How Famli works
From a box of old papers to a living, searchable family archive. Here's how.
Add your family materials
Three ways to build your archive. Upload documents like letters, photos, and certificates. Write quick notes about family memories, recipes, or facts. Record audio stories in your own voice — Famli transcribes them automatically.
- Upload PDFs, images, and text files (letters, certificates, clippings, recipes)
- Write notes to capture memories, family lore, and facts you know
- Record audio stories — Famli transcribes them with AI
- Tag items with narrators, dates, and certainty levels
AI processes everything
Famli's AI reads each document, transcribes audio stories, and processes your notes — extracting people, places, events, and dates. It connects information across all your materials and builds a structured knowledge base automatically.
- Optical character recognition for handwritten and printed text
- Audio transcription for recorded stories
- Entity extraction: people, places, dates, events, relationships
- Confidence scoring and provenance tracking for every discovery
Search and ask questions
Search across your entire archive with keywords, or ask questions in natural language. Famli retrieves relevant passages from documents, notes, and stories — generating answers with citations you can click through to verify.
- Full-text keyword search across all documents, notes, and stories
- Natural language Q&A powered by AI
- Every answer cites specific sources with passage excerpts
- Follow-up questions for deeper exploration
Explore and curate your family story
Navigate a visual family tree that grows as you add materials. Explore how people are connected, trace paths between relatives, and view person timelines. Review AI-suggested identity matches and edit person details to build an accurate knowledge base.
- Interactive family tree with tree and network views
- Person profiles with relationships, events, and source evidence
- Connection path-finding and person timelines
- Identity review queue — confirm, separate, or merge AI-discovered people
Ready to get started?
Create your archive and start adding documents, notes, and stories in minutes. Free to start.