Genealogy careers & jobs for freelancers

US-licensed trademark attorney needed: non-US resident applying to USPTO, can't verify with SSN or ID.me. Need real representation, not a hack. Willing to pay for proper filing.

Conceptual Design for Digitizing Family Heritage & Art

1. Vision: Create a timeless digital space that honors our Chinese roots, celebrates family legacy, and connects generations worldwide. The platform should feel like walking through a living courtyard of memories.

2. Scope: Conceptual design only (not final build)
Deliverables: prototypes, annotated markups, layouts, navigation models, presentation decks, webpages

3. Focus: cultural resonance, usability, scalability, sustainability

4. Key Requirements:
- Design Metaphor: Chinese Courtyard House (Siheyuan) for harmony and unity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siheyuan)
- Artifacts: Showcase calligraphy, paintings, photographs, crafts
- Genealogy: Integrate lineage spanning 2,000+ years, detailed from the 69th generation onward
- Notable Figures: Highlight Grandad (renowned calligrapher) and other generational contributions
- Future-Proofing: Scalable, intuitive, easy to maintain
- Technology: Use mainstream tools (cloud storage, website builders, digital galleries)
- Tone: Warm, reverent, and accessible in English

5. Audience
- Family members across four generations
- Close family friends

6. Background
- Genealogy spans 71 generations, richly documented from 2000 years ago to present
- Artifacts: calligraphy, paintings, photography, crafts (10 digital samples provided)
- Project codename: 69+3, honoring Grandad and continuing legacy (Grandad is from the 69th generation)

7. Timeline
- Target completion: 3–4 weeks (flexible)

9. Deliverables
- Clickable prototypes, annotated PDFs, presentation decks
Multiple conceptual options encouraged

I need someone to visit the Pretoria National Archives and collect a document for me. Through the NAAIRS online archival search function I have found a document, with its exact reference number / date etc. which is located in the Pretoria Archives.

It should be as straightforward as providing the clerk these details and they will be able to present the document to you. If the document is located, I would also need the clerk/archivist on duty to create a 'certified copy' of the document itself.

This is an urgent job that I would ideally need completed Tuesday 2nd of December 2025.

The archives are open 8am - 4pm

Seeking a professional to build and verify family trees on Ancestry.com using DNA results. The focus is on European regions including Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, and Spain. Experience in genetic genealogy and European records is essential.

• Describe your specific process for using DNA matches to identify an ancestor when there is no obvious paper trail. Which tools or methods do you use?
• Most Irish census records from the 19th century were destroyed. What specific record sets do you use to locate families in Ireland between 1820 and 1860?
• Beyond Ancestry.com and FamilySearch, what specific Italian government portals or repositories do you use to access civil registration documents?

Project Overview

We are building an automated pipeline to extract naturalization records, obituaries, public records, and descendant data for genealogical research.

A major challenge is that children are often not indexed on Ancestry.com, and appear only in the scanned document, sometimes handwritten or faint.

Therefore, this job requires scraping + OCR preprocessing + Vision-AI extraction, not simple scraping.

We are looking for a highly skilled backend/data engineer who can:

Automate login-protected scraping

Extract structured data from indexed fields

Pull high-quality images from OpenSeadragon canvas elements

Extract non-indexed fields (children, spouse, etc.) using OCR + Vision AI

Normalize everything into clean JSON

Handle proxies, captchas, retries, and anti-bot systems

Your Responsibilities
1. Extract & Match Naturalization Records

Authenticate into Ancestry.com using persistent sessions.

Submit form searches (first/middle, last, birth year).

Score & select best matches.

Extract:

Name

Birth data

Parents (if listed)

Spouse

Children (indexed or NOT indexed)

Record metadata

2. Extract Children Directly From Scanned Documents

This is the critical skill.

Ancestry images are rendered via OpenSeadragon canvas, not img tags.

You must reliably capture document images by:

Extracting tile source URLs, OR

Parsing hidden HTML image URLs, OR

Capturing high-resolution canvas screenshots

Then:

Apply OCR preprocessing (contrast, grayscale, upscaling, unsharp masking)

Use OCR for clear printed text

Use Vision-AI (GPT-4 Vision or similar) for handwritten or low-quality text

Extract children’s names and dates from PDFs with high accuracy

3. Follow Obituary Links

Scrape obituaries and extract:

spouse

children

siblings

parents

residence history

publication date

structured JSON output

4. Public Records Extraction / Whitepages Enrichment

Match individuals in U.S. public records datasets:


The public records output must be normalized, deduplicated, and merged into the final JSON profile.

Required Skills
Scraping

Playwright OR Selenium

Login automation

Persistent session handling

Proxy rotation (residential preferred)

Captcha solving (2Captcha / AntiCaptcha)

Anti-bot evasion strategies

Document Extraction

Experience extracting non-indexed data from scanned documents

OCR preprocessing:

grayscale

contrast enhancement

sharpening / unsharp mask

upscaling

Ability to read handwritten entries

Experience with degraded historical documents

Vision AI

GPT-4-Vision, LLaVA, or equivalent

Ability to prompt the model to output structured fields

Confidence scoring and OCR fallback logic

Data Engineering

Python (required)

Clean, modular code (Scrapy/Playwright/Requests modules)

JSON normalization and schema design

Good logging/debugging practices

• Describe a project where you extracted fields from scanned or handwritten documents that were not indexed. What techniques and models did you use?
• How would you extract a child’s name that appears handwritten inside an OpenSeadragon-rendered naturalization document? Describe your exact pipeline.
• Do you have experience combining OCR + Vision-AI? If yes, what models and what preprocessing steps did you apply?
• Show an example of complex relational JSON you previously generated.
• What proxy provider do you recommend for login-protected scraping?

I need a genealogist to find family heirs to properties in estates. this will include building out a family tree and collecting other related information.

Research heirs for probate in Arizona USA. Much information already discovered. Need specific information and family tree developed to present to judge

Seeking a skilled researcher to assist with UK genealogy tasks. The ideal candidate will have experience in tracing family histories and accessing various UK records, including military records.

Genealogy researcher needed to locate Bulgarian birth certificate (1902)

I’m looking for a genealogy researcher or local expert with access to Bulgarian civil or church records to help me find the birth certificate of my great-grandfather, who was born in Bulgaria around February 8, 1902 and later emigrated to Argentina.

The document must be official and verifiable.

Any experience with Bulgarian archives, Cyrillic records, or working with citizenship-related documentation is a plus.

If you believe you can help or guide the search, please reach out.

• Describe your recent experience with similar projects