Chronicle Makers Tools

Research tools for family historians. Bring your research the way it is today — in folders, in a tree, half of it in your head. The tools sort it, check it, and hand you the next step. Available only to members of the Chronicle Makers Community.

Shelf Check: Start here, at the beginning of a research project. Send a brain dump of everything you know and think, your research log, and a screenshot of your records folder. Messy is normal. Get your own thinking back organized, what you hold, where your notes disagree, and which records to transcribe first.

Second Look: (Coming Soon) Works inside Claude or ChatGPT. Do a research job in your own AI, then ask for a Second Look. It checks your work against your own records: what holds up, what is missing, and one next step. It never adds a fact.

Research Brain: (Coming Soon) Your research and your thinking, kept as you work. Tell your AI what you did after a session. It files a dated research note and updates your research log. Pick up where you left off, any time.

Ancestor Research Inventory: Use at the close of a research project. Every fact from your transcribed records, every conflict named, every source weighed. A plain reading of where the research stands: not yet, or complete for right now.

Who the tools are for: Chronicle Makers members researching their own families. Personal family research only.

How to get access: The tools come with Chronicle Makers membership. Join the community, sign the member agreement inside it, and your access opens.

Current Chronicle Makers Members can sign in here: