Question 1

Who is William Price?

Accepted Answer

William Price is a synthetic persona created to demonstrate how ThroughTheirEyes works. He is based on a carefully constructed GEDCOM file representing a Welsh coal miner from the mid-1800s.

Question 2

Is this conversation real or AI-generated?

Accepted Answer

This is an AI-generated historical simulation. William's responses come from a large language model that has been tightly guided to stay faithful to the GEDCOM data, never introduce facts missing from the genealogical record, and respect historical cutoff dates.

Question 3

What are the [P1], [P2] markers?

Accepted Answer

These are provenance markers—our way of showing where each piece of information is coming from. Hover over a marker to see the GEDCOM note or record that supports the claim and a confidence estimate.

Question 4

What is a GEDCOM file?

Accepted Answer

GEDCOM (Genealogical Data Communication) is the universal file format for family trees. Every major platform can export your tree as a GEDCOM. It contains names, relationships, dates, places, notes, occupations, and other structured information we use to build an accurate persona. For privacy, living individuals are automatically removed from your GEDCOM before processing.

Question 5

How do you prevent the AI from making things up?

Accepted Answer

We use strict guardrails including persona blueprints with only verified data, hard cutoff enforcement so ancestors cannot acknowledge events outside their lifetime, provenance tracking for every factual statement, and conservative inference that never invents personal events.

Question 6

What happens to my uploaded GEDCOM?

Accepted Answer

Your data is yours. We encrypt your GEDCOM file at rest, never share it with third parties, never use it to train AI models, and allow you to delete it anytime.

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