MyCousins.org is a family history archive organized to reflect how families form, how records survive, and how stories are preserved over time. Its structure favors clarity, evidence, and transparency over completeness or speculation.
Rather than presenting a single, simplified family tree, the archive is built around nuclear families, documented relationships, and original sources. Stories, records, and historical context are preserved together so that meaning is never separated from evidence.
The pages below explain the principles that guide how content is organized, how evidence is evaluated, how conflicts in records are handled, and what visitors can expect to find — and not find — as they explore.
How This Archive Works
- Where Do We Start?
- The Nuclear Family as the True Archive
- Why Nuclear Families Matter Here
- What Counts as a Source Here
- Where the Evidence Lives
- When Records Conflict
- When Records Disagree
- Document Archive Index
- Sources & Historical Context
- Will I Find My Family Tree on MyCousins.org?
- Yes, We Are Related
This page is updated intentionally as the archive grows.