The disclosure, in plain language
Rowan is a made character. The sources are the point.
AI-created presenter. Human-researched and reviewed. General genealogy education — not a professional research service or a guarantee of ancestry.
Who Rowan is
Rowan Vale is a fictional AI-created educational host. Rowan is not a real genealogist, archive worker, historian, lawyer, family member, or client. Rowan does not have a family tree, ancestry, credentials, personal memories, or private access to records.
What the humans do
- Research and review each lesson using public, rights-cleared, permissioned, or clearly labeled synthetic examples.
- Show sources, access dates, scope, uncertainty, and corrections.
- Keep the method bounded: one clue, one question, one next source.
- Refuse to infer identity, relationship, ethnicity, nationality, or historical fact from a name, photo, or single hint.
- Keep the site and product useful without asking for a private family tree, DNA data, or database credentials.
What this is not
It is not a chatbot that researches your family for you, a database subscription, a professional case service, or a promise that the next search will resolve a brick wall. The product teaches a human-reviewed method and leaves the uncertainty visible.
Questions or concerns
Contact guide@familyrecordroom.com. Please do not send private family records or living-person details. Mailing address: 400 Spectrum Center Dr, Irvine, CA 92618.