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You're three months into an unknown parentage case. The shared segment on GEDmatch that linked your subject to a family in Ohio — you found it during a 2 AM session two weeks ago, somewhere between forty open tabs of census records and vital record indexes. Now you need it and it's gone. TabVault captures every page you browse during genetic genealogy research and full-text indexes it locally. That shared segment analysis, the obituary that named the birth mother, the FamilySearch record you almost scrolled past — all of it lives in your searchable private database, waiting for the moment the pieces click.
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