters and keeps a record of who was born, married and buried when, so the book does not contradict your own findings.
Be clear about what it is not. It is not a genealogy service: it does not search archives, census returns or parish registers, and it cannot know your family's history unless you supply it. The text is AI-generated, and where your records go quiet the writer may fill the silence with plausible detail. Anything that did not happen has to come out.
One surname line, both sides of a marriage, or every branch back to a single couple. A clear scope stops the book sprawling across every cousin you have ever found.
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Turn your records into a brief
Write the generations out in order with what you know of each person: dates, addresses, occupations and the stories attached to them. Note which facts are documented and which are family tradition, and ask for that difference to be kept in the text.
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Read the opening chapters
Three chapters are written free, without a card, which is enough to see whether the tone suits your family before you commit to the rest.
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Check every name and date
Hold each chapter against your tree. A wrong birth year or a swapped spouse is easy to miss in good prose and hard to forgive in print.
How a family history book keeps its generations straight
Repeated names kept apart
Families reuse names: three Williams, two Marys, a son named after his father. The continuity record tracks each person separately, with ages and who is alive or dead in a given year, so the right William dies in the right chapter.
Background for the period
Before writing, the writer researches the world your ancestors lived in: the trades, the towns, what a move across the country or the sea involved. That background is general, not about your family, so check anything it says about a particular place or event.
Room for what is unknown
Every family history has gaps. Decide how you want them handled: left as an open question, or told as what the family believes. If the writer has bridged a gap with an imagined scene, decide whether it stays, clearly marked as imagination, or goes.
A voice for the family
Cosy & warm suits a warm family saga for relatives, Rich & literary suits a researched history for a wider readership, and Heartfelt suits a book built around loss, migration or reunion. Each has a sample to read.
Living relatives
Anyone still alive deserves a say before an adoption, a divorce or an illness goes into print. Share the drafts with them, and leave out what is not yours to tell.
What a family history book usually contains
Most family history books are arranged by generation or by branch, with each chapter following one couple or one household. Many add a family tree, a list of sources and an index of names. INKFLOW writes the chapters. The tree, the photographs and your source list are yours to add when you lay the book out, because it produces text and does not draw or place pictures.
Genealogists care about sources, and so will your more careful relatives. Keep your own reference for each fact as you go. Do not rely on the writer for citations: add them yourself from your research.
Questions
Can it find my ancestors for me?
No. It does not search records or build trees. Do the research first, with archives, record websites or a professional genealogist, and bring what you find.
Can I give it my tree as a file?
Not as a family tree file. Paste the people and facts you want in the book into the brief. The upload on the start page is for a book you have already begun writing, not for a tree or a set of records.
What if two records disagree?
Decide which one you trust and say so in your notes, or ask for both versions to be given. Do not leave that choice to the AI.
Can relatives abroad read it in their language?
The book can be written natively in any of 26 languages. To have a finished book translated for a branch overseas, see the translation page; the result is a translated draft for review, not a certified translation.
Is it ours to print and give away?
Yes. You may print it, share it or sell it, and we claim no ownership. Copyright in AI text is limited and depends on your own contribution and local law; that is general information, not legal advice.