Hidden Pieces™
From Records to Roots
A step-by-step genealogy workflow
for organizing evidence, solving brick walls,
and preserving family stories.
Hidden Pieces™
From Records To Roots
A structured genealogy system for organizing evidence, analyzing clues, reconstructing ancestors, and preserving family stories.
Genealogy does not end with finding records. Hidden Pieces helps you organize the evidence, understand what it means, reconstruct the person behind it, and preserve the story for whoever comes next.
Overview
The System
There is plenty of information about how to find genealogy records. Hidden Pieces™ focuses on what comes next- helping you turn scattered evidence into clearer conclusions, a fuller picture of your ancestor, and a story worth preserving.
Discovery
Search
Ask the right question before opening tab #38. Track what you find - and what stubbornly refuses to exist.
Interpretation
Solve
Line up the evidence, confront conflicts, and make the records explain themselves.
Portrait
Build
The records give you the outline. Context adds the color. The family tea adds the shading.
Legacy
Preserve
Clean up citations, save the receipts, and leave the next generation fewer mysteries.
The Research Cycle
A Repeatable workflow for turning records into evidence, evidence into understanding, and understanding into story.
SearchSolveBuildPreserverepeat
Try the Hidden Pieces™ Sampler
Try the complete Hidden Pieces workflow free: find the clues, make sense of the mess, spill the ancestral tea, and save the receipts.
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Your family history research, finally organized.
Hidden Pieces™: The Search Phase is a guided genealogy research workbook designed to keep your questions, sources, findings, and next steps organized in one place.
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