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About this family tree

A shared family history, cared for together

This archive brings family connections, stories, and supporting records into one place. It is open to explore, while sensitive information and every new contribution are handled with care.

Pedraza Ancestry · Version 1.30.97 · 10/18/2026 · Live site version 996

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Everyone can browse the family connections. Select a person to follow parents, siblings, spouses, and children through the tree.

Save or share a family record

Use Reports to print a household summary or copy a direct link to a person’s profile for relatives who have access.

Request family access

Register or sign in, then request access. The tree administrator approves each request before private profile details and pictures are shown.

Share what you know

You may submit a person, life event, or picture. A receipt email confirms the submission, and a second email reports the administrator’s decision. Nothing becomes part of the tree until it is approved.

Mission Statement

Pedraza Ancestry was created with one purpose: to preserve our families’ stories before time can erase them. As the years pass, memories fade, photos are misplaced, and the details that once defined our loved ones risk slipping away. I realized that if we don’t actively protect our history, it disappears — quietly, piece by piece. This project grew from that realization and from a deep desire to gather the names, faces, journeys, and sacrifices that shaped who we are today.

This site is my effort to build a living archive of our heritage. It brings together the stories, connections, and traditions that make our families unique, so they can be explored, remembered, and passed forward. I want future generations to feel a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves — to understand where they come from, to recognize the strength and resilience in their roots, and to carry our legacy with pride.

Pedraza Ancestry is more than a family tree. It is a tribute to those who came before us and a gift to those who will follow. It is built with love, so our story is never forgotten.

Privacy Statement

Pedraza Ancestry is a private genealogy platform with a limited public-facing component. Visitors may browse publicly available information, including the names of individuals—living or deceased—who are part of our family tree. No photographs or personal details of living individuals are displayed publicly.

Access to profile information and additional photos requires user registration. Registered users may view expanded content and, once associated with a specific individual in the tree, may control the visibility of their own profile and any photos they choose to upload. You may turn your profile and images on or off at any time.

We process personal information on the basis of your consent, our legitimate interest in preserving family history, and your right to control how your information is shared. We collect only the information necessary to maintain the integrity of the family tree and to provide you with the features of the site. We do not sell, trade, or disclose your personal data to third parties.

We take privacy and data security seriously. Appropriate technical and administrative safeguards are in place to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data at any time.

Thank you for your trust and for contributing to the preservation of our shared heritage. Your participation helps ensure that our family’s story is protected for future generations.

About the Logo

The name at the top reflects the origin of my family name, which comes from the historic town of Pedraza in the Province of Segovia, Spain. Within the circular emblem, you’ll find two landmarks that represent this heritage: the Cathedral of Segovia on the left and the iconic Alcázar of Segovia on the right.

Along the bottom, the flags symbolize the countries that form our families’ journey. The sequence begins with Spain, where our roots lie, followed by Cuba, representing the significant migration of our relatives, and ultimately the United States, where our families came together. The remaining flags honor all other nations connected to our lineage along the way.

What’s new

Version 1.30.97 · 10/18/2026

1.30.97 · 10/18/2026: (Live site version 996) Brings the offline archive closer to the live site with matching branding and navigation, searchable person profiles, family cards, timelines, albums, Photo Stories, a Home collage, connected family charts, and a touch-enabled picture viewer with zoom, pan and collapsible tags and thumbnails.

Recent release history · maintained

1.30.96 · 10/18/2026: (Live site version 995) Restores horizontal and vertical finger panning after pinch zoom in the shared picture viewer on phones and tablets, while keeping photo swipes at normal zoom and refreshing the viewer script cache.

1.30.95 · 10/18/2026: (Live site version 994) Makes mirror offline downloads read the mirror’s synchronized database and original media directly instead of forwarding each request to Sites, retaining signed-in access checks and resumable transfers.

1.30.94 · 10/18/2026: (Live site version 993) Loads the offline downloader directly after confirmed sign-in so a redundant preparation request cannot disable the Help button; download requests continue to enforce account permissions on the server.

1.30.93 · 10/18/2026: (Live site version 992) Restores the Help introduction and offline download button to the established left alignment, with room extending to the right, and waits for restored sign-in before preparing downloads for all registered users.

1.30.92 · 10/18/2026: (Live site version 991) Adds registered-user offline website downloads from Help with original-quality media, account-specific access filtering, resumable transfers, verified reuse of unchanged files, portable ZIP or folder output, and a full-width Help introduction.

1.30.91 · 10/17/2026: (Live site version 990) Adds left/right touch swipes to the shared picture viewer on phones and tablets, retaining edge arrows and preserving pinch zoom, zoomed panning, vertical gestures, and face-tag editing.

1.30.90 · 10/17/2026: (Live site version 989) Completes preservation checks for offline links and exact source commits, retains contribution decision history with retired temporary-upload references documented separately, and adds verified dependency caching and a secret-free recovery configuration template.

1.30.89 · 10/17/2026: (Live site version 988) Hardens preservation recovery against overwriting existing files and unsafe archive entries, excludes local credential and build caches from dependency packages, and adds verified download caching, four concurrent streams, and a Windows backup launcher.

1.30.88 · 10/17/2026: (Live site version 987) Adds administrator-authorized independent preservation exports for both sites, including complete archive databases and schema, original media, source and dependencies, GEDCOM, offline browsing and Photo Stories, SHA-256 manifests, encrypted packages and verified SQLite recovery.

1.30.87 · 10/17/2026: (Live site version 986) Adds searchable public person profiles and a family-name directory, with names and public family connections in the sitemap. Search results open the selected person in the People page; private information remains access-controlled.

1.30.86 · 10/17/2026: (Live site version 985) Adds crawlable public Home, About, and Help pages, search metadata and structured data, a public sitemap, and indexing exclusions for account and private-content URLs. Uses Pedraza Ancestry as the canonical address for both sites.

1.30.85 · 10/15/2026: (Live site version 984) Aligns the About-page crest and logo with the About this family tree label while preserving their sizes and horizontal positions.

1.30.84 · 10/11/2026: (Live site version 983) Adds Resend email verification for new Family Tree accounts and administrator controls to resend verification links. Family access remains subject to administrator approval.

1.30.83 · 10/10/2026: (Live site version 982) Reduces automatic synchronization to four daily runs at 8 AM, noon, 4 PM, and 8 PM Eastern, adjusting for daylight saving time.

People profiles now prioritize meaningful original GEDCOM biography fields and present them in one organized Biographical Details section.
Technical GEDCOM placeholders and duplicate display fields are no longer shown on profiles.
Gender now displays consistently as Male or Female when the original GEDCOM uses M or F.
Repeated uploads of the same picture now reuse one original file while preserving separate person-level crops and descriptions.
New Help Center with a searchable reference guide for visitors, members, contributors, and administrators.
People profiles now include a Home person shortcut and identify half-siblings separately from full siblings.
New Family Map and Migration History view for recorded family places.
New Family Stories view with timelines, relatives, and research notes.
Contributors can review the status of submissions and administrator feedback.
Research citations now show their linked target and source-quality status.

New Family Archive Health review identifies potential duplicates, date conflicts, relationship questions, and incomplete records without changing information automatically.
A completeness guide points administrators to profiles that may need key details, connections, media, or evidence.
Research now summarizes strong, limited, and unresolved evidence, with a confidence choice for new citations.
Family History now includes a focused branch summary for the selected person.

Birth, death, marriage, and education records are now grouped clearly together in People profiles and the Contribute form.
Family record review begins with the four newest updates, with a button to view earlier items when needed.

People profiles now mirror the grouped Birth, Death, Marriage, Education, and Other biographical details layout used in Contribute.
Administrator notifications and Family record review both begin with the latest four entries and offer access to earlier entries.
The family chart right-click menu now offers profile editing, moving the chart root, setting a home person, printing a branch, and administrator-only person removal.

Administrators can add, correct, and remove family connections in People, with a preview and checks against duplicate groups and circular ancestry.
People includes advanced name, surname, place, date, photo, source, and missing-information filters. Library brings uploaded photos, PDFs, sources, and document references together with associated people. Stories includes person-specific share links and printable family stories. The Help Center explains each feature.
Approved family-access users can choose their own personal Home person without changing the tree-wide administrator setting.
On the family chart, Edit Person and Delete Person are administrator-only; approved viewers retain navigation, printing, and Home person options.
Right-click guidance now points visitors to the chart’s additional options.
Stewardship now provides a one-click current GEDCOM backup with a last-backup indicator, alongside the archive change history and review controls.
The Family Tree page now includes a compact, fixed, scrollable list of every individual for quick chart navigation.

The People, Stories, and Reports menus now use a shared fixed, scrollable individual-list component instead of separate selector implementations.

Administrators can review the detailed tree-change history in the Stewardship menu.

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