For familiesEN · RU

Your family'sstory, finallywritten down.

A small workshop of specialised AI agents turns the photographs, documents and half-remembered names you've inherited — into a sourced, beautifully written family history. And eventually, a book you'll be proud to leave behind.

· In every chapter
Sources in the footnotes
Doubtful facts marked for your review
The book · vol. I
· How it works
We help you find open records and draft the letters to request them.
Scroll · the workshop is open
Sources we help
you search & reach
FamilySearch · InternationalWikiTree · CollaborativeWikidata · Linked recordsRGADA · Russian State Archive of Ancient ActsState Archive of KostromaTsGIA · St. PetersburgYad Vashem · Names DatabaseNational Archives · UKArchives Nationales · FranceBundesarchiv · GermanyFamilySearch · InternationalWikiTree · CollaborativeWikidata · Linked recordsRGADA · Russian State Archive of Ancient ActsState Archive of KostromaTsGIA · St. PetersburgYad Vashem · Names DatabaseNational Archives · UKArchives Nationales · FranceBundesarchiv · Germany
The workshop

Seven specialised agents.
One book.

Not a chatbot. A small team of patient craftspeople — each one trained on one part of the work. They run in parallel. You stay in the room. They defer to you on the human parts.

  1. 01
    Researcher
    Finds the records
  2. 02
    Archivist
    Checks the evidence
  3. 03
    Historian
    Sets the scene
  4. 04
    Interviewer
    Asks what only you know
  5. 05
    Writer
    Composes the chapters
  6. 06
    Editor
    Reads it cold
  7. 07
    Designer
    Sets the page
Researcher01 / 07

Looking for your family in open records.

The researcher looks up the people in your tree in open sources and shows you each possible match with the record behind it. Nothing it finds enters the book until you confirm it.

A weathered leather-bound parish register open on a dark wooden table, entries written in iron-gall ink
· Found · waiting for your decision
Your call

Every agent's output is yours to accept, edit, or reject. No silent decisions.

  • Accept
  • Edit
  • Reject

Searches open sources for the people in your tree and brings back what it finds, with the record it came from, for you to confirm or reject.

How it works

Five steps.
Not five years.

Traditional genealogy takes years and a stranger. 7gens turns what you already have into a working draft — fast — then refines it at your pace, without surrendering control.

01
Bring what you have
Photos, letters, names, dates. A shoebox or a folder of scans. Even rough memories. We organise everything.
· Upload anything · pause anytime
02
The workshop opens
Seven AI agents — researcher, archivist, historian, interviewer, writer, editor, designer — begin work in parallel.
· In English and Russian
03
Sources are verified
Every claim is traced to an archive, registry, or interview. Disputed and pending facts are flagged for you.
· Provenance for every line
04
You stay in the room
Approve, correct, or rewrite anything. Add stories only your family knows. The AI defers to you on the human parts.
· No silent edits
05
Your book is bound
A typeset, indexed, printable family history. Hardcover, foil-stamped, delivered. Generations later, it still works.
· Hardcover · printed to order
The pace
A first draft the same day. The finished book when every line is yours.
See what's inside the book
Inside the book

What every book is made of.
Written, sourced, yours.

Not a printout of a database: connected chapters written from your research, with the evidence kept in the book and every line open to your changes.

The anatomy of a page — an illustration
  1. A chapter for each generation

    Connected prose about who they were, where they lived and what changed — with the history around them.

  2. Sources in the footnotes

    Every fact comes from your tree or a source you can see.

  3. Doubtful facts, marked for you

    Where the editor is unsure, the fact is marked and you approve it or fix it. Nothing is smoothed over.

  4. Your photographs, in the text

    Placed beside the paragraph that names the people they show.

Also in the book
  • Maps and a drawn family tree
  • A generational register for deep pedigrees
  • Every chapter editable — the book re-flows around your changes
The hardcover
Linen, with a dust jacket
US Letter · 8.5 × 11 in
Six linen colours · foil-stamped spine
Printed and bound to order
The book

An object built to outlast you.

A hardcover book, printed and bound to order on quality paper. Designed to be opened by a great-grandchild who never met you.

Binding
Linen hardcover · dust jacket
Paper
80 lb coated · matte
Cover
Printed & bound to order
Pages
Illustrated · full colour
Trim size
216 × 279 mm
For families

Three reasons people start.
One reason they finish.

An old map of Eastern Europe under a brass magnifying glass
For diaspora families

Reconnect with a country whose archives you can't read.

The records are still there in the country your family left — often in a script you can't read. 7gens helps you find and request them, and the book comes back in your language.

As a 75th-birthday gift

The first time their own story has been written.

You bring the conversations and the photographs. The book comes back with their grandmother in it.

For young grandchildren

A book they'll open when they finally want to know.

Set in print, not in software that will be gone in twenty years. The book outlives the platform.

Pricing

Plain rates.
No hidden chapters.

Discover
Free

Explore your family archive — free.


  • GEDCOM import & tree analysis
  • Open archive search
  • Your first full book draft — free
  • Read every page as a watermarked preview
Studio
$79
/ month

For larger archives and serious research.


  • More monthly AI credits
  • Multiple book projects
  • Advanced layouts & more previews
  • Family collaboration
  • Priority rendering

Subscriptions cover the AI workshop and the digital book; AI credits are included with each plan. Printed copies are ordered separately. Every plan includes provenance for every line, full export of your archive, and the right to walk away with your data at any time.

Questions, plainly answered

Most of these came up
in the first conversation.

A database hands you rows. 7gens hands you chapters. Our agents do the research a genealogist would do, then write what they found in prose worth reading aloud — and bind it into a book. Every claim is sourced; nothing is invented.
No. Each agent is constrained to cite a source — an archive, a registry, a conversation with you — for every factual claim. Anything that can't be cited is marked "pending" or "disputed", surfaced to you, and never quietly slipped into the prose.
Every word. The writer agent defers to you on the human parts. You can correct a date, rewrite a paragraph in your own voice, or throw out a chapter entirely. The AI re-typesets around your edits.
We work in English and Russian. Your book is delivered in whichever of the two you choose.
It is yours. You can export the full archive — photographs, transcripts, citations, drafts — in one click, at any time. We do not train models on family material. We do not sell, share, or syndicate your archive.
If you already have a family tree (a GEDCOM), the workshop can draft a first chapter the same day. From there the pace is mostly yours: you review, correct, and add what only your family knows. When the book is final, a foil-stamped hardcover is printed and shipped to order. You set the pace — the workshop pauses when you do.
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· Begin ·

Your family is already a book.
We help you finish it.

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