Forensic Genealogy
at institutional scale.
Verified lineage documentation — to the Genealogical Proof Standard — in about ninety minutes of pipeline runtime plus human review. For tribal enrollment, citizenship by descent, probate, mineral rights, reparations programs, and beyond. Race-agnostic. Lineage-agnostic. Rigorous always.
Lineage verification is the bottleneck for billions in legal rights.
Every form of lineage-based entitlement — tribal enrollment, citizenship by descent, probate inheritance, mineral rights, reparations eligibility — is gated behind genealogical documentation most people cannot produce. The industry has no scalable answer.
The 1870 brick wall
Before emancipation, ancestors appear in slave schedules as numbers — no names, no relationships. After 1870 they emerge with new surnames and no paper trail. Standard genealogical methods stop at this wall. We break it.
The speed and cost crisis
Industry standard: four to six months per case at $108–$200 per hour. Organizations that need scale — tribal enrollment offices, reparations programs, immigration firms — have no viable throughput solution.
Documentation as the gate
Cherokee enrollment. Italian citizenship. Evanston reparations. Seminole Freedmen adjudication. In every case, genealogical documentation is the gate. Without it, no rights transfer. With it, everything opens.
A market without infrastructure
The global genealogy products and services market is estimated at $6.04 billion in 2026, growing to $15.8 billion by 2033. The verification infrastructure has not kept pace.
We ran the pipeline on our own founder's lineage.
Before we offer this to any organization, we built it for ourselves. Case ARM-2026-001 documented seven generations of the Armstead family through the 1870 wall — entirely on primary sources, to the Genealogical Proof Standard.
Benjamin Armstead
1842 probate inventory of Capt. William Armistead, Clarke County, Alabama — Benjamin identified by name, age, and skilled occupation as blacksmith.
1870 and 1880 U.S. Federal Census (Clarke County) · 1900 Census (Jefferson County) · Alabama death certificates · Clarke County deed books, post-1865.
Genealogical Proof Standard · Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained citation format · chain of custody at every generational link.
Benjamin Armstead → Alonzo → Willie James → Julius → Julius Jr. → Tommy → Israel Lee Armstead
Eight verticals. One method.
The need for forensic lineage verification is universal — it does not belong to one race, one lineage, or one cause. These are the fields where documentation is the gate, and the kinds of organizations that hold it.
| Vertical | Orgs mapped | Examples of the field | Typical fee per case | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tribal enrollment | 9 | Tribal nations' enrollment and citizenship offices | $45–$150 | A |
| Citizenship by descent | 8 | Immigration and citizenship law practices | $150–$2,000 | A |
| Heir search / probate | 7 | Heir-search firms and probate attorneys | $150–$600 | A |
| Mineral / land rights | 4 | Professional landmen and title research | $200–$800 | A |
| Adoptee / donor-conceived | 6 | Right-to-know and search-angel organizations | $100–$300 | A |
| Medical genealogy | 4 | Consumer-genomics and family-health platforms | Licensing | A |
| Academic / archival | 6 | Genealogical societies, archives, certification bodies | Channel | B |
| Reparations / lineage rights | 6 | Municipal and state reparations programs | Public contract | A |
We start with a free pilot. You keep everything.
Three tracks, matched to how your organization works. No client data is retained on our end. All work product belongs to you and your client. Privacy is not a policy — it is the standard.
Verification organizations
- Three brick-wall cases at no charge
- Full GPS-standard case file returned
- All work product owned by you and the member
- Zero data retention — ever
- Ninety-minute turnaround per case
Legal and professional firms
- Pilot batch of ten cases at half rate
- 48–72 hour turnaround per case
- BCG-aligned documentation for court use
- Volume terms for standing partners
- API integration available for enterprise
Government and municipal
- Proposal and methodology brief on request
- UEI H8NGXEYE2HH8 · CAGE 07E88 (SAM.gov renewal in progress)
- Program design consultation at no charge
- Deliverable: verification infrastructure
- A 501(c)(3) public charity as the counterparty
We are not explaining Liberty City. We are from it.
Five reasons this work is done here, and done this way.
Rooted
A 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 99-3822441, at 820 NW 64th Street in Liberty City, Miami. Lineage-led. We are not an outside vendor. We are inside the experience.
Credentialed method
GPS-standard case files. Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained citation format. BIA, DOI, and Dawes Roll research protocols. Every case built to survive court or institutional review.
Agentic-first
Among the first agentic-first staffed nonprofits. The pipeline compresses four to six months of genealogical research into about ninety minutes of runtime plus twenty minutes of human review — without leaving the Genealogical Proof Standard.
Florida and the Caribbean corridor
On-the-ground access to Florida courthouse records, Freedmen's Bureau M1869, the 1885 Florida state census, the P.K. Yonge Library, and the Florida State Archives. Caribbean-corridor lineage — geography a national firm cannot match from Salt Lake City or New York.
The same evidentiary discipline underwrites the Black Distress Index — 1,574 verified observations across 17 federal sources and a 33-year window, published CC0. We do not promise institutional rigor; we show the record.
Let us show you what the standard looks like.
Three cases. No charge. All work product stays with you. We keep no client data.
