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10 Colonial Records Search — Development skill for Claude Code

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Colonial Records Search.

How to install 10 Colonial Records Search

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/mattprusak-autoresearch-genealogy-10-colonial-records-search/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mattprusak-autoresearch-genealogy-10-colonial-records-search && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattprusak/autoresearch-genealogy/HEAD/prompts/10-colonial-records-search.md -o ~/.claude/skills/mattprusak-autoresearch-genealogy-10-colonial-records-search/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What 10 Colonial Records Search does

Colonial Records Search

Search for colonial American ancestors in pre-1800 records.

Autoresearch Configuration

**Goal**: For every ancestor in `[VAULT_PATH]/Family_Tree.md` who lived in colonial America (pre-1800), search for records that would extend the line further back or fill biographical details.

**Metric**: Number of colonial-era ancestors with at least one primary source citation

**Direction**: Maximize

**Verify**: Count persons in Family_Tree.md with dates before 1800 who hav

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