The Hill Family

Enjoy Exploring our History

Welcome to our interactive family museum where people, places, and stories come alive. We've moved beyond traditional genealogy databases to create immersive historical experiences that let you explore our family's journey through time, with all the uncertainty, possibilities, and rich context that real research reveals.

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Museum-Quality Curation

Every story is carefully researched, fact-checked, and presented with academic rigor. We show possibilities as possibilities and acknowledge what we don't yet know.

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Time & Place Exploration

Interactive maps and historical context bring our ancestors' world to life. Understand not just when and where, but what the world was like for them.

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Story-Driven Discovery

Follow your curiosity through interconnected family stories. Each person's life connects to historical events, family patterns, and surprising discoveries.

Step Into Maude's World

Meet Maude Amanda Minns (1869-1929), an educated woman who navigated Victorian society through two marriages and five children. Explore her story as it unfolds across 60 years of social change - complete with mysteries still unsolved and possibilities we're still investigating.

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Museum Exhibition Features

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Complete Life Stories

See everyone present at life events - witnesses, family members, community connections

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Multiple Perspectives

View the same events through different family members' experiences and historical context

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Historical Geography

Interactive maps showing family movements within the context of historical events

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Research Transparency

See exactly what evidence supports each conclusion - and what questions remain unsolved

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Honest Uncertainty

Three possible fathers? Unknown birth location? We show possibilities as possibilities

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Living History

Experience what the world was like when your ancestors lived - social context and historical events

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Experience Pathfinder Design

Never feel lost in complex family data - always know where you are and where you can go next

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Explore Like the Crazy Human You Are

Jump from person to place to story and back - follow rabbit holes and make unexpected connections

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