A unique service for independent research of family history and drawing up a family tree, which has no analogues in the world, is launched in Russia. "Family Tree" makes genealogy accessible to those who do not have special education, experience and the opportunity to visit archives in different regions of the Russian Federation and the CIS.

The unique platform was developed by the team of International Genealogical Center (MGC) with the support of experts of non-profit foundation "Family History". Creators of the service have tremendous experience and expertise in genealogical research, family history and archives that allows to thoroughly study the requests of clients and excellently understand the market trends.

MGC is a major player in the commercial genealogy market in the RF, CIS and Eastern Europe and implements the most complex and seemingly futile projects. The Family History Foundation, on the contrary, is conceived as a social project promoting genealogy in Russia and forming a need for Russians to study their family history.

At the launch of the Family History service users will have access to 3 services - automatic requests to archives online, bot-interviewer with artificial intelligence, marketplace of genealogists and historians experts. The creators of the service assume that these tools will be most in demand among those who are seriously engaged in independent restoration of the family history, as well as among those who are looking for information about specific individuals.

With the help of the service of automatic request sending a user can remotely contact 2000 archives of the Russian Federation from any country in the world and spend 15 minutes filling out a simple form. If a researcher needs to interview relatives or friends, he can use bot-interviewer. A specially designed bot will conduct interviews over the phone or messenger, and translate the results of conversations into a structured printed document with all key dates/names/facts as well as a chart of the family tree. In case a researcher realizes that offline help is required in a city or country of search, they can place their ad on the Femiri Marketplace and negotiate with the responding experts on terms of cooperation. All experts on the Marketplace are preliminarily certified before obtaining access to the client task database.

Developers from MGC and the Family History Foundation aimed to make a unified platform for independent research of family history in remote (online) format, where effective tools, qualified experts and a convenient place to systematize and store all available information will be available. So far, they are succeeding in accomplishing what they have envisioned.

Absolute uniqueness and absence of analogues in the world allows to say that service for independent research of family history and clan "Family" has all chances to become a flagship of the international market of mass genealogical services in online format.

MGC

Website: gencentre.ru

"International Genealogical Center" (MGC) was founded in 2009. The main activities of MGC are conducting in-depth complex research family history and genealogy, the creation of genealogical books in a unique author's design and hand binding. Also among the services: design of family trees, heraldry, DNA-genealogy and more.

Now MGC is the largest player in the genealogy market in Russia, the CIS and Eastern Europe. The company's portfolio includes more than 450 completed projects. The annual turnover is about 150 million rubles. The Company employs more than 120 full-time staff and works on about 100 big projects annually. The index of "disclosure", i.e. percentage of successful searches reaches 85-87%, though in the majority of other companies it does not exceed 35%.

Femiri

Web site: drevo.famiry.ru.

Famiry is a service for independent research of family history and drawing up a family tree. Developed by a team of experts from MGC and the Family History Foundation, it was launched in the summer of 2020.

The unique service allows to make genealogy accessible to those who do not have special education, experience and the opportunity to visit archives in different regions of the Russian Federation and the CIS.

The service now offers services:

- Automatic requests to archives online. Now you can already make requests to 2000 archives of Russia by filling out a simple form and spending no more than 10-15 minutes for each of them. All answers you receive will be kept in your Personal Cabinet. In the near future, you will be able to connect the archives of other countries.

- Bot-interviewer. Specially designed bot with artificial intelligence will conduct interviews with family members on the phone or in messengers, and translate the results of conversations into a structured printed document, which will reflect all the key dates / names / facts. Documents and audio recording of all interviews will be saved in the Personal Office.

- Marketplace for experts. A single platform for interaction between customers and researchers (genealogists, historians) who do their own research around the world.

Famiry.ruFoundation

The non-profit Foundation "Family History" was established by Artem Maratkanov in order to popularize genealogy, strengthen the historical memory of the Russians as well as develop the civil competencies and skills of independent research in the field of family history and genealogy. The Foundation's projects include Genealogical Dictation, a service for restoring an ancestor's military fate.

The Foundation's experts together with the MGC have developed the Genealogical Research Standard - a universal scheme and sequence of actions, following which any person can restore the family history