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RGADA · Russian State Archive of Ancient ActsState Archive of KostromaMemorial · MoscowFamily Search · InternationalGHA · German Historical ArchivesAncestry · RecordsYad Vashem · Names DatabaseTsGIA · St. PetersburgNational Archives · UKArchives Nationales · FranceRGADA · Russian State Archive of Ancient ActsState Archive of KostromaMemorial · MoscowFamily Search · InternationalGHA · German Historical ArchivesAncestry · RecordsYad Vashem · Names DatabaseTsGIA · St. PetersburgNational Archives · UKArchives Nationales · France

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.

01
Researcher
Finds the records
02
Archivist
Verifies the evidence
03
Historian
Sets the scene
04
Interviewer
Asks what only you know
05
Writer
Composes the chapters
06
Editor
Reads it cold
07
Designer
Sets the page

Researcher · just now01 / 07

Searching marriage records in Yaroslavl (1888–1895).

I cross-referenced your great-grandfather's name across three regional fonds and found a marriage entry that matches every date and place you remembered. I've queued the original page for the archivist.

Weathered leather-bound 19th-century parish register open on a dark wood archive table, Cyrillic entries in iron-gall ink

· RGADA · F.350 · op.2 · d.1547

Your call

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

Searches archives, parish books, census rolls, military lists and emigration manifests in the languages your family travelled through.

How it works

Five steps.
Not five years.

Traditional genealogy takes a decade and a stranger. 7gens delivers a working draft of your family book in weeks — without surrendering control.

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

The workshop opens

Seven AI agents — researcher, archivist, historian, interviewer, writer, editor, designer — begin work in parallel.

· Working in 14 languages

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

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

Your book is bound

A typeset, indexed, printable family history. Hardcover, foil-stamped, delivered. Generations later, it still works.

· Hardcover · sewn binding

The average timeline

First chapter in10 days. Bound book in 8 weeks.

See a sample chapter

A sample chapter

This is what the book reads like.
Patient. Specific. Sourced.

Not a printout of a database. Prose worth reading aloud — every line traceable to an archive, a registry, or a conversation with someone who remembers.

Chapter · IVVASILYEV — KOSTROMA — 1894

The year Eleonora arrived by sleigh, the river was already three weeks frozen.

She was three months old, wrapped in two shawls and her mother's heaviest fur. The registry book at the parish of the Holy Trinity records her baptism on the eleventh of February — the priest's hand small and tilted, the ink already brown.

Her father, Mikhail Petrovich, signed beneath the entry with the careful, deliberate strokes of a man who had learned to write late.¹ The archivist agent flagged this signature against three other documents in the regional fond; it matches them within tolerance.

What the registry does not record is that the family had travelled forty versts that morning, in weather that had killed a horse the week before.²

7gens · the Vasilyev familyP. 47

Verified · 11.02.1894

The Family of

Vasilyev

Seven generations
1822 — 2026

Volume I · Archive №001

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

Hardcover

Paper

120 gsm · acid-free

Cover

Printed & bound to order

Pages

~ 240, illustrated

Trim size

170 × 240 mm

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For families

Three reasons people start.
One reason they finish.

A faded Cyrillic-addressed envelope resting beside an old map of the Eastern European border region, magnifying glass on the map

For diaspora families

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

7gens reads and translates records across fourteen languages and scripts, including Russian, Polish, Yiddish, Ladino, Armenian and Greek. The book comes back in yours.

An older person's weathered hands holding a new terracotta hardcover book tied with a thin grosgrain ribbon

As a 75th-birthday gift

The first time their own story has been written.

You bring the conversations. We bring the archives. Months from now, you hand them a book with their grandmother in it.

A home bookshelf with a tall terracotta-cloth hardcover spine reading "Vasilyev — Volume I" standing among ordinary novels

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.

Most of these came up
in the first conversation.

How is this different from a genealogy database?

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.

Will the AI make things up?

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.

Can I edit what the AI writes?

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.

What languages do you work in?

Fourteen, including Russian, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Armenian, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, English and Ukrainian. The final book is delivered in the language you choose.

What happens to my family data?

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.

How long does it actually take?

A first chapter, in ten days. A draft of the full book, in eight weeks. A bound, foil-stamped hardcover, in fourteen. You set the pace — the workshop pauses when you do.

Your family'sstory, finallywritten down.

Seven specialised agents.
One book.

Searching marriage records in Yaroslavl (1888–1895).

Five steps.
Not five years.

This is what the book reads like.
Patient. Specific. Sourced.

The year Eleonora arrived by sleigh, the river was already three weeks frozen.

An object built to outlast you.

Three reasons people start.
One reason they finish.

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

The first time their own story has been written.

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

Plain rates.
No hidden chapters.

Most of these came up
in the first conversation.

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

Seven specialised agents.One book.

Searching marriage records in Yaroslavl (1888–1895).

Five steps.Not five years.

This is what the book reads like.Patient. Specific. Sourced.

The year Eleonora arrived by sleigh, the river was already three weeks frozen.

An object built to outlast you.

Three reasons people start.One reason they finish.

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

The first time their own story has been written.

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

Plain rates.No hidden chapters.

Most of these came upin the first conversation.

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

Seven specialised agents.
One book.

Five steps.
Not five years.

This is what the book reads like.
Patient. Specific. Sourced.

Three reasons people start.
One reason they finish.

Plain rates.
No hidden chapters.

Most of these came up
in the first conversation.

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