Genealogy careers & jobs for freelancers

Background

For the past year I have conducted an extensive historical research project concerning my grandfather, János (Jani) Tóth Merai, who was deported from Sweden to Budapest on 29 September 1957.

The Swedish phase of the research is now complete.

I have analysed more than 650 pages of original archival material from the Swedish National Archives, including police records, immigration files, court records, prison records, diplomatic correspondence and government documents.

Based on these sources, I have reconstructed a verified chronological timeline covering his life in Sweden from 1945 until his departure to Hungary. I have also built a searchable research database containing all identified persons, places, events and source references.

This is not a traditional genealogy project, but a historical archival investigation based on primary sources.

Primary objective

The first and most important objective is to establish his identity in Hungary beyond any reasonable doubt.

Everything else depends on proving that the individual found in Hungarian records is the same person who departed Sweden on 29 September 1957.

Without confirming his identity first, any further genealogy would only be speculation.

Relevant sources may include:

citizenship records
passport and travel documents
residence registration
population registration
police records
state security records
any other official archival sources
Secondary objectives

Once his identity has been confirmed, I would like to determine:

where he lived after returning to Hungary;
whether he remarried;
whether he had additional children;
when and where he died.

The final objective is to identify any living relatives or descendants in Hungary.

What I need

I am looking for someone with practical experience working in Hungarian archives and with original historical records.

Initially I would appreciate:

your professional assessment of the existing research;
recommendations on which archives should be prioritised;
advice on the most effective research strategy;
and, if appropriate, continued cooperation carrying out archival research in Hungary.

If we work well together, I hope this can develop into a larger collaboration involving archive visits in Budapest.

Material available

I can provide:

Complete research report
Hungarian research profile
Verified chronological timeline
Original Swedish archival documents
Searchable research database
Database of identified persons, places and events
Copies of official records
Chronology of all known events

MySpawn is looking for funny, creative, and relatable UGC creators to test our early platform and produce short-form content for Instagram and TikTok.

MySpawn is a futuristic family, identity, and legacy platform. Users can explore what a future descendant might look like, preserve photos and memories, and record messages for their future children or descendants.

For this paid test, you will explore the platform and create one natural 30 to 60-second vertical video showing your honest reaction.

Possible video angles include:

• “I just created what my future descendant could look like”

• “POV: Your great-grandchild watches this video in 100 years”

• “What would you tell your future children if they could watch you today?”

• “This startup lets you leave your story for people who don’t exist yet”

• A funny or emotional reaction to using the Create a Descendant feature

We do not want a stiff corporate advertisement. The video should feel natural, personal, funny, emotional, surprising, or genuinely shareable.

DELIVERABLES

• Test the MySpawn platform

• Create one vertical video between 30 and 60 seconds

• Show or discuss the Create a Descendant or Vault feature

• Include a strong opening hook and clear call to action

• Add captions or provide a clean version suitable for editing

• Deliver the original video without a watermark

• Grant MySpawn permission to repost and edit the video for its social-media channels

This must reflect your genuine experience. We are not asking for a scripted fake review.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Comfortable and engaging on camera

• Understands TikTok and Instagram Reels

• Can make content feel conversational instead of overly scripted

• Interested in family, identity, relationships, fertility, technology, genealogy, legacy, or the future

• Existing followers are helpful but not required

COMPENSATION

The initial test pays $100 for one approved video.

Creators who perform well may receive recurring paid work, performance bonuses based on verified signups, or an ongoing MySpawn ambassador opportunity.

TO APPLY

Please include:

1. Links to three short-form videos showing your personality
2. Your Instagram and TikTok audience sizes, if applicable
3. One idea for making MySpawn funny, relatable, emotional, or viral
4. Whether you would be comfortable posting the video on your own account for an additional fee
5. Your additional rate for 30 days of paid advertising usage, if applicable

Start your proposal with the words “Future Me” so we know you read the complete post.

Please keep all pre-contract communication on Upwork.

We are building an evaluation benchmark for frontier AI browsing agents. Your job is to design research problems that a state-of-the-art AI cannot solve, even with full web access and multiple attempts. This is not a subject matter expert role, nor is it a content-writing role. It is investigative research.
You will start from a verifiable fact, work backwards to construct a question that makes that fact extremely hard to locate, and then prove your work with a complete, auditable evidence trail.


What You Will Produce
A natural-language research question with a short, stable, objectively verifiable answer
Clues, each independently checkable, spanning multiple fact types - including dates, people, places, organisations, works, events, records, and quantities - with specific constraints
A validation record showing the obvious searches you ran and the results they returned
Minimum Qualifications
Master's OR 3 YOE.
Demonstrated open-web research ability, including locating primary records and navigating government and institutional databases, archives, registries, and PDF documents
Precision with sourcing. You cite exact pages, tables, and sections—not just homepages
Comfort researching unfamiliar subjects from scratch
Native or near-native written English
High tolerance for structured documentation. The evidence trail is the majority of the work
Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction
Experience in one or more of the following domains:
Reference librarianship, archival research, or special collections
Investigative journalism or professional fact-checking
OSINT, due diligence, KYC, or investigative research
Patent, prior-art, or legal-discovery search
Genealogy and records research
Competitive quizzing or puzzle-hunt construction
Nice to Have
Experience with LLM evaluation, red-teaming, or benchmark construction
Familiarity with JSON and structured data delivery formats
Application Process
Complete the assessment shared with you.
Our team will evaluate your submission.
Selected candidates will be contacted regarding the next steps

Seeking an experienced researcher to assist with Polish genealogy research for a potential citizenship by descent case.

A substantial amount of preliminary family research and U.S. documentation has already been completed. The main need is to locate and verify historical records in Poland, identify the correct archives and government offices, and obtain documentation that may support a citizenship application.

The work may include:

* Polish birth, marriage, residence, population, military, passport, emigration, and citizenship related records
* Polish State Archives and civil registry research
* Jewish genealogy and historical records
* Identifying records that are not available online
* Contacting Polish archives or government offices by email or telephone
* Obtaining scans, archival references, or certified copies where appropriate
* Maintaining a clear research log with citations and documenting unsuccessful searches
* Providing brief English summaries of important findings

Ideal candidates will have experience with Polish genealogy, Polish archival research, and preferably citizenship by descent cases.

Fluent Polish is strongly preferred, and being located in Poland would be an advantage because some research may require direct communication with local archives or offices.

This is not a project to build a family tree from scratch. Existing research, known dates and locations, immigration records, naturalization records, and other supporting documentation will be provided to the selected researcher.

The initial assignment will focus on one Polish ancestral line. A second Polish family line may be researched later depending on the results.

Accuracy, source documentation, and the ability to distinguish verified evidence from speculation are very important.

I'm looking for somebody local to the FamilySearch Center Library in Salt Lake City, or affiliate library, who is familiar with genealogical research projects, to support going through microfilm for a particular time period and attempting to identify additional information about an ancestor.

Hello folks!

I'll keep this short. I'm writing a book. Why? Who knows. But it relies a great deal on Charleston history in its own special little way.

So, I'm looking for a specialist in the history of the area, knowledgeable especially in the aesthetics of the city (architecture, art, furniture, etc.), religious histories (Huguenots in particular), and the rise and falls of industries (indigo, canneries, shrimp trawling, phosphate, etc.) to help out.

Could it be you? Most know more than I do so it very well could be.

ABC Properties is looking for a senior AI Integration Architect, AI Systems Engineer, or Full-Stack AI Engineer to connect our existing systems and deliver a working internal AI management product within one week.

We already have:

* A custom CRM called **R CRM**
* The ability to provide an API or MCP connector
* **Z.AI** for reasoning and deal analysis

[https://docs.z.ai/devpack/mcp/reader-mcp-server](https://docs.z.ai/devpack/mcp/reader-mcp-server)

* **Open Executive** for multi-agent coordination, task management, escalation, approvals, and reporting

[https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive](https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive)

* **Delphi.ai** or an equivalent knowledge layer for the ABC Properties company brain

[https://www.delphi.ai/](https://www.delphi.ai/)

This is not a request to build an AI platform from scratch. The objective is to connect these existing components and make them function together as one focused deal-management system.

Main objective

**Create a working ABC Properties Brain that identifies the major deals, analyzes what needs to happen next, assigns tasks to the best-suited team members, tracks accountability, escalates delays, and gives management clear daily insight.**

The system must focus on the most important deals and prevent them from being lost in the general lead pipeline.

Required expertise

The applicant must have strong hands-on experience with:

AI and agent systems

* LLM APIs
* Z.AI/GLM or comparable models
* Multi-agent systems
* Agent orchestration
* Prompt and context design
* Knowledge bases
* Retrieval-augmented generation
* Structured outputs
* Agent memory
* AI evaluation and testing

Open Executive

The applicant should understand how to:

* Configure specialized agents
* Define agent responsibilities
* Set schedules
* Create task flows
* Add approval steps
* Create escalation rules
* Log actions
* Coordinate multiple agents

MCP and API integration

* Model Context Protocol
* REST APIs
* Webhooks
* OAuth
* API authentication
* Data mapping
* CRM connectors
* Database access
* Tool permissions
* Error handling

CRM and business workflow

* Lead and deal pipelines
* Sales stages
* Ownership
* Task management
* Activity history
* Follow-up
* Forecasting
* Escalation
* Reporting
* Role-based access

You must be able to connect to R CRM without rebuilding the CRM.

Software development

* Python or TypeScript
* Backend services
* Databases
* API development
* GitHub
* Docker
* Cloud or private-server deployment
* Logging
* Testing
* Documentation

Security

* Credential vaults
* Least-privilege access
* API keys
* OAuth
* Role-based permissions
* Audit logs
* Read-only testing
* Approval-controlled actions
* Data privacy
* Separation between model access and credentials

Required functionality

The completed system should be able to:

1. Connect securely to R CRM.
2. Connect to Z.AI.
3. Configure Open Executive.
4. Connect or configure Delphi.ai for the ABC Properties Brain.
5. Read leads and active deals.
6. Analyze deal quality, urgency, value, and risk.
7. Identify and rank the main deals.
8. Classify opportunities as:
* Direct deal
* Referral
* Joint venture
* Research
* Nurture
* High-risk
* Genealogy-related
* Not a fit


9. Retrieve similar historical deals.
10. Recommend the next action.
11. Break that action into tasks.
12. Assign tasks to the best-suited team members.
13. Assign one Deal Captain to every main deal.
14. Track ownership and deadlines.
15. Identify missing information and blockers.
16. Detect overdue or inactive follow-up.
17. Review available phone and CRM activity.
18. Identify calls or follow-ups without clear next steps.
19. Recommend reassignment or escalation.
20. Produce daily management briefings for Roua, Ben, and Joe.
21. Create an approval queue for important decisions.
22. Show the CRM or knowledge source supporting each recommendation.

Team profiles

The system should include role and strength profiles for:

* Roua
* Ben
* Safa
* Amira
* John
* Paria
* Ali
* Michael
* Wafa
* Giovani

The system should understand that:

* Roua oversees the Tunisia office.
* Ben oversees the New Jersey office.
* Safa handles applicants, agents, property visits, and transportation.
* Amira handles lead research, genealogy, inheritance-related research, and public records.
* John handles sales, deal sourcing, deal review, and financial analysis.
* Paria, Ali, Michael, Wafa, and Giovani handle sales, lead ownership, follow-up, and deal progression.

The system should recommend the right person for each task based on strengths, workload, and experience.

Example expected output

**Main Deal: 123 Main Street**

Priority: Critical

Deal Captain: Paria

Current blocker: genealogy and ownership information incomplete

Recommended next step: research inheritance chain

Best-suited person: Amira

Dependent task: John reviews the economics after Amira’s report

Required approval: management approval before offer

Deadline: tomorrow at noon

Expected measurable outcome within one week

Within one week, we expect a working product that can:

* Read R CRM data.
* Identify the top main deals.
* Explain the prioritization.
* Analyze deal quality and risk.
* Retrieve a similar historical deal.
* Recommend the next action.
* Assign the next task to the best-suited team member.
* Assign a Deal Captain.
* Identify a blocker or overdue follow-up.
* Recommend reassignment or escalation.
* Produce a daily briefing for Roua, Ben, and Joe.
* Show the supporting CRM or knowledge source.
* Demonstrate the complete workflow using real, test, or redacted ABC Properties data.

Preferred team structure

We prefer a small, experienced team if the work can be completed more effectively through collaboration.

Please answer clearly:

1. Do you have a team of people you regularly work with?
2. Who would work on this project?
3. What would each person be responsible for?
4. Who would be the senior technical lead?
5. Who would handle the R CRM integration?
6. Who would handle Z.AI and Open Executive?
7. Who would handle the knowledge brain and deal-analysis logic?
8. Who would handle testing, security, and documentation?
9. Who would perform the final handoff to ABC Properties?

One person must remain the accountable technical lead, even if multiple people work on the project.

Similar experience

Please explain:

* Have you built a similar AI-agent or workflow system before?
* Have you connected an LLM to a CRM?
* Have you worked with APIs or MCP?
* Have you built multi-agent workflows?
* Have you created knowledge bases or company-brain systems?
* Have you built task assignment, escalation, or approval workflows?
* Have you integrated phone activity, email, or business data?
* Have you delivered a system that the client fully owned after handoff?

Please provide:

* Relevant project links
* GitHub repositories
* Live demonstrations
* Screenshots or videos
* Client references, if available
* A proposed architecture
* A one-week implementation plan
* Fixed-price estimate
* Security approach
* Maintenance and support options

Security and access

The system should begin in a test or read-only environment.

The developer must provide:

* Secure API/MCP setup
* No passwords inside prompts
* Role-based permissions
* Approval controls
* Activity logging
* Documentation of all connections
* Full handoff and administrative access to ABC Properties

The AI should recommend and coordinate. It should not automatically make binding offers, spend money, hire people, sign agreements, or send sensitive external communications without approval.

Handoff requirement

ABC Properties must own the completed system and receive:

* Source code
* Configuration files
* Documentation
* API/MCP setup instructions
* Admin access
* Knowledge-base structure
* Agent definitions
* Prompt and rule documentation
* Testing results
* Maintenance instructions
* A recorded or live handoff demonstration

Roua must be able to use the management briefing and deal-command functions without depending on the developer for everyday operation.

Acceptance test

The project will be considered complete when the system can take sample R CRM records and:

* Identify the most important deals.
* Explain why they are prioritized.
* Analyze quality, value, risk, and urgency.
* Find a similar historical deal.
* Recommend the next action.
* Break the action into tasks.
* Assign the appropriate team members.
* Include Amira when research or genealogy is required.
* Assign a Deal Captain.
* Identify a blocker.
* Detect an overdue follow-up.
* Analyze available phone activity.
* Recommend reassignment or escalation.
* Produce a briefing for Roua, Ben, and Joe.
* Show the underlying CRM or knowledge source for its conclusions.

Please begin your proposal with:

**“Main deals first.”**

Looking for a video editor for a growing YouTube channel producing 8–25 min documentary-style videos about family history, ancestry, and hidden historical communities — combining archival-style photography, narrated storytelling, and a mystery/reveal narrative arc. 10 videos per month, ongoing.

Requirements:
- Experience editing long-form, narrative-driven YouTube content (history, genealogy, true-crime, or documentary style — portfolio required)
- Strong sense of pacing for a slow-build, investigative tone with a clear reveal at the end
- Comfortable animating archival/vintage-style photos (subtle Ken Burns pans), working with sepia/desaturated color grading
- Experience with simple map animations (highlighting a US region/state) is a plus
- Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve
- Reliable turnaround, minimal revisions needed

I am tracing whether a deceased ancestor of mine was ever entered on a Greek municipal register (δημοτολόγιο), and if so in which municipality and under what family record number (οικογενειακή μερίδα). The family emigrated generations ago and no Greek record has ever been located. The purpose is to support a citizenship-by-descent registration.

The work is research, enquiry and document retrieval. It is not advocacy and it is not advisory. Legal questions in this matter sit with instructed counsel in Greece, and I am not looking for a second opinion on them.

It runs in three stages, each quoted and approved separately.

Stage 1. Document retrieval, fixed price, one to two hours. Obtaining seven published Greek legal and administrative documents as PDFs. Several are hosted by the Ministry of Interior but I have not been able to download them from the UK. No summarising or commentary; I want the files. This is the first task and it is how we find out whether we work well together.

Stage 2. Telephone and written enquiry, hourly. Contacting municipal register offices and an archive in northern Greece, and a registry office in Athens, to establish what each holds and what each would require in order to search. This stage is asking questions, not requesting records, so no authorisation is involved. One office has not replied to written approaches for several weeks and a call in Greek is a large part of what I am paying for.

Stage 3. Record retrieval, only if Stage 2 identifies a holding office. Obtaining a registration certificate on a proper authorisation, which I will prepare and supply in advance.

What matters to me

Accuracy over speed, and plain reporting of negative results. If an office holds nothing, I want to know exactly what was searched, over which years, and under which spelling variants. A well-documented nil return is worth as much to me as a positive one and is paid at the same rate.

I do not want written analysis. If you find yourself drafting an opinion, send me the source document instead.

A note on the screening questions:

Short answers, in your own words. One or two lines each is what I am expecting. Long, polished, general answers are not what I am looking for, and applications that read as though they were generated will not be shortlisted.

Two further things I would like to know, which are not in the screening questions. Are you an admitted advocate and a member of a Δικηγορικός Σύλλογος, and if so which one? If you are not admitted, say so plainly; it does not disqualify you for this work. And are you on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs register of certified translators, or a graduate of the Ionian University Department of Translation? That is a separate line of work but useful to know.

Please do not:
- Send a general profile or a portfolio of unrelated translation work in place of answers to the - screening questions
- Propose to handle the legal questions
- Quote for the whole project. Quote for Stage 1 only

I am looking for a researcher experienced in forensic genealogy, probate genealogy, heir research, or real-estate title research.

I will provide the name of a deceased Texas property owner, approximate DOB/DOD, last known address, and known public records.

For each assignment, I need:

Identify spouse(s) and marital history
Identify children/descendants
Identify parents and siblings when relevant
Identify descendants of deceased siblings when relevant
Build a clear family tree as of the decedent's date of death
Provide sources supporting each relationship
Clearly distinguish confirmed facts from probable/unverified relationships
Identify likely living family members and available public contact information
Note any probate, obituary, death, marriage, divorce, or other relevant records located

This research supports real-estate title due diligence. I am not asking the researcher to provide a legal opinion regarding who owns the property or inheritance percentages.

Initial assignment will be one case. If the work is accurate and well documented, there may be ongoing assignments.

Dear everyone I need a genealogist to assist with two applicants to obtain evidence of their lineage to a Federally recognized Native American or First Nation Ancestry.

So far, here is what we have: We have $430.00 for the job of hiring a genealogist to research their genealogy and pull digital documentation of lineage to American Indian or first nations of the USA to submit this evidence to the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The clients only have their birth certificates. and a few recent collected details regarding the Mother’s side of the family.

With only this information and the birth certificates to start, we need to build links to a specific federally recognized tribe, we should expect the job to take longer than 10 hours for each individual because the documentary chain may be missing key generations and you will have to find/secure replacement records.
A realistic range becomes:
Hours: ~60–120 hours total for an experienced genealogist
Days: 12–22 workdays of active work
Weeks: 3–6 weeks of active work
Months: could be 1–2 months if records are hard to locate, need translations.

Big drivers:
How many generations must be reconstructed to-make the DNA link meaningful.

Whether you can obtain additional records beyond birth certificates quickly (marriages, baptisms, deaths, land/court, migration).

And records relating to Native American and tribal heritage research, including:
-Dawes Rolls enrollment records
-U.S. Indian Census schedules
- Immigration records
-Tribal affiliation documentation
-Allotment and removal-era records
Whether the DNA can plausibly support a specific tribe (not just general Indigenous North America ancestry).
Beginning in the 1830’s the removal of Indians occurred and beginning in 1948 many thousands of them were offered USA citizenship if they applied within a year and some people applied and then left the USA to reside in Mexico. The descendants of Indians who became USA citizens may have derived USA citizenship from those Indians offered USA Citizenshp if they applied.

There is also the 1830’s removal act under which people were forced out including those who applied for USA citizenship and under the 1848 treaty of Guadalupe those who became citizens.

A DNA test is underway and we hope to get good evidence of North American Indian and First Nation ancestry on the results.

The job is quite simple basic genealogy research. I am just providing the places to check to pull digital records and I am describing some of the historic background details so that you know this amazing historic information.

I will need your resume.

If needed, I will ask the two candidates if they are able to adjust the budget for the candidate who has already completed and produced digital proof
Thank you,
Ms. Powers

PROJECT OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Developer and Manufacturing Software Technical Lead to take a key, long-term role in ORTEK, an advanced manufacturing operations and intelligent planning platform.

ORTEK is an existing and substantially developed product. A significant portion of its manufacturing foundation, business logic, backend services, frontend modules, data models and automated tests is already implemented.

This is not a project to build another basic MES, MRP or scheduling application from scratch.

The selected developer must first understand the existing architecture and validated functionality, then connect, complete, stabilize and certify the different capabilities as one coherent, autonomous and deployment-ready manufacturing platform.

ORTEK is intended to provide an integrated manufacturing environment covering:

Product configuration and multi-level BOM management;

Routings, operations, resources and work centers;

Inventory, warehouse management and material reservations;

Purchasing and subcontracting;

Material Requirements Planning (MRP);

Master Production Scheduling (MPS);

Rough-Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP);

Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP);

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS);

Finite-capacity scheduling;

Multi-order sequencing and dispatching;

Manufacturing order generation and execution;

MES and shop-floor control;

WIP, barcode scanning and production traceability;

Actual material and time consumption;

Quality, nonconformities, scrap, rework and reproduction;

Production progress, OEE and manufacturing performance indicators.

A large part of this scope already exists at different levels of completion.

The main challenge is to ensure that these capabilities are correctly connected through a reliable end-to-end manufacturing flow:

Customer demand and forecasts
→ MPS
→ Multi-level BOM explosion
→ MRP
→ Purchasing, subcontracting and production requirements
→ Inventory availability and material reservations
→ RCCP and CRP
→ APS and finite-capacity scheduling
→ Manufacturing orders
→ Dispatch and shop-floor execution
→ WIP and traceability
→ Actual consumption, quality, scrap and rework
→ Real-time planning updates and manufacturing performance

The selected developer will not be evaluated only on the number of features produced. Success will be measured by the reliability, consistency and operational integrity of the complete manufacturing flow.

PRIMARY MISSION: INTEGRATE, STABILIZE AND CERTIFY THE EXISTING PLATFORM

The immediate mission is to:

Perform a structured audit of the existing platform;

Identify what is complete, partially complete, disconnected or still missing;

Preserve functionality that has already been validated;

Connect the existing modules through consistent business workflows;

Eliminate conflicting legacy and canonical logic;

Complete missing links without unnecessarily rebuilding the platform;

Strengthen data integrity, idempotency and transactional consistency;

Certify the complete end-to-end flows with automated tests;

Make planning results explainable and traceable;

Ensure that operational events update material and capacity plans correctly;

Prepare ORTEK for reliable deployment in real manufacturing environments;

Make the product configurable without making its core dependent on one customer, ERP, XML structure or manufacturing sector.

ORTEK must become the canonical source of truth for:

Materials and components;

Inventory and projected availability;

Reservations and allocations;

Purchased quantities and replenishment requirements;

Reusable remnants and scrap;

Physical WIP outputs;

Manufacturing orders;

Planned and actual operations;

Machine and labor capacity;

Production progress;

Quality events;

Actual consumption;

Rework and replacement requirements;

Manufacturing traceability and genealogy.

INTELLIGENT PLANNING AND MANUFACTURING COPILOT VISION

Once the existing manufacturing foundation is fully connected and certified, ORTEK must evolve into an intelligent planning and decision-support platform.

The long-term objective is not simply to display a Gantt chart. ORTEK should be capable of:

Detecting material and capacity constraints;

Identifying bottlenecks and overloaded work centers;

Proposing feasible production sequences;

Comparing planning scenarios;

Explaining why an order may be late;

Recommending purchasing, subcontracting or capacity actions;

Recalculating plans after production events, shortages, scrap or delays;

Helping planners prioritize manufacturing orders;

Connecting MRP, MPS, RCCP, CRP, APS and MES information;

Providing reliable data and recommendations to managers and production teams;

Progressively supporting a manufacturing planning copilot.

The intelligent-planning layer must be built on reliable manufacturing rules and trustworthy operational data. We are not looking for superficial AI features added on top of inconsistent data.

The selected technical lead should understand that the quality of an intelligent manufacturing copilot depends first on:

A reliable canonical manufacturing model;

Correct BOM and routing structures;

Accurate inventory and material consumption;

Realistic capacity information;

Consistent production-event tracking;

Explainable planning decisions;

Complete and traceable end-to-end workflows.

AI, optimization and decision-support capabilities may be introduced progressively, but they must strengthen the manufacturing logic rather than replace it.

Job Description: I'm looking for an experienced editor/proofreader for Echoes of the Rhine, a 50,000 word historical narrative nonfiction book that follows a real German family's documented journey from the war-torn Rhineland to colonial Pennsylvania. The book is written in the style of The Boys in the Boat, Unbroken, and The Splendid and the Vile — cinematic, emotionally engaging prose grounded in verified historical fact, told in third-person close POV.

What I need:
• A full line edit and proofread pass (grammar, punctuation, consistency, flow, word choice)
• Attention to historical voice — clean, timeless language; no modern idioms, slang, or anachronistic phrasing
• Consistency checks across names, dates, timelines, and recurring motifs (the book follows a strict chapter-by-chapter outline)
• Verification that dialogue reads as period-appropriate and sparse, not overwritten
• Fact-flagging: if something reads as though it overstates certainty on an undocumented detail, flag it — this is nonfiction, and speculation must always be framed as such
• Feedback on pacing and chapter-ending hooks is a bonus, though the primary ask is copyediting/proofreading, not developmental editing

Ideal candidate:
• Strong background editing narrative nonfiction, historical fiction, or biography
• Detail-oriented, deadline-reliable, and able to track a style guide closely
• Prior experience with genealogy-based or immigration-history projects is a plus

Deliverables: Tracked-changes edits (Word or Google Docs) plus a brief editorial summary of recurring issues. Scope: 20 chapters, 50,000 words total, delivered in batches for review as writing progresses.

Due diligence on 1 person , Lu Ning from protium capital

I am looking for a genealogist, preferably based in Germany, who can trace an American family line back to its European roots in Germany, particularly the Stuttgart region, and Slovenia, with connections to the Gottscheer community.

The ideal researcher would have experience working with historical records from both Germany and Slovenia and would be able to speak, read and write German and Slovenian. Knowledge of Gottscheerish (Gottscheerisch) would be a significant advantage, as would the ability to read Cyrillic script and work with older historical and church records.

I am building a large private visual research archive and am looking for an expert archival / visual researcher to continuously discover unusual, obscure, historically interesting, and genuinely difficult-to-find source material.

This is not a data-entry position and I am not looking for someone who simply searches Google Images, Pinterest, or the first few pages of search results.

The primary job is discovery.

I want someone who genuinely enjoys going down research rabbit holes, following leads between collections, and finding material buried in places most people would never think to search.

WHAT YOU'LL RESEARCH

The archive is intentionally broad. Material may include:

Historical, found, vernacular, and institutional photography

Archival films, instructional films, educational films, promotional films, and obscure short films

Scanned books, magazines, newspapers, catalogues, manuals, and guides

Government and institutional publications

School and university archives

Medical and scientific imagery

Fashion and beauty

Architecture and interiors

Art exhibitions and ephemera

Graphic design and visual identity

Advertising and consumer culture

Ceremonies, rituals, etiquette, and social customs

Work and service environments

Religion and morality

Propaganda and public messaging

Crime and scandal

Death and memorial practices

Pageants and competitions

Invitations, brochures, postcards, contact sheets, posters, and other ephemera

Historical websites and digital material

Strange or difficult-to-classify material

I am particularly interested in material that feels specific, strange, forgotten, institutional, culturally revealing, visually unusual, or difficult to locate.

WHERE YOU SHOULD BE COMFORTABLE SEARCHING

I want research to extend well beyond conventional search engines, including:

University special collections

Museum and library databases

National, state, and municipal archives

Government databases

Historical societies

Digitized books and periodicals

Newspaper archives

Photography and film archives

Institutional repositories

Foreign-language collections

Web archives and old websites

Auction and estate archives

Public-domain collections

Poorly indexed or legacy websites

Obscure online databases and communities

Experience with advanced search techniques, OSINT, Tor Browser, and privacy-oriented research tools is a plus when used for lawful research and lawful access to material.

I am not looking for hacked or stolen databases, illegal marketplaces, private information, access-control circumvention, or unlawful material.

HOW THE RESEARCH SHOULD WORK

I want you to source broadly and let me curate narrowly.

I would rather receive 100 genuinely interesting possibilities and select 10 exceptional objects myself than have the researcher make the final curatorial decisions for me.

For useful discoveries, preserve enough information that I can trace the material back to its source:

Original source URL

Direct object/page URL when available

Original title when known

Date/year when known

Source institution/archive

Basic description

Relevant keywords

Downloadable media when legally available

A short note when something about the discovery deserves attention

Do not invent missing dates, titles, identities, provenance, or attribution. Unknown information can remain unknown.

Finding exceptional material is considerably more important to me than producing perfect metadata.

WHO I'M LOOKING FOR

Relevant backgrounds could include archival research, visual research, historical research, academic research, investigative research, library science, digital humanities, journalism, film research, art history, genealogy, or OSINT.

Formal credentials are not required.

What matters most is how you search and what you actually find.

A great researcher should be able to begin with a subject, discover an obscure collection, follow its references into another institution or publication, and eventually uncover material I would be unlikely to discover through ordinary searching.

WHEN APPLYING

Please do not send a generic research proposal.

Instead, answer these questions:

Where do you search for historical or visual material that most people don't know how to find?

Which archives, databases, research methods, search techniques, or tools are you experienced with?

Are you comfortable researching poorly indexed and foreign-language collections?

Are you familiar with Tor Browser, OSINT, or other privacy-oriented research tools for lawful research?

Find 3 genuinely unusual archival items or online collections and send me the links. Briefly explain how you found each one.



I will likely begin with a small paid research trial with several researchers. If your sourcing is consistently strong, unusual, and relevant, this can become an ongoing research position.

I’m looking for someone with basic genealogy research experience to help with a small family-history research task.

The task is to trace and verify information about one specific ancestor/family member, using publicly available genealogy and historical records such as birth, marriage, census, death, or other relevant records.

What I need:

- Search for the person using the information I provide.
- Identify any matching records or reliable sources.
- Cross-check the information to make sure it refers to the correct person.
- Provide the links or source details for anything you find.
- Give me a short summary of your findings.

Budget: $5 fixed price

This is a small one-day task, not a full family-tree project. I expect the work to be completed within 24 hours after hiring.

If you have experience with genealogy research, Ancestry, FamilySearch, FreeBMD, census records, or other public genealogy databases, please apply and briefly mention your experience.

Please apply only if you can complete the task within one day.

Thank you for responding to my Job Offer.
If you apply for this job, the first thing that I will need to review is your resume and I will need clear proof that you are a registered genetic genealogist.
The job offer is to perform genealogist genetic research for Native American and First Nations Ancestry linking two indigenous Mexicans as direct descendants of a US. Federally recognized Native American and First Nations Ancestry.
The United States used to be called the United States of Mexico and the descendants of Mexico are descendants of American Indians and First Nations.
These descendants of American Indians and First Nations are today the indigenous Mexicans whose ancestors were forcibly removed from the United States.
The descendants would be directly related to the First Nations and Native Americans of the United States.
The indigenous Mexicans still practice the cultural and spiritual heritage of their Native American and First Nation ancestors. Many of the First Nations and Native Americans owned land and their descendants who left the United States to live in Mexico, still own or owned the land and continued a long line of agriculture.
With that background, the requirements, require an experienced genetic genealogy researcher with expertise in tracing Native American and First Nations ancestry, and experience linking the Native Americans and First Nations with two Mexicans. I will provide their birth certificates.
Tribes that could be related but not necessarily all include: Inuit, Metis, Kickapoo, Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux,/Lakota, Ojibwe/Chippewa, Apache, Choctaw, Alaska and Canada or any tribe. The US Federal government recognizes 575 American Indian Tribes and six First Nations. Indigenous Mexicans are the descendants of these tribes.
The ideal candidate will need to be a Certified Genetic Genealogist (CCG). If you are also a Board Certified Genealogist and a certified Genealogical Lecturer (CGL) that Is a plus. But, you will need to be a Certified Genetic Genealogist.
The ideal candidate will also have a strong background in historical Native American ancestry and research, access to relevant databases, and the ability to work with tribal records. The ideal candidate will have certifications and experience tracing family lineages and uncovering historical documents that support ancestry claims. If you possess a passion for genetic genealogy and a commitment to accuracy, we encourage you to apply.
The ultimate goal is for the hired candidate to provide clear and verifiable evidence of two Mexicans and their direct bloodline to be presented and accepted as members of these American Indian and First Nations Tribes.
The family surname is Gonzalez.
Ana was born in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Oscar was born in Yubico, Chapulhuacan, Hidalgo, Mexico.

Ana and Oscar have ordered their DNAncestry and I expect to receive it back and will share that too.

I will give you their birth certificates.

I will need clear digital copies of all documents found that support your research including family origin, births, marriages and deaths. If you can provide any immigration and military records that will be helpful.

The main focus of the project is to provide clear digital copies of genetic DNAncestry linking Ana and Oscar as direct descendant from one of the 575, United States Federally recognized American Indian Tribes or First Nations.

I will need the report back in 50 days. Payment will be released when the report and the work is complete. No early release of payments will be released or partial payments. Instead the FULL payment will be released upon the completion of the job.

I may upload another job with the same price of $405.00 to research two additional candidates from Mexico and so on.

Again, If you apply for the job, the first thing that I will need is your resume and proof of your registered genetic certifications, etc. While I love you already if you do not have the genetic genealogy certificate please know that I will be unable to hire you.

I need someone who can work independent and has experience and does not need much supervision.

Ask as many questions as you like. We can even have an upwork phone chat.

Only truly experienced should apply to this time sensitive job.

Please also see the attachment same job description.

Thank you very much to all who apply.
I will hire one of you

Thank you.