Kinpoint.com for Free Family Tree Checks

Kinpoint.com is a new website that offers free family tree analysis of FamilySearch family trees.

Kinpoint has free services as well as premium services. Free services include checks to verify vital information is properly recorded for each person in your tree. Kinpoint puts a yellow circle by a person’s name if there is any vital information that needs to be properly sourced: a death location is missing, a birthdate, etc. For LDS users Kinpoint also looks for any ordinance work that still needs to be done for ancestors in your tree.

Kinpoint’s premium services include looking for possible problems in your tree, like a parent born after the birth of a child, and they have source hints and matches that can help you find more documentation for people in your tree. Work done in Kinpoint updates into your FamilySearch tree reducing the need for duplicate work.

I have several trees on different sites and one on my home computer but was surprised to see that my free FamilySearch tree has so much vital information missing. This will be a fun clean-up chore I’ll let my kids help with because the information will be so simple to document. It’s rare to find such low-hanging fruit on a family tree and I’m excited to use Kinpoint to introduce my kids to family history work in a way that’s visual and will give them instant success. Happy hunting during #FamilyHistoryMonth!