AncestorOS reads every person in your tree and hands you a worklist of the gaps that are actually blocking your research — no birth date, no death date, no parents recorded. Each one names the person, carries a confidence level, and gives you a one-click jump straight into their editor. Built entirely from your own data, sent to no outside database.
Open Discoveries and you get a running count of how many gaps are still waiting on you, then every one of them laid out as a card. Filter tabs let you narrow the list to Missing Info, or to just the items you have not looked at yet. Every card carries a confidence indicator — high when the field is simply empty, medium when the gap is an inference — so you can tell at a glance which entries are certain and which are a judgement call.
Three things reliably stop a line cold: you do not know when someone was born, you do not know when they died, or you do not know who their parents were. AncestorOS checks every person in your tree against exactly those three, and writes each miss up as its own card — who it concerns, what is absent, and why filling it in matters. A direct "Add Info" button opens that person in the editor, so closing a gap takes one click instead of a hunt back through your tree.
Every card shows who it concerns, what is missing, a short note on why it is worth filling in, and a confidence indicator. Add Info opens that person in the editor so you can enter what is missing on the spot. View Profile takes you to their full record first if you want the context. Dismiss clears the card from your current view after a confirmation step. Missing-birth-date cards spell the fix out in plain words: "Add their birth date in the person editor to resolve this."
The more people you enter, the more precisely AncestorOS can tell you where the holes are.
Every time you open Discoveries, AncestorOS walks through every person and every relationship you have recorded and checks three things: whether there is a birth date, whether anyone marked as deceased has a death date, and whether there is at least one parent on record. The check runs against your own data and nothing else — no external database is contacted, and nothing about your tree leaves your account.
You get a count of what is outstanding, then a card for each gap: who it concerns, what is missing, why it is worth chasing, and a confidence level. A missing birth date or an absent death date on someone marked deceased is rated high — the field is simply empty. "Parents unknown" is rated medium, because an absent parent link can mean you have not researched that line yet, or that you have genuinely reached the top of what you know.
Add Info opens that person's editor so you can enter what is missing immediately. View Profile shows their full record first if you need context. Dismiss clears a card from view after a confirmation — useful for setting something aside while you work. Record the missing date or parent and the card stops appearing, because the thing it was pointing at is no longer missing.
Three checks run across every person you have entered, each result carrying a confidence level and a direct path to the fix.
Every person in your tree without a birth date on record is flagged, rated high confidence, and paired with a note telling you exactly where to enter it.
Anyone marked as deceased but left without a death date is surfaced at high confidence — the single most common loose end in a tree that has been built up over years.
People with no parent relationship on record are flagged at medium confidence — these are the exact points where your tree stops growing upward, listed out instead of stumbled upon.
Each card's Add Info button opens that exact person in the editor. No searching back through your tree to find who the card was about — the record is already in front of you.
Each card carries a confidence indicator. High means the field is plainly empty; medium means the gap is inferred and may not be a gap at all. You prioritise accordingly.
No external databases, no third-party lookups, no AI guessing at your family. Every discovery is derived from what you entered yourself — the people, the dates, and the relationships already in your tree.
Build your tree and Discoveries keeps a running worklist of everyone still missing a birth date, a death date, or a parent — each with a one-click path to the fix.