An MCP server that turns Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-capable assistant into a careful genealogist. It knows where the records of your ancestors are (114 archives and databases across Russia…
genealogy-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the igormel81/genealogy-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An MCP server that turns Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-capable assistant into a careful genealogist. It knows where the records of your ancestors are…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The documented pypi package is genealogy-mcp. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-13.
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| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| plan_research | A step-by-step plan for a country and period: which records exist, guides, sources in order |
| find_sources | Sources by country/region (europe, latin_america, russian_empire…), years and record kind |
| source_details | One source: coverage, access, how to search |
| where_are_records | Which archives now hold the records of a historical province (Russian Empire, Poland, Galicia, Bukovina, East Prussia, the Baltics, the Caucasus) |
| search_links | Ready search URLs for a name and its variants |
| search_online | Live search: Internet Archive full text, Chronicling America, WikiTree, Open Archives, Open List |
| place_history | Wikidata: what a village belonged to over the years, coordinates, Wikipedia article |
| name_variants | Spelling, old orthography, gendered forms, transliterations, Daitch–Mokotoff codes, given-name equivalents (incl. Yiddish and Hebrew), patronymics |
| normalize_date | "около 1899", "9 de octubre de 1899" → ABT 1899, 9 OCT 1899 |
| convert_calendar | Julian ↔ Gregorian, Hebrew, French Republican |
| feast_date | «на Покров», «после Петрова поста», Easter, Wielkanoc… → the date in a given year |
| cyrillic_numerals | ҂аѡ҃п ↔ 1880 |
| birth_year_from_age | The birth-year range from an age in a record |
| kinship | The name of a relation in ru/en/ro, with the expected DNA share |
| dna_match | Shared cM → the relationships it fits (Shared cM Project 4.0) |
| check_match | Is a found record our person? A verdict with every fact compared (Hispanic double surnames too) |
| audit_tree | Impossible facts, duplicates and gaps in a GEDCOM or family_tree.json |
| draft_archive_request | A request letter to a registry office or archive |
| record_guide | How to read and find a kind of record |
| glossary | Old Russian record terms explained |
{
"mcpServers": {
"genealogy": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"genealogy-mcp"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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