rfsbraz/genealogy
Evidence-based genealogy research skills: plan, find sources and archives, read records and handwriting, resolve identities, and write cited conclusions.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user asks to write to an archive, registry or researcher and track replies and follow-ups. Not for finding which archive to ask.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs an onsite archive visit or a brief for a record agent, for material that is not online. Not for online catalogue searches.
Use when genealogy-mode hands off a new case, an imported tree or a new collection: audits starting evidence and sets research questions. Not for opening a case, which genealogy-mode does.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs a page ledger or rereading queue for long or interrupted documents under a token budget. Not for reading the handwriting itself.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user has new records or transcriptions to turn into cited observations, without deciding identity or kinship. Not for transcribing images.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs households, kinship or community networks rebuilt from linked evidence. Not for deciding if two mentions are one person.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user brings consented DNA results to a kinship or ancestry question. Not for choosing a DNA test or for questions with no DNA data.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs an old record translated with its legal, religious and kinship terms kept exact. Not for reading handwriting or modern text.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user must decide whether record mentions are the same person: common names, aliases, merges. Not for relationships between known people.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user wants a disputed identity, parentage or argument challenged by an independent review. Not for a first evaluation of the evidence.
Use when the user says 'start my tree', 'interview me' or /tree: builds a first family tree one question at a time. Not for searching records, which genealogy-mode handles.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs a historical place resolved to its jurisdictions, institutions and record practices. Not for finding the records held there.
Use when the user wants to start a genealogy case, research ancestors or descendants, or resume family-history work; plans and routes to specialists. Not for code trees or DNA kit shopping.
Use when the user asks for /story or an ancestor's life told as a readable narrative, keeping records, inference and invented scenes apart. Not for finding records or proving facts.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user plans or analyses family interviews, letters, photos or inherited stories. Not for the first tree interview, which genealogy-interview runs.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user meets a new birthplace, origin or migration and needs the country's sources mapped. Not for searching a known collection's entries.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user must judge whether an identity, parentage, event or origin claim meets the evidence standard. Not for gathering more records.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs handwritten records read with four separate reading methods and reconciled. Not for typed text or a quick first pass over long files.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs a record downloaded, browsed page by page or ordered, with provenance kept. Not for deciding which collection to search.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user wants findings written up as cited reports, timelines, trees or handoffs. Not for literary life stories, which genealogy-narrative writes.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs the archives, registries or libraries that hold records for a place and period. Not for writing to them or searching their catalogues.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs case evidence kept consistent after discoveries, merges, imports or corrections. Not for planning the next search.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs the next search chosen, competing explanations tested or a stalled case unblocked. Not for running the searches themselves.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs collections, volumes or entries found for an open question in catalogues and indexes. Not for mapping a new country's sources.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user needs a diplomatic reading of chosen pages using four distinct handwriting methods. Not for a fast first pass, which transcribe-quick does.
Use when genealogy-mode or the user wants a fast first reading of a long document for searchable text and leads. Not for consequential readings, which need transcribe-detailed.