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New to AI for family history? Choose your path: free AI course, the writing community, or the complete AI genealogy guide.
AI for family history is the difference between decades of research sitting in a box and a finished story your family reads.
You found Chronicle Makers. That means you have research — maybe years of it — and you want it to become something real. Or you're just starting and you want to do it right from the beginning.
Either way, you're in the right place. Here's where to go next.
I'm new to AI and want to learn the basics
You've heard about AI for genealogy but haven't tried it, or you tried it once and it gave you something useless. Start here.
The free AI Beginners Course walks you through what AI can actually do for family history research — no tech background required. By the end, you'll have used AI on your own records and seen what it can do with your actual ancestors.
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I have years of research and I'm ready to write
You don't need more records. You need a way to turn what you have into a story your family can read.
Chronicle Makers is a structured community built around one goal: finishing. The STORI Method gives you a five-step path from scattered research to completed chronicle. The 10-Day Writing Sprint has a 95% completion rate. Members finish because the structure works.
If you've been researching for years and never written anything your family has read, this is the room where that changes.
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I'm researching now and want AI to help
You're actively working on an ancestor — census records, deeds, probate, immigration papers — and you want to know which AI tools help and how to use them without getting bad information.
The AI Genealogy Guide is the starting point. It covers which tools work for which tasks, what to watch out for, and how to verify what AI tells you. Every recommendation comes from tested workflows on real Pennsylvania records.
About Chronicle Makers
Chronicle Makers was built by Denyse Allen — a Pennsylvania genealogist, author of four books (two in the DAR Library permanent collection), and the person who figured out how to make AI actually useful for family history writing.
The community runs on Skool. The newsletter runs on Substack. The website you're reading now is where the guides, case studies, and frameworks live.
Your family's stories deserve to exist outside your head. Start wherever feels right.