Evidence over certainty theater
Preserve conflict and uncertainty rather than manufacturing a cleaner story than the sources support.
Built for the space between a clue and a conclusion.
Family trees are good at displaying settled answers. The difficult work happens in sources, contradictions, DNA clues, and unfinished questions. Kin Resolve is an independent open-source project for that work.
Why this project exists
The research deserves a first-class workspace.
Most genealogy software centers the tree. Kin Resolve starts from a different premise: the tree is one output of an ongoing investigation. The source trail, competing explanations, confidence, and privacy decisions deserve to remain visible too.
The project is being built in public by Eric Hare, with synthetic fixtures in the repository and a roadmap that separates working capability from aspiration.
Private research by default
Give unfinished work a protected home and make publication an explicit review decision.
Portability over lock-in
Keep source code inspectable and maintain a practical path to export the archive.
A public, honest roadmap
Label beta limitations and future work instead of selling planned capabilities as finished.
Build in public
The roadmap is part of the trust model.
Security, storage portability, tenancy, privacy controls, and evidence grounding are not invisible chores. They determine whether the product deserves real family data.
Design notes, implementation, tests, and production-readiness work live alongside the source so the gap between a claim and the current code can be examined.
Explore the repositoryShape the next chapter
Bring your research process to the private beta.
We’re looking for family historians willing to test realistic GEDCOM, source, case, publishing, and DNA-triage workflows.