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Discover Your Ancestor's Story
Tell us who you'd like to learn about, and choose the stories you want us to create. Each product is a professionally researched narrative delivered as a PDF.
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Who would you like to learn about?
Family Tree File (Optional) ℹ
Have a family tree file? Upload a GEDCOM (.ged) file exported from Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage, or any genealogy software. We'll automatically extract records that enrich your stories:
• Immigration & passenger manifests• Military service records• Naturalization dates & courts• Residence sequence over time• Occupation changes• Birth, marriage & death details• Family relationships• Physical descriptions from records
How to export your GEDCOM: In Ancestry, go to your tree → Tree Settings → Export Tree. In FamilySearch, go to your tree → Tools → Export GEDCOM. In most other genealogy programs, look under File → Export. The file will end in .ged.
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Drop your .ged file here, or click to browse
Accepted formats: .ged, .gedcom (max 10 MB)
Your file is used to generate your story and then permanently deleted. It is never stored, shared, or sold.
Limited date data detected. Your family tree file has fewer than 5 dated records. Many Thread sections use date ranges to build historical context — your document may be shorter than typical. You can continue with this file or upload one with more complete records.
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Portrait — The Full Life
The Portrait Coming Soon
One ancestor. The full story.
A complete narrative of your ancestor's life — the world they were born into, how they lived, what shaped them, and what they left behind. Covers all 13 dimensions of daily life.
Their service, their sacrifice, their war. From enlistment to homecoming — what military service meant for their body, their family, and their identity.
Introductory price — rises to $79
$59
The Immigration Chapter Coming Soon
One ancestor. One defining experience.
The world they left, the crossing they endured, and the moment they stepped onto unfamiliar ground. What it felt like to arrive — the fear, the hope, the first test.
Before 1870, most enslaved ancestors do not appear by name in any record. This chapter tells their story through what the system left behind — the first record, the first named identity, the place and the labor, and what they built after freedom came.
Who they each were before. How they found each other. What stood between them. Eight chapters tracing the arc from courtship to household to legacy — including the laws and customs that shaped their union and the years they endured together.
Wars, famines, plagues, economic collapses, personal losses — most lives contain more than one disaster. This chapter tells the full story of everything your ancestor endured across their lifetime, what it cost them, and what survived them.
One bloodline. One analytical dimension. Across generations.
A deep-dive into a single lens — Food & Kitchen, Language, Shelter, Religion, Education, Health, Music & Arts, Migration, Civic Life, Work, Death & Burial, Clothing & Dress, or Wealth. You choose the dimension; we trace it across your family line.
Food & Kitchen · Health & Medicine · Death & Burial
What the body endured, what sustained it, and how the family marked the end of a life. The biology of survival, traced across generations.
$189
Faith & Expression Coming Soon
Clothing & Dress · Religion & Spiritual Life · Music, Arts & Leisure
Who they were beyond their circumstances — what they believed, what they sang, what they wore when it mattered. Identity across the generations.
$189
The Crossing Coming Soon
Shelter & Housing · Language · Migration & Movement · Civic & Political Life
The complete arc of a family's journey — why they left, how they arrived, where they settled, what they fought to belong to. Four dimensions, one story.
$189
The Rise Coming Soon
Education · Work & Craft · Wealth & Financial Health
The arc of social mobility — how this family climbed through class, built skills, and accumulated or lost wealth across generations. Includes wealth tier chart.
$189
The Complete Record
The Complete Thread Coming Soon
All 13 dimensions. One bloodline. The full generational story.
Every dimension of your family line — food, health, migration, faith, language, shelter, death, work, civic life, education, arts, wealth, and more — woven into one comprehensive report. The deepest product in the Origentum catalog. Includes family archetype synthesis.
$699
The Chronicle Coming Soon
Choose your own 4–6 dimensions.
Build a custom multi-dimension story from the 13 available threads. More depth than a Mini-Bundle, more focus than the Complete Thread. You choose what matters most.
$249
The Ancestral Journey — Visit the Homeland
The Ancestral Journey Coming Soon
A heritage travel kit built around your ancestor's birthplace.
Three pieces delivered together: a wallet-size Pocket Card for in-country reference, a 17-page Field Guide with an interactive heritage map, parish addresses, archive hours, and local context, and a 9-page hybrid Workbook to journal what you find. Built from your ancestor's town, parish, and country.
The Military Chapter is shipping now for Memorial Day. The Portrait, other Chapters, The Ancestral Journey, and The Thread are launching soon — join a waitlist on each product page.
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The more you share, the richer the story
Your family tree file is uploaded. We'll pull birth, death, occupation, religion, spouse, and children directly from your tree — no need to retype them. We just need a few things below that family trees can't store.
For The Ancestral Journey: we'll pull your ancestor's birthplace from the GEDCOM. If the place tag is just a country or province, please add the village/parish in the Birthplace fields below — your entire kit is built from this location, and a precise village name produces a far richer Field Guide.
Ancestor Details
For The Ancestral Journey: please be as specific as possible with the birthplace below — village, parish, or town name (not just country). Your entire kit is built from this location. If you only know the country or region, that's fine — we'll do our best, but a precise village name produces a far richer Field Guide.
500-character limit. Optional — but particularly useful if your family tree shows complexity (multiple marriages, half-siblings, etc.) and you want to guide our tone.
Things Your Family Tree Can't Tell Us
The fields below have no standard tag in family-tree files, so we ask everyone — even if you uploaded a GEDCOM.
If yes and you'd like a dedicated military story, select The Military Chapter above
Military Service Details
Scope note: The Military Chapter currently focuses on US military service. The historical archives, casualty figures, and post-service procedures referenced throughout the chapter (NARA, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Purple Heart, the 1973 NPRC fire, etc.) are all US institutions. For ancestors who served in non-US forces (British, Canadian, Soviet, German, etc.), please email Info@Origentum.com before ordering — we can discuss whether the chapter will serve your needs or whether to wait for our international expansion.
Please write the full rank name rather than an abbreviation — e.g. "Sergeant" not "Sgt", "Private First Class" not "PFC", "Electrician's Mate Third Class" not "EM3". The cover page and Service Summary card show this value verbatim, so the full form reads better.
Select the one conflict that most defined their service. A single Military Chapter covers one conflict in depth — for ancestors who served in multiple wars (career military), order one chapter per conflict. Each is a complete narrative.
If you don't know the theater, that's fine — pick "I don't know" and meet the order requirements with branch, rank, unit, and service years instead.
A service number lets us write much more specific record-search guidance for your family. Without it, archive requests take longer and may return ambiguous results for common names. Format varies by branch and era — Army WWII numbers are 8 digits, Navy WWII are 6–7 digits, Air Force officers carry an "FR" prefix, Marines use 6–7 digits, Vietnam-era SSN-formatted numbers replaced these starting in 1969–1972 depending on branch.
Helpful to include if known: medals or decorations, injuries or wounds, POW status, specific battles, ship or aircraft names, letters or photos, family stories passed down. Up to 2000 characters.0 / 2000
To order: fill at least 3 of 5 service details (branch / rank / unit / service years / theater). Military Notes are optional but make the chapter richer.
Any service-related document with your ancestor's information: a discharge paper
(DD-214 / WD AGO 53 / NAVPERS 553), an "Honorable Discharge" certificate, a casualty
roster page, a unit muster roll, an enlistment record, or a headstone application.
JPG / PNG / PDF, max 10 MB. We extract branch, rank, unit, dates, decorations, and
discharge type from whichever document type you upload, and fill the fields above for
you. Upload as many as you have — the chapter gets richer with each.
A photograph of your ancestor in uniform. We use it to identify visible insignia
(rank, branch, unit patches, ribbons) and the era of the uniform. JPG / PNG, max 10 MB.
We do not perform face recognition.
Immigration Journey Details
We'll infer the most likely port if left blank
This becomes part of their story0 / 500
The Freedom Chapter — Ancestor Details
The more you share, the more specific the chapter becomes. State is required.
Adding an enslaver name or post-war records significantly deepens the narrative — and adjusts the price.
County-specific content is significantly richer
If known — enables Slave Schedule household matching. Price adjusts to $59.
Where the ancestor appears in records after freedom. Enables backward reconstruction. Price adjusts to $59.
1870/1880 census entry, Freedmen's Bureau record, or any post-war document0 / 500
Family knowledge is irreplaceable — include whatever you know0 / 500
Price updated to $59 — You've provided an enslaver name or post-war records, which enables deeper household reconstruction and backward record linking.
Marriage Details
This product covers both partners equally. Step 1 captured Partner 1. Tell us about Partner 2 and the marriage below.
Partner 2
Adding country makes the biggest difference when partners came from different backgrounds
The Marriage
Exact year or decade (e.g. "1900s") — we'll estimate from birth years if blank
City, county, state, or country — whatever you know
Widowhood and prior marriages add narrative complexity
Children from this marriage, if known
These become part of the narrative0 / 500
The Catastrophe Chapter — Tell Us What You Know
Everything here is optional. We'll identify every catastrophe that intersected your ancestor's life from their birth year, location, and background. But anything you can share — even one sentence — makes the story richer.
Select the one you know most about — we'll find the rest
Where they were when things got hard — if different from birthplace above
Family memory is the most valuable input we can receive — it anchors the whole chapter
Named losses make the story personal in a way no database can
Thread Dimension
Each dimension is traced from your earliest ancestor to the most recent in your family tree file
Family Background — Optional
These details help us write with cultural specificity — especially valuable for the Religion, Food & Kitchen, and Language dimensions.
Helps us select culturally specific historical context
Optional — if not in GEDCOM; most useful for the Religion & Spiritual Life dimension
Optional — helps us write with cultural specificity
Intercultural & Interracial Marriages — Optional
Name the pairing if you know it — a bare "yes" without detail produces generic prose
Additional Context
Every detail helps us write a more accurate story0 / 500
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Ancestor
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Origin
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Death Location
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Occupation
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Family Tree File
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Thread
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Military Service
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Conflict
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Rank
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Theater
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Immigration Journey
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Arrival Year
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Port
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Ship
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The Marriage
Partner 2
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Marriage Year
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Location
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Partner 2 Origin
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The Freedom Chapter
State Where Enslaved
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County
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Enslaver / Plantation
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Post-War Location
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The Catastrophe Chapter
Known Event
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Ancestor Survived
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Family Memory
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Family Lost
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