My son recently came to me to brag about using AI to find our ancestors. While the results were correct, I didn't learn anything new, as it stopped...
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Great article! I've been working on tooling around GEDCOM myself, so it was really interesting to see how you're using it with AI.
I've recently developed Domorium, an Obsidian extension for working with GEDCOM files. It provides navigation between records and photos and includes a built-in GEDCOM validator.
Might be useful if you continue exploring different ways of working with GEDCOM.
This raises some important points. In practice, I've found that the key is balancing theoretical best practices with pragmatic trade-offs — what works in a blog post doesn't always survive contact with a legacy codebase.
Really interesting approach to genealogy! Treating the research like a software project with Git, GEDCOM, validation, and AI-assisted workflows makes the whole process much more structured and repeatable. I especially liked the trust, but verify point—AI can speed up research, but the sources still matter. There are some great AI and software engineering ideas on codecan.net too.