A family database. 1,251 people across five centuries. What we know, what we don't, and the shape of forgetting.
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—People
—Surnames
—Relationships
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Advanced Search
Query by name, date, place, confidence, document type, OCR text
Research Hub
Duplicates, missing data, anomalies, unmatched docs — ranked leads
People
Browse all 1,251 individuals — full profiles & confidence
Surnames
600 family names — browse by lineage
Timeline
Who was alive when — animated year-by-year
Globe
1,959 people across 562 locations on a 3D globe — migration arcs, era colors
Places
Precision map — pinpointed towns to lost homelands, German heritage glow, migration arcs
Edit / Update
Dad's desk — review, correct, and annotate records
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Built from a database started by George Lack. Extended by Ryan Lack. This project lives at the intersection of genealogy and art practice — measuring what survives, performing what doesn't, and refusing to let people be forgotten.