Genealogy Research Partner for Muse
A GPS-methodology research partner for your family history
- What
- A GPS-methodology research partner for your family history
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- your own family-history materials to research (scans, photos, database screenshots of parish, civil, census, military, or migration records; optionally a GEDCOM file or an Obsidian vault). No accounts or API keys required — protected archives and paid databases need you, not the skill.
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Turns Muse into a disciplined genealogy research partner for your family history: it reads scans, photos, and database screenshots of parish, civil, census, military, and migration records in any language — including handwritten historical scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic, Gothic/Kurrent, Hebrew, Greek, and Ottoman Arabic — and works to the Genealogical Proof Standard, tagging every conclusion as Proven, Probable, Possible, Unresolved, or Disproven while classifying each source, information type, and piece of evidence. It keeps your project organized in an Obsidian vault (People, Places, Documents, Events, Research) with a research tracker, validates and patches GEDCOM files with citation-backed edits, and researches local-first: archives, databases, and queries in each jurisdiction's own language and historical terminology, with native-script search vocabularies per country. Ships with reference guides for GEDCOM workflows, archive and API catalogs, country-level databases, naming conventions, and common pitfalls. Discovered via skills.sh. Honest note: it's a research partner, not an archive key — anything behind a login, subscription, or CAPTCHA (record downloads, paid databases, archive visits) still needs you, and it never runs unsolicited searches without a research plan. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Not verified.
Curated by Skill Harbor — free, open-source skill (MIT) by @sliday.
Version:
Install
Prerequisites: your own family-history materials to research (scans, photos, database screenshots of parish, civil, census, military, or migration records; optionally a GEDCOM file or an Obsidian vault). No accounts or API keys required — protected archives and paid databases need you, not the skill. Install "Genealogy Research Partner for Muse" for me. Turns Muse into a disciplined genealogy research partner: reads and translates handwritten or printed historical records in any language or script, applies the Genealogical Proof Standard (Proven/Probable/Possible/Unresolved/Disproven) to every conclusion, maintains an Obsidian research vault, validates and patches GEDCOM files, and plans local-first searches per country and archive. Repository: https://github.com/sliday/genealogy-research/blob/main/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file (and any helper files: references/, scripts/gedcom_check.py) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "genealogy-research". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. have my scans or GEDCOM ready, and know which language regions I'm researching). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.