Krio Griot is the only platform built to cross the 1870 Brick Wall — an AI research agent, a relational family database, and a digital archive system working together as a single connected workspace that replaces every paper worksheet you've ever had to fill out by hand.
Krio Griot is built around three interlocking components that work together in a single interface — replacing every paper genealogy worksheet you've ever used with an automated, interconnected system that thinks the way a serious researcher does.
Describe an ancestor and the research engine searches 100+ specialized genealogical databases simultaneously. Every search is automatically recorded in a structured research log — including databases checked, keywords used, and whether results were positive or negative. It works as a background processor: reading, extracting, formatting, and populating your database cells without manual data entry.
Upload a scanned document, photograph, or PDF. The Archive Scanner runs text recognition on the file, then identifies historical facts, extracts names, dates, and locations, and auto-fills the proper archival metadata fields. Your digitized collection becomes a searchable, linked database instead of a folder of disconnected files.
Import your GEDCOM file from Ancestry, FamilySearch, or Geni and every person, family connection, and date loads instantly into an interactive pedigree chart. Pan, zoom, search by name, expand or collapse any branch, and click any card to edit that person's full research profile. Relationships that are missing can be connected directly on the tree — no separate spreadsheet required.
The 1870 Federal Census was the first to name formerly enslaved people as free individuals. For millions of African American families, that's where standard genealogy tools stop. Krio Griot is built to go further — organizing and cross-referencing the specialized record sets that document Black lives before, during, and immediately after emancipation.
Enslaved individuals were counted but not named in census records. Standard genealogy platforms have no path forward from here.
Five specialized record sets that name your ancestors — and Krio Griot is purpose-built to search, extract, and organize all of them.
Labor contracts, marriage registers, apprenticeship records, ration rolls, and medical logs created by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Often the earliest documentary evidence of an ancestor's full name, family structure, and location.
The schedules don't use names — but Krio Griot cross-references age, sex, and physical descriptions against known slaveholders, neighboring plantations, and post-war Freedmen's Bureau records to build a bridge across the anonymity gap.
Court registries, deeds of freedom, and physical description records documenting free people of color before emancipation. These records frequently include family relationships, ages, and the name of the person who granted freedom — a critical link to slaveholder records.
The most genealogically rich Reconstruction-era record set. Each depositor entry lists immediate family members by name, military regiment, birthplace, former enslaver, and current address — a single bank record can unlock an entire family branch.
Published in Black newspapers — primarily the Christian Recorder and the Southwestern Christian Advocate — by freedpeople searching for family members separated during slavery. These ads name individuals, former slaveholders, and last known locations, making them a powerful migration and separation tracker.
Built like Airtable for genealogy — every record is editable in-cell, every table is linked to every other, and the research engine works silently in the background so you spend time on research, not data entry.
Enter an ancestor's name and known details. The research engine searches over 100 specialized databases simultaneously — Freedmen's Bureau, census archives, USCT military rolls, slave schedules, church registers, DNA databases, newspaper archives, and state repositories — then streams results back in real time with source citations and follow-up research questions.
Unlike a chatbot, it doesn't wait for prompts. It reads the search results, identifies relevant records, extracts the historical facts, and writes the data directly into your research log and ancestor profiles. Every search is permanently recorded — what was searched, what was found, and what still needs to be answered.
Upload a scanned photograph, a handwritten letter, a census page, or a multi-page PDF. The Archive Scanner runs OCR on the file and the research engine identifies every historical fact, formats it against archival standards, and auto-populates the metadata fields. No manual typing.
Organize scanned items into named collections, build digital exhibits for your family, and publish them publicly or privately. Every archive item automatically links to the ancestors it mentions and the research questions it answers — creating a fully cross-referenced family history library.
Import your GEDCOM file exported from Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, or Geni and your entire family tree — every person, every relationship, every date — loads instantly into an interactive pedigree chart. Pan and zoom across hundreds of generations, search by name to center the view on any ancestor, and expand or collapse individual branches to focus your research.
Click any card to open that person's full research profile — editing names, dates, places, notes, and linked sources without leaving the tree. For relationships that are incomplete or missing, Edit Mode lets you connect a parent directly on the canvas: search for the father or mother by name, select them, save — and the branch redraws immediately.
Each table is editable directly inside cells — filter, sort, bulk-select, and edit without opening a separate form. Every record across every table is linked.
The central directory for every person in your family tree. Each row tracks an individual's name, life status (Enslaved / Free Person of Color / Post-Emancipation), birth and death dates, family connections, DNA test matches with shared cMs, and links to parents, spouses, and children that generate a digital family tree.
Every significant moment in an ancestor's life gets its own row — a birth event, a land deed, an enlistment record, an emancipation filing, a marriage registration. Rows stack chronologically to build a clear, evidence-based life story map with source citations attached to each event.
A permanent record of every research action taken — auto-generated by the AI agent or manually entered. Tracks which databases were searched, what keywords were used, the search date, the result status (found / not found / inconclusive), and the open research questions still waiting to be answered.
Where your uploaded files live as permanent archival records. Each row stores the original scanned file, the raw transcribed text extracted from it, the standardized metadata tags generated automatically, and automatic links to every ancestor mentioned in the document — creating a fully searchable digital family library.
Every account begins as a free digital workspace. Upgrade as your research grows — unlocking AI automation, expanded databases, and unlimited archival storage.
The digital replacement for paper genealogy worksheets. Build your tree, enter records manually, and get a firsthand look at what AI can do.
Automates the physical paperwork and organizes your standard research process. Built for individual family historians researching a specific lineage.
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Deep AI analysis, unlimited bulk processing, and public exhibit publishing — for professional genealogists and large family archive collections.
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| Feature | Free $0 |
Basic $25/mo |
Upgrade $49/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Tools | |||
| Pedigree Chart & DNA Tree | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Relationship Calculator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search Databases | 5–10 Public | 50+ Core | 100+ Complete |
| Automated Research Log | Manual Entry | Fully Automated | Analytics + Variants |
| Archive Scanner | |||
| AI Metadata Scans | 3–5 Total (lifetime) | 100 / month | Unlimited |
| Bulk PDF / ZIP Upload | — | — | ✓ |
| Exhibits & Collections | |||
| Digital Exhibits | View Only | Create Private | Public & Private |
| Storage | |||
| Cloud Storage | 250–500 MB | 5 GB | 100 GB – 1 TB |