Daily AncestorAbout Daily Ancestor
A free place to learn to read the records your ancestors left behind.
Every family historian hits the same wall: you finally find the census page, the will or the gravestone, and then you cannot read it. The handwriting is strange, the words are old, the dates follow a calendar nobody uses any more.
Daily Ancestor helps with exactly that. A dictionary explains the words you meet in old records in plain English. Census guides show what each census asked and what to watch for. A new record to decode every day, quick games and simple calculators turn the rules into habits.
Everything is free and works without an account. We are a small team, and we built it because we wanted it ourselves.