The Genealogist’s AI Playbook: 500+ Tested Prompts to Break Brick Walls, Decode DNA, and Research Any Ancestry Worldwide

This book is for educational purposes only. All AI-assisted research outputs should be verified against original sources before use in genealogical conclusions.Millions of genealogists have DNA results they cannot interpret, brick walls that have not moved in years, foreign records they cannot read, and a research file full of evidence they have never turned into a story. The problem is never the research. It is knowing exactly what to ask AI — and how to ask it.The Genealogist's AI Playbook solves that problem completely. This is not a list of generic prompts. It is a complete research system built on the TRACE framework — a five-component prompt architecture engineered specifically for genealogy — that works across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and every major AI platform. Inside you will find 500+ tested prompts covering platform-specific workflows for Ancestry, FamilySearch, and MyHeritage, DNA and genetic genealogy, handwriting transcription and translation, brick wall strategies, African American research, Irish, German, Eastern European, and Asian ancestry, newspaper and obituary extraction, AI error detection, and the full pipeline from raw research notes to a published family history.Every prompt is ready to copy, adapt, and use today. Every chapter includes a verification system to ensure your research remains accurate and citable. And unlike anything else available, The Genealogist's AI Playbook takes you all the way to the finished story — the one your family has been waiting for.Duncan Sanders is a professional genealogist who has spent years testing every major AI tool against real, difficult research problems — brick walls, damaged records, complex DNA cases, and multilingual archives. This playbook is not a theory. It is the system that works in practice.AI tools are changing genealogy research right now. Researchers using them correctly are breaking walls that stood for decades, reading documents they never could before, and finishing family histories they thought would never be done. Every month you wait is another month of research sessions that could have gone further, faster.Grab your copy today and start using AI the right way — from the very first prompt. Read more