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Use your 6 free credits to search our curated databases and establish your 1870 baseline.

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The DNA Decoder

Skip the dead-ends. Our AI reverse-engineers your migration path and hands you the exact federal archive to open.

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What Makes Us Different

Three tools built for the wall every other site hits.

The 1870 Brick Wall Engine

The 1870 Census was the first to name formerly enslaved people. Our engine cross-references Freedmen's Bureau records, slaveholder schedules, and post-war land deeds to break through where every other tool stops.

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DNA-to-Records Pipeline

Paste your DNA match list. Our Leeds Method clustering identifies your hub county, migration vector, and the exact NARA microfilm to pull — turning raw percentages into a step-by-step archival strategy.

AI Family Guide

Your oldest relatives hold names no census ever recorded. The Guide writes the message to send them, reads what they send back, and turns their stories into your next search — automatically.

DNA Decoder

Generic AI gives you
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Paste your DNA match list. The engine runs Leeds Method clustering, identifies your hub county, and hands you the exact National Archives microfilm to pull — in under 90 seconds.

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Heritage Card

Edgefield County, SC

Hub County

Ancestry Breakdown

Nigerian
45%
Cameroonian
28%
British & Irish
18%
Urgent

Open NARA Microfilm M869

Search Edgefield County 1870 Census. Look for Butler surname households with formerly enslaved members on the same page.

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Freedmen's Bureau — SC Labor Contracts

NARA M821, 1865–1868. Filter by Edgefield District. Labor contracts name both parties — your ancestor may appear by name for the first time.

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