The project helps families, students, historians, and the public understand complex historical relationships by offering a clear and accessible way to explore economic and political patterns.
By converting historical data into layered visualizations, the project makes hidden connections between families, regions, and professions easy to see and analyze.
In the future, these tools could expand into virtual reality or classroom platforms, offering students immersive ways to study history with new methods to compare census data across time and place. By converting records into layered visualizations, they fulfilled core DH values of open access and interdisciplinary collaboration.
