Welcome, Family Locket readers!
More genealogy
in less time
Genealogy software to speed up research, untangle family trees, and stay happily organized.
Goldie May can help you Research Like a Pro from objective to research report!
Objective: Goldie May helps you start a focused research project by separating your research into projects with objectives.
Timeline and Analysis: Use the Subway Map feature to see the locations and times of ancestors plotted on a graph. This helps you notice conflicting places and information.
Locality Research: Links in the Subway Map take you directly to helpful resources like the FamilySearch Wiki and maps to help learn about the locality.
Research Planning: Make your research plan in Goldie May with the project task list. Links in the Subway Map take you to useful collections at the FamilySearch library catalog, Ancestry's card catalog, and AMAZINGLY - many digitized newspaper collections relevant to your research subject's locations.
Research Logging: The Goldie May research log is a wonderful alternative to manual research logging - and it's FREE. Turn on automatic research logging to make sure none of your discoveries get lost! Use the screenshot tool to save images to your research log automatically. Then, move images to your canvas, annotate them, place multiple screenshots next to each other, and add text, to help you analyze what you're finding.
Citations: Take your research log to the next level of efficiency and ease by having automatic citations added to your log. If you do the bulk of your research in FamilySearch indexed collections, this will make your life much easier! The citations in FamilySearch are close to perfect. All you need to do is update the access date. The text-message like autofill suggestions can also simplify typing citations on FamilySearch or Ancestry by suggesting common citation information.
Report Writing: Find information from your automatic research log with the search bar to facilitate writing your research report. Just search for "Eliza Isenhour" or "tax" to find all relevant records for the particular section you're working on.
Bonus feature we love:
DNA Match Blurring: If you are teaching about using DNA evidence, the DNA match blurring tool is a must! Now you can do live demos without revealing names and private information about living people in your match list.
— Diana & Nicole
“I can say without equivocation that this is the first genealogy app that directly helps me with my research...”
Genealogy-specific tools
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Projects
- Organize your research into projects, each with an objective, subjects, and research plan. Great for client work or all your family lines.
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Research log
- Mark each item in your log as a positive or negative result. Write abstracts and comments. Search your log. Export it to a spreadsheet.
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Automatic research log
- Turn it on, then start researching. Goldie May keeps a list of all the sites you visit, rabbit holes and all.
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Screenshots
- Take screenshots and save them directly to your research log.
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Citations
- On known websites, citations are created for you.
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Snapshots of your windows & tabs
- Too many browser tabs open? Take a snapshot and save them for later. Let's call it rabbit-hole insurance.
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Accessible from anywhere
- Your data is stored in the cloud. Access your projects from the library, an archive, or your nearest FamilySearch center.
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Subway Map
- See where your ancestor lived over time with this unique timeline tool. See census and newspaper hints in context. See county and state boundary changes in context.
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Newspaper coverage tool
- See which newspapers ran when and where your ancestor lived and open them on the provider's website.
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Canvas
- Sort out tricky situations like pre-1850 U.S. censuses with this visual tool, as if you were sorting papers on your kitchen table.
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Catalog of catalogs
- See what collections the big genealogy and newspaper sites have for a given time and place and quickly go there.
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Auto-search
- Launch searches into census records, and quickly jump to the next and previous census for that location.
Pricing
Subscriptions
Do even more with a Goldie May subscription.
Free
No catch. Just trying to help the cause.
FREE
Install on- Get organized with Projects & Tasks
- Keep an automatic research log
- Take screenshots
- Analyze your research with Subway Map timeline tool (5 ancestors/month)
- Snapshot your windows & tabs (1 set)
- Contribute to FamilySearch Tree with Volunteering
Goldie May Plus
Genealogy power tools.
$12 $9.60
/month
Discount code FAMILYLOCKET applied for 20% off
- Every feature in FREE plan
- Analyze your research with Subway Map timeline tool (UNLIMITED)
- Snapshot your windows & tabs (UNLIMITED)
- Jump between adjacent censuses while searching
- Sort out tricky situations with visual Canvas tool
- Email support (richard@goldiemay.com)
- 30-day, money-back guarantee. No questions, just email me.
- Month to month. No long-term commitment. No cancelation fees.
Goldie May Pro
For genealogy professionals.
$24 $19.20
/month
Discount code FAMILYLOCKET applied for 20% off
- Every feature in PLUS plan
- Automatic citations on supported sites
- Blurring of DNA pages for genetic genealogy educators
- Email support (richard@goldiemay.com)
- 30-day, money-back guarantee. No questions, just email me.
- Month to month. No long-term commitment. No cancelation fees.
Student Pricing
Goldie May Pro is available to degree or certificate-seeking students for $36/year.
To qualify, send a screenshot of your student portal, showing your name, student status, and graduation date, to richard@goldiemay.com, after which, I'll enable student pricing on your existing Goldie May free account and then you can check out with a card.
Please exclude or block out other personal information like social security number, physical address, etc. in your screenshot.
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About & Contact
On a personal note, I'm a software developer who worked in tech roles at three genealogy companies. Now I'm building Goldie May to be the tool I want for my own genealogy research. I hope it's also useful to you!
Goldie is my great-grandmother's name and May comes from a beloved ancestor on my wife's side of the family.
If you have any questions or comments, I'd love to hear from you!
— Richard K. Miller
- richard@goldiemay.com