An honesty-first pipeline for AI-transcribing a small letter archive

A family archive of over 100 letters, half in English cursive and half in Yiddish, was found in Vancouver and transcribed and translated using AI, revealing the correspondence of Sam and Dora Diamondstein from 1900 to 1926. The project, created by one of the site's creators, uses AI to reconstruct their family story from the letters, family trees, and memory, aiming to do genealogical research honestly.

A Family Archive, 1900–1926 A box of over 100 letters was found in storage in Vancouver. Half in English cursive. Half in Yiddish — that no one left in the family could read. They turned out to be Sam and Dora Diamondstein’s — great-grandparents of one of this site’s creators, writing to each other in the early 1900s. AI translated and transcribed every one, then helped rebuild the story from family trees, research, and memory. This web site is what resulted — a real experiment in using AI to do genealogical research honestly . This site is built from letters Sam and Dora Diamondstein exchanged between 1900 and 1926 — a window into one period of their lives, not the whole of it, reconstructed as honestly as the letters, the family tree, and living memory allow. Choose how you'd like to explore.