AI-Powered Family History

Discover the roots of who you are

RootWise combines the power of AI with billions of historical records to build your family tree — then lets you converse with ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot to dig deeper into every branch.

Works with your favourite AI assistants

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Claude
Copilot
🌿 Eleanor Hayes
1842 – 1919 · Cornwall, UK
🌿 Thomas Kellner
1839 – 1902 · Bavaria, DE
👤 You
Your story starts here
4.2B+ Historical records indexed
180+ Countries & territories covered
3 AI Assistant integrations
98% Members find new relatives
What we offer

Everything your family history deserves

From census records to ship manifests, RootWise searches where you can't — then presents what it finds in a living, growing tree you can explore and share.

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Deep Internet Search

Our engine combs genealogy databases, digitized newspapers, military records, church archives, and government documents from 180+ countries — in real time.

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DNA Record Matching

Upload your DNA results from any major provider. RootWise cross-references genetic markers with recorded family lines to surface relatives you never knew existed.

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Migration Mapping

Watch your ancestors move across continents. An animated map traces each generation's journey — from village origins to the place you call home today.

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Story Generation

Turn dates and records into compelling narratives. AI writes biographies of each ancestor based on verified facts, historical context, and family documents.

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Collaborative Trees

Invite family members to contribute photos, letters, and memories. Every addition strengthens the tree and notifies the whole family instantly.

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Privacy by Design

Living relatives are always kept private. You control exactly who sees which branches — share publicly, with family only, or keep it entirely to yourself.

AI Integrations

Ask anything. Discover everything.

Connect your tree to the world's most powerful AI assistants. Ask questions in plain language, get answers drawn from your own family data — and share discoveries with a click.

ChatGPT
by OpenAI

Send your tree data directly to ChatGPT for deep conversational research. Ask about historical events your ancestors lived through, generate obituaries, or explore "what if" scenarios about missing branches.

What was life like in 1880s Bavaria?
Write my great-grandmother's biography
Who might be missing from this branch?
Claude
by Anthropic

Claude's nuanced reasoning excels at analysing complex family relationships and conflicting records. Share documents and let Claude reconcile discrepancies, suggest research paths, and surface unexpected connections.

Reconcile these two conflicting records
Suggest archives I haven't searched yet
Analyse this old letter for clues
Microsoft Copilot
by Microsoft

Copilot integrates natively with Word and Excel to help you build family history books, format timelines, and generate shareable reports — all pre-populated with your RootWise data.

Create a printable family history book
Export timeline to Word document
Format my tree as a shareable report
Getting started

Your tree, growing in minutes

No genealogy expertise needed. Enter what you know and let RootWise — and your chosen AI — do the searching.

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Enter yourself

Start with your name, birthdate, and a few relatives. That's all it takes to plant your tree.

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AI searches the web

RootWise scans billions of records across archives, databases, and historical documents — automatically.

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Review & expand

Confirm matches, add photos and stories, then invite family to fill the gaps from their own memories.

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Chat with AI

Connect to ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot to ask questions, generate stories, and share discoveries.

Family stories

Discoveries that changed everything

Real families, real revelations. Here's what members have uncovered using RootWise and AI together.

★★★★★

I asked Claude to analyse a ship manifest I uploaded and within minutes it had connected my great-great-grandfather to a family in County Cork we never knew existed. Three cousins reached out within the week.

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Margaret K.
Boston, Massachusetts
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Using ChatGPT through RootWise I was able to write a full biography of my grandmother based on the records the platform found. She passed before I could ask her these things. This felt like having the conversation I never got to have.

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David R.
Toronto, Ontario
★★★★★

Copilot turned my RootWise tree into a 40-page family history book in under an hour. My whole family received a copy at Christmas. My uncle cried when he saw photos of his grandfather's village in Poland.

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Anna W.
Chicago, Illinois
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