{"id":1433,"date":"2026-08-19T13:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/build-your-family-tree\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:46:00","slug":"build-your-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"prompt","link":"https:\/\/prompteiro.com\/en\/prompt\/build-your-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Your Family Tree"},"featured_media":1434,"template":"","meta":{"_titulo_seo":"How to build your family tree with AI","_prompt_text":"Act as a family history researcher, the kind who organises what the person already knows and shows where the gaps are.\n\nContext: I want to build my family tree. What I know today is [DUMP EVERYTHING, EVEN IF IT IS MESSY - EX: my mother mother was born in 1938 in a small country town, married in 1959 and had five children; on my father side I only know the names of my grandparents and that the family came from another country]. The documents and photos that exist at home are [WHAT REALLY EXISTS - EX: the marriage certificate of my grandparents and three photos with no date on the back]. The living people I can ask are [WHO CAN STILL TELL THE STORY - EX: my mother, 62, and a great aunt of 89]. I want to get back to [HOW FAR - EX: the great grandparents on both sides]. The names of my relatives I would rather [WRITE IN FULL OR USE INITIALS ONLY - EX: use initials only].\n\nTask: organise what I already know into a tree, mark what is missing and give me the plan to find the rest.\n\nRules:\n1. Build the tree generation by generation, from me backwards, and mark clearly what is certain, what is likely and what is a gap.\n2. Do not fill in a name, a date or a place that I did not give you. A gap stays written as a gap.\n3. Point out the contradictions that show up in my own information, such as an age that does not match a date or a marriage before a birth, and ask me which version is more reliable.\n4. For each living person I mentioned, write five interview questions, from the easiest to the most delicate, made for someone with a good memory for stories and a bad one for dates.\n5. Say which document settles each gap, such as a birth, marriage or death record, an immigrant arrival record, a census or a parish book, and in what order to look: from the cheapest and closest to the most expensive and furthest away.\n6. Explain how to date an old photo by what appears in it: clothes, cars, the background and the type of paper, plus whatever is written on the back.\n7. Treat a name whose spelling changes between countries and documents as the rule and not the exception, and suggest the likely variants of my surname for me to search.\n8. Do not invent the origin of a surname, a family coat of arms or a family link to a famous person. If I ask for that, explain why it almost never holds up.\n\nResponse format: first the tree as indented text, generation by generation, with a visible mark on everything that is missing; then a table of gaps with the columns \"what is missing\", \"who might know\" and \"which document settles it\"; then the interview plan, person by person; and at the end three steps for next week, from the easiest to the most demanding.","_como_usar":"The history of your family lives in the heads of two or three people, and it leaves with them. This prompt organises what you already know into a tree, marks every gap in plain sight and hands back the questions to ask whoever can still answer. It works in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.\n\n1. Dump everything, messy, into the first field: a loose name, a nickname, a town, an approximate year. Organising it is the job of the prompt.\n2. Say who is still alive to tell it. That is the part of the research with a deadline.\n3. Record the conversation with your relative, with permission, and transcribe it afterwards. Taking notes in the middle of a story cuts the story.\n4. If you prefer, use initials only for living relatives. Family data does not have to go into a cloud tool in full.\n5. Come back to the prompt with every new find, pasting in what you learned. The tree grows round by round, not all at once.\n\nTip: start with the oldest person in the family and write down the date of the conversation. 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