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AP One-Place Studies – Parish & Village Record Studies
AP One-Place Studies – Parish & Village Record Studies

AP One-Place Studies – Parish & Village Record Studies

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AP One-Place Studies is a WordPress-native home for a one-place study: the history of a parish, village, street or house told through the records of the people who lived there.

Your data lives in your own WordPress database and can always be exported in full. No lock-in, ever – a study should outlive its author, and it only can if the data is truly yours.

Built by AncestorPress – tools for family history, built to last.

What You Can Do With the Free Version

  • A searchable occurrence index – every appearance of a name in a source, filterable by name, record type, year range and place. The thing a blog cannot do
  • CSV import with reusable mapping templates – prebuilt layouts for FreeBMD, UK census returns, parish registers and monumental inscriptions; save your own template for any source. Every import is a record set you can reverse as a unit
  • Every person in a record – a baptism records the child and both parents, a marriage the couple and every witness, each findable in their own right
  • As-recorded discipline – the original spelling, date and place string are stored verbatim, never overwritten; standardised values sit alongside with precision indicators, always correctable
  • Place, street and property pages – a place hierarchy from the study place down to individual buildings, with occupancy over time
  • Household views – a census household as a unit, traceable across census years
  • A surname index – auto-generated, with spelling grouping
  • Privacy that fails closed – a configurable living-person cutoff (default 100 years) on every public page; anything undated or inside the window is never displayed
  • Map embeds – frame your study place with an embedded map from OpenStreetMap, uMap, Google My Maps or the NLS historic mapping, entirely optional
  • Complete CSV export – every field of every record, including your as-recorded originals, plus the place hierarchy
  • Archive export for preservation and handover – one ZIP holding the whole study as documented JSON plus flat CSVs and a plain-English README, built so your study outlives you and your platform

This free plugin is the complete home of a one-place study: the studied place, its records, people, households and public pages. All current editions manage one place study per WordPress site. A Pro edition with additional functionality (study roles with a contributor review queue, the compiled Study Report, archive restore, AI import assistance and research suggestion tools) is obtained from ancestorpress.com and installed as the paid build of the plugin – its code is not part of this free package.

Who It Is For

One-place studies reconstruct a community: everyone who appears in a place’s records, not one family’s line. If you are documenting a parish, village, hamlet, street or house – for the Society for One-Place Studies, a local history group, or your own fascination – this gives your study a permanent, searchable, publishable home you own.

We are listening

AP One-Place Studies is new. We have built it with care and with respect for the discipline, but one-place study is a deep field with conventions we may not have caught. If we have missed something that matters to your study, we would rather hear it than not – tell us on the plugin’s Future Direction page. (For troubleshooting, please use the WordPress.org support forum.)

More from AncestorPress

AP One-Place Studies is one of a small family of AncestorPress tools for publishing family history research. Each works on its own, and all are free on WordPress.org:

  • AP Family Trees – publish beautiful, interactive family trees: charts and member profiles on any page. Shares its data core with One-Place Studies, so the same database serves both.
  • AP One-Name Studies – the same care applied to a surname study: one registered surname, its spellings, occurrence index, maps and public pages.
  • AP Family Archive – publish your family history as a complete website: a person page for every ancestor, family group pages, a surname index and full search.
  • AP Family Research – the private workbench behind the published tree: capture certificates, photos and notes as artefacts, work your research questions, and log every search, including the ones that found nothing. Nothing it holds is ever published; a proven conclusion is promoted into the shared data core with its citations attached.

Third-party libraries

This plugin bundles the following open-source libraries. All are GPL-compatible.

  • php-gedcom by Kristopher Wilson – MIT licence. A namespaced GEDCOM library bundled with the shared AncestorPress core, used by the suite’s GEDCOM services.
  • Freemius WordPress SDK by Freemius – GPLv3. Used for licence management on the Pro plan.

Privacy and data

This plugin does not collect or transmit any personal data from your site or your visitors to us. All study data is stored exclusively in your own WordPress database. The optional public contact form emails enquiries to the study contact address you set, and nowhere else. If you configure a map embed, your visitors’ browsers load that map from the provider you chose; no map is loaded until you set one.

This plugin bundles the Freemius SDK for licensing and update management. What it does, and when:

  • On activation Freemius may show a one-time opt-in screen. Opting in sends basic environment and account information – your site URL, WordPress and PHP versions, and the email address you enter – to Freemius so it can provide update notices and support. This opt-in is optional: click Skip and the plugin stays fully functional; nothing is transmitted, and no licence activation is required to use the free plugin.
  • If you buy and activate a Pro licence the SDK contacts Freemius to validate the licence and deliver Pro updates.
  • Your study data and your visitors’ data are never sent to Freemius.

Freemius’s terms and privacy policy: Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

External services

Freemius

Purpose: optional account connection, licence administration, checkout for the Pro edition and usage diagnostics, provided by Freemius, Inc. This free package is updated from WordPress.org.

When: only if you opt in, connect or manage an account or licence, use checkout, or consent to diagnostics. If you skip the opt-in, everything in the free edition still works.

Data: the site address, the administrator email you provide, plugin and WordPress versions and licence identifiers; usage diagnostics only with consent. Your study data is never sent.

Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/
Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

AncestorPress Support Service

Purpose: the optional Help assistant, the AncestorPress Support Copilot, answers questions about using the plugin. Where an AI provider is connected in WordPress (Settings > Connectors), that provider answers first, at your own cost, and the AncestorPress Support Service, provided by Black and White Trading Ltd, supplies the matching documentation; if that provider cannot answer and the site is connected to the service, the assistant automatically falls back to the service. Where none is connected, the service answers a few questions a month itself, free. The assistant is read-only.

When: nothing is sent until an administrator opens the assistant and accepts its privacy notice. The acceptance is recorded with who gave it and when, and can be withdrawn on the Support screen.

Answered by your own AI provider: your question and chat history go only to that provider. The service is asked only for documentation, and receives the site address, the plugin and its version, the admin screen, and any Freemius installation ID or support token – never your question.

Answered by the service (no AI provider connected, or your AI provider’s answer failed – in either case only when the site is connected through the Freemius opt-in or a support token on the Support screen): the question and up to 20 recent chat messages; the site address and any Freemius installation ID or support token, to authorise the request; this plugin’s version, the versions of other active plugins whose folders begin “ap-” or “ancp-“, the admin screen, and your database version, the core library version, and how many studies you have – never their contents. Your study data is never sent: no place, record, surname, person or source leaves your site, only the counts. The free plan answers a limited number of questions a month.

Tickets: with a licence or support token, only when you open the ticket form and click “Create ticket” does the plugin also send the conversation, the details above, the question category, the contact email you enter (pre-filled with your WordPress account email) and the first and last name from your WordPress profile; these are kept as a support ticket. On the free plan no ticket form is offered, so none of this is sent, and help from a person is on the WordPress.org support forum.

Retention: questions are not stored, and the conversation stays in your browser until you leave the page. Authorisation checks are cached for up to 12 hours; rate-limit and free-plan counters are kept against a hash of your host name (monthly counts for about 40 days); daily usage counters with no site identifier are kept for up to 180 days. Please do not paste details of living people into a question.

Terms: https://ancestorpress.com/terms/
Privacy: https://ancestorpress.com/privacy-policy/