The rule we build around
Family history has a fabrication problem, and general-purpose AI made it worse. Ask a chatbot for your great-grandmother's census page and it may hand you a district, a sheet, and a line number, all confident and all invented. AncestorIQ is built on the opposite bet: every finding is tied to the source it came from, so you can open the record and check our work. When sources disagree, you see the conflict rather than a smoothed-over answer. And when no record exists, we say so. A gap in the tree is honest. An invented ancestor never is.
The same rule holds for storytelling: video narration is drawn from the sourced records already on your tree, not from what an AI imagines a life might have looked like.
Who writes this site
AncestorIQ launched in 2026 and is built by a small team. The guides, comparisons, and reviews published here are researched, written, and edited by the people building the product, under the shared byline "The AncestorIQ Team." Our comparison pages name us as the publisher and lay out where competitors genuinely win, because a recommendation you can't trust is worth nothing. Where we review other tools' AI features, we've used them hands-on.
Contact
We're early, and most of our energy goes into the product. The best way to find us right now is to use it: start a tree, push Deep Research on a hard question, and see whether the answers hold up. A proper support inbox is on its way.
