Every thorough search deserves a documented statement. Describe your negative search in plain language and get a polished, standards-ready result — formatted for your research log or proof argument. Save all your searches at the end of your session.
Open ToolSearch Smarter. Document Clearly. Analyze with Confidence.
Evidence Toolbox offers focused tools for family historians to write clearer search results, document negative searches, and analyze sources with less friction. Start with structured negative search statements, then grow into a toolkit designed to make your genealogy searches, citations, and evidence analysis more efficient.
Genealogy research is only as strong as the searches you run and the way you document them. Evidence Toolbox focuses on the unglamorous but critical parts of family history work: how you search, how you record what you did, and how you evaluate what you found. Today, you can use Evidence Toolbox to generate clear, citation-ready negative search statements so you can show exactly where you looked, what you searched for, and what you did not find. This kind of documentation strengthens your research reports and proof arguments. Your negative search statements can be saved and used directly as part of your documentation.
As the toolbox grows, it is being built around three core goals for genealogists:
- Better search workflows: tools that help you plan, refine, and record searches across major public genealogy databases and archives.
- Cleaner citations and results formatting: structured outputs that make it easier to reuse your work in research logs, reports, and online trees.
- Practical evidence analysis helpers: utilities that nudge you to compare sources, track conflicts, and think more clearly about reliability and correlation.
Evidence Toolbox is designed for family historians, professional genealogists, and serious hobbyists who care about method, not just hints. If you want your genealogy research to be searchable, explainable, and repeatable, you're in the right place.
Our First Tool
Tools in Development
The following are example tools in progress.
- Citation Fixer — Automatically rewrite messy or incomplete source citations into Evidence‑Explained–style formats.
- Locality Briefing Tool — Generate a concise locality overview: county formation, boundary changes, record availability, and known record losses.
- Obituary Miner — Extract key genealogical facts from obituary text and present them in a structured, research‑ready format.
- BLM Neighbor Analyzer — Review and analyze federal land patents, identify nearby settlers, and analyze settlement patterns using distance‑based clustering.
- Newspaper Search Optimizer — Strengthens your search terms and filters to help you find articles standard searches miss.
About Evidence Toolbox
Evidence Toolbox is built by Glenside Digital LLC, a small independent studio in Pennsylvania. We build tools we actually use ourselves — practical, research-driven software for genealogists who value clarity, accuracy, and well-documented work.