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Ancestrax is an AI genealogy research assistant that helps you discover your ancestors and build your family history. Instead of manually searching one record database at a time, you simply describe the person you're researching — a name, an approximate birth year, a county — and Ancestrax plans and runs a full investigation for you, searching across census records, birth and death records, marriage records, cemetery and burial records, immigration and ship passenger manifests, military service records, land deeds, wills and probate files, newspaper archives, and published genealogies.
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