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A service that takes your family ancestry data and makes it into written biographies of your family members with natural language generation.

Why?

There is a gap in the market for what to do with your family history research when it’s complete path to acquisition (Ancestry)

Who?

• Ancestry has 3 billion users at quite a high price point (up to $199/year) — people already feel that family is priceless.
• DNA services are becoming more popular
• It’s becoming more popular among younger people (no longer as niche)

Possible services / products

• generated individual and family biographies
• generated infographics
• generated family history website (trees, data, individual and family biographies)
• create a book from the biographies and allow multiple family member purchases

Unique benefits

Could possibly be easily translated into different languages

Method

1. user imports data (GEDCOM file)
2. parse the file and output to json
3. convert json into readable text

Stages

• Document Planning (content planning, outline)
• Microplanning (referring expressions, word choice, aggregation)
• Realisation (converting specifications to a real text)
• Natural Language Generation (NLG)
  • Scripts or Rules-Producing Text
  • Dynamic Sentence Creation