Relationship calculator
How are we related?
Pick two people the archive has published. BEFORE TILL walks only parent-child and adoptive parent-child links, states the shared ancestors, and prints the evidence status of every generation between them.
Research & Interpretation byAmberly R. Carter-Mills— Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist
Living people appear only where consent has been recorded. Enslavement, estate and household connections are held in the Historical Network and can never produce a kinship result here.
Follow two branches of one family back to the ancestors they share.
Where the branches meet
The archive's flagship calculation follows two descendant branches out of one ancestral household — one arriving at Emmett Louis Till, one at the archivist building this record.
Open Where the Branches Meet