A global education and heritage organisation
Long-running genealogy and heritage data partnership.
This is a Lifewood Data Technology case study in Genealogy · Heritage — an engagement delivered for a global education and heritage organisation across Global · Education. Long-running genealogy and heritage data partnership.
What was the challenge?
Genealogy and family-history programs require entity-linked data across census, parish, and migration records, with archival OCR including handwritten-text recognition.
How did Lifewood approach it?
Lifewood maintains a long-running data partnership with the organisation, delivered across 40+ delivery centers and 50+ languages, covering genealogy data curation, structured family-history datasets, and heritage archival digitisation.
What was the outcome?
Continuing collaboration anchoring Lifewood’s heritage / genealogy capability, complemented by the May 2026 Malaysia Genealogy Event activation.
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Questions about this programme
Entity linkage. A census page, a parish register and a migration record may all refer to the same person under different spellings, in different scripts, recorded decades apart — and the value of the dataset is entirely in connecting them correctly. Scanning the pages is the easy half; resolving the identities across them is the work, held to the same 95%+ accuracy SLA as every other Lifewood programme.
Yes — archival OCR on this partnership includes handwritten-text recognition, which is a materially different problem from printed OCR. Historical hands vary by scribe, era and region, and the source documents are often damaged, faded or bound in ways that resist flat scanning.
It is a long-running data partnership covering genealogy data curation, structured family-history datasets and heritage archival digitisation, and it anchors Lifewood's heritage and genealogy capability. It runs under the same 95%+ accuracy SLA and dual-layer review as every other Lifewood programme, across 40+ delivery centers. It was complemented by the Malaysia Genealogy Event activation in May 2026.
Entity-linked records rather than page images: a person, their recorded events, and the documentary sources that evidence each one, joined so a family line can be traced across archives. That structure is what makes the archive searchable and, increasingly, what makes it readable by machines rather than only by researchers.
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