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own museum

Bring the box of papers. Vitrine builds the tree, reads every document, and gives your family a guide that answers from your own records, citing each fact.

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Letter from Sara, New York, 9 June 1925

Two hands on one sheet: typed by Ernst, written by Sara. Transcribed by the Reader.

“Ernst left this letter for me to read and mail to you. He sailed this A.M. and got off in good spirits…”

People found, linked to the tree as unreviewed

Ernst, “your devoted son”, who sailed that morning
Sara, who signs as their “affectionate daughter”
Father and Mother F., to whom they write
Miriam, sent a kiss

Places · New York, Cuba

A cabinet card portrait of an unidentified woman with curled hair and a jewelled comb, undated — A cabinet card, undated. Nobody has named her yet

The second page of a letter: three typed lines signed Ernst, then a handwritten note from Sara to Father and Mother F. — Letter, New York, 1925 · read and transcribed

Four men of the Benvenuti family posed with a piano, a double bass, a flute and a violin, about 1896 — The Benvenuti family of musicians, about 1896

A tree centred on you

Open any page and it says how that person is related to you. Your cousin opens the same museum and finds themselves at the centre.

Royal Houses of Europe · seen from Queen Victoria

George III1738–1820grandfather Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz1744–1818grandmother Francis of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld1750–18062grandfather Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf1757–18312grandmother Edward, Duke of Kent1767–1820father Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld1786–1861mother Queen Victoria1819–1901Centred here Prince Albert1819–1861husband Victoria1840–1901daughter Edward VII1841–1910son, her heir Alice1843–1878daughter Alfred1844–1900son

The royal demo's tree, centred on Queen Victoria, with four of her nine children. A merge mark means the same ancestor stands on two lines.

Royal Houses of Europe · seen from Queen Victoria

George III1738–1820grandfather Edward, Duke of Kent1767–1820father Queen Victoria1819–1901Centred here Edward VII1841–1910son, her heir

The same tree, in its direct-line view

Four generations of one family in 1928: a great-grandfather seated, his son and grandson standing, a small boy on a chair

Three ways to look

Follow one line back, see every ancestor at once, or open the whole family with its in-laws and cousins.

A carte de visite of a girl standing beside a small boy seated on a rustic chair, 1865

Living people stay private

A lock on every living relative: their dates, photographs and papers are seen only by family. Children see only what one of your family's curators approved.

Every paper in the box, read

Photograph a letter, a certificate, an old card. The Reader writes out what it says, translates it and explains the old words. The people, dates and places it finds go into your tree marked “not yet checked”, until someone in your family confirms them.

These examples are public papers from Wikimedia Commons.

What the Reader found

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Typed on the form

What it means

Typed on the form

I was born in Gouff, Greece, on Dec. 10, 1897: Born 10 December 1897 in Bouf, Greece
The name of my wife is Emagene: Married Emagene, 27 April 1930, in Mansfield, Ohio
lawful entry … New York, N.Y. under the name of Georgi, Vassil: Arrived in New York, 19 December 1913, as Vassil Georgi
on the vessel SS Prinzess Irene: Crossed on the SS Prinzess Irene

An old term · “Declaration of intention”: an immigrant’s first papers. The petition for citizenship came at least two years later.

Found in it, added to the tree as “not yet checked”

Vasil George, born 1897; a cook in Highland Park, Michigan
Emagene, his wife, born 1911 in Caledonia, Ohio
His village is typed “Gouff” here and “Bouff” below: we think both are Bouf, in Greece

A hand-coloured woodcut baptism letter: a baptism at the font in the centre, saints in the corners, red wax seals at the folds — A Taufbrief, 19th century. An old German word the Reader explains: a baptism letter from a godparent, folded around a coin.

A United States Declaration of Intention, filed in Detroit on 26 April 1940 by Vasil George, a cook born in Greece in 1897, with his photograph and signature — Declaration of Intention, Detroit, 26 April 1940

A cabinet card of three small children seated on a fur rug; the studio's name is printed down the right edge — A cabinet card, 1915. The Reader read the studio’s name down its edge: J. E. Reeves, Canning Town. The children are not named yet.

An open parish register from Villasayas, Spain, handwritten between 1534 and 1812

Parish register of Villasayas, Spain

Kept from 1534 to 1812 · read page by page

A curator, someone in your family you chose, compares the reading with the page. What they confirm gets the Registro stamp. Curators are always family, never Vitrine staff.

The AI never stamps its own reading.

Ask the guide

It answers from your museum's own records and cites every fact. It says how sure it is, and when the records don't say, it says so. For the world around them, it looks up the history and keeps the passage that says it.

Questions the royal demo's guide answered

The guide · Royal Houses of Europe

Answers only from the archive, with sources.

Who were Queen Victoria's parents, and where was each born?
Queen Victoria’s parents were Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, born at Buckingham Palace, and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, born in Coburg. Their birth details are marked probable in the collection. 1 2

A real answer from the royal demo's guide, asked on October 27, 2026 with GPT-6 Luna, shown as it was written: open a numbered source to see the record behind it. It used 2 tools · 2 sources.

Or bring your own agent

Connect your own Claude or ChatGPT to your family's museum. It reads what you may read and proposes changes for your family's curators to decide, under the same permissions. Children and guests never can.

Where they came from

Every birthplace goes on the map, and each move from a parent's birthplace to a child's becomes a route, generation by generation. Pick the years, the generations, one side of the family, or the borders of the time.

Open this map in the royal demo

Vitrine's map of the royal demo: 424 routes of Queen Victoria's ancestors across Europe, with the timeline from 1420 to today and the generations to choose from — Queen Victoria's ancestors on the royal demo's map: 424 routes, 1420 to today

What was it like? London, 1819

A Snapshot of London Life Around 1819
A 1817 walk offers a snapshot close to 1819: in St James’s Park, Richard Phillips saw 100 mothers, nurses and other adults with as many children, drawn by milk warm from the cow; he estimated that 16,000 people passed to and from London each day between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., within seven miles. A Regency-era account describes lively street life, including ceremonies and poor people persistently asking the better-off for payment; it also says 20,000 visitors attended the Watercolour Society’s annual exhibition around 1810.
“On my entrance into the park, I was amused and interested by an assemblage of 100 mothers, nurses, and valetudinarians, accompanied by as many children, who are drawn together at this hour every fine morning by the metropolitan luxury of milk warm from the cow. I remarked that few were walking in my direction; but that all the faces and foot-steps were earnestly directed towards London.”
Found on the web · londonist.com · 1 more source · not yet reviewed

Guillaume de L'Isle's map of Europe, 1700 — The Europe most of them were born inL'Isle, L'Europe, 1700

How it starts

First, your surnames
The names you and your parents carry are enough to begin.

Or a GEDCOM file

Start from yourself and grow it, or bring the file another genealogy site exports.

0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Vasil /George/
2 NAME Vassil /Georgi/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 10 DEC 1897
2 PLAC Bouf, Greece
1 OCCU Cook
1 FAMS @F1@
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1@
1 WIFE @I2@
1 MARR
2 DATE 27 APR 1930
2 PLAC Mansfield, Ohio

Then the box of papers
Photographs, letters, certificates, medals: whatever the family kept, even the damaged.
Your curators check
What the Reader finds waits, unreviewed, until a relative your family chose as curator confirms it.
Checked against the declaration
Vasil George
Birth
10 December 1897, Bouf, Greece
Arrival
19 December 1913, New York
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A register of immigrants received in São Paulo in April 1888: families listed by name on the left page, the right page blank

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