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reeeeemo/ancestry-mcp

⭐ 37 Python added to this list on 2025-05-06 repository created 2024-11-28

Ancestry MCP Server is a Python Model Context Protocol server for working with GEDCOM files, the .ged genealogy exchange format commonly exported from Ancestry.com and similar family-history sites. It is built on the official Model Context Protocol Python SDK and published to PyPI as mcp-server-ancestry, with an entry on Smithery for automatic installation into Claude Desktop. The README opens with a deprecation notice: the server was built against a 2024-11-26 snapshot of the Python SDK and is no longer maintained, so it should be read as a reference implementation rather than a current dependency. The server exposes one resource, gedcom://{file_name}, as the interface for file operations, plus three tools. list_files lists one or several .ged files inside the configured directory. rename_file renames one or several files, taking the old and the new name. view_file parses and reads the full contents of a file, can read several files at once, and can pull specific facts out of them such as a date of birth or a marriage. Together they let an assistant answer questions about individuals and families recorded in a family tree export without the user opening genealogy software. Access is constrained: the server only permits operations inside the directory passed to it in args, which is set through the --gedcom-path argument in the client configuration. Installation is pip install mcp-server-ancestry, followed by an mcpServers entry in claude_desktop_config.json that runs the mcp-server-ancestry command with that path argument. The project is MIT licensed. It suits hobbyist genealogists who keep local GEDCOM exports and want to interrogate them conversationally, and developers looking for a small worked example of exposing a domain file format through MCP resources and tools.

https://github.com/reeeeemo/ancestry-mcp

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