Fictional Demo Stories

Meet the Hartwell–Mercer family, a wholly invented archive with its own lore, contradictions, and unsolved questions.

Everything in this demo is fictional. Every name, date, place, record, photograph, story, and DNA match was created for Kin Resolve. No real family data appears here.

Family lore

Nora Hartwell and the blue tin

Nora calls it “Amalia’s tin” in her 1922 journal, while an older family story credits Samuel. An item-by-item timeline may reveal who actually assembled it.

Lantern Bay, WI · provenance disputedFictional demo
Record puzzle

The two girls called Malia Bellandi

Two index entries share the same name. Reconstructing each sibling set can distinguish them—but which seven-year-old Malia belongs in this branch?

Ceraluna Alta, Italy · 1868Fictional demo
Identity mystery

Three figures and the cropped “AR”

Three unnamed figures stand beneath a cropped “AR.” Is it a place name or part of an awning, and was the violet note written when the photograph was taken—or years later?

Undated harbor photograph · place disputedFictional demo
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Test your genealogical skills

Examine thirty synthetic records across five immersive cases, build a cited clue notebook, and test each conclusion against conflicting evidence.

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