About
Welcome to Pedigree Pipeline, a place for me to share tips and techniques for automating genealogy and family history research — along with other insights or discoveries from my research itself. Much of my work is computer-centric these days, and I often find myself repeating the same tasks. As a software engineer, I’m always thinking about how to automate these workflows — primarily on a Mac, using the Unix command line and Mac-centric automation tools.
The $ pedigree | pipeline wordmark evokes a Unix command line and ‘piping’ one command to another.
I’m Todd Wells, a software engineer and family history researcher based in Seattle. I’ve been pursuing genealogy and family history research off and on since 2002.
I may also end up sharing some original research here.