Vibe Coding for Family Historians shows genealogy hobbyists, and anyone trying to organize a family medical history, how to build free custom tools using plain English and AI, with no technical background needed.

NEW YORK, NYCITY — August 29, 2026 — A new book launching August 31, "Vibe Coding for Family Historians: Build Your Own Apps to Save, Search, and Share Your Family's Story," teaches readers with no coding background how to build their own custom software using plain English and free AI tools. The book is available August 31 in paperback for $14.95 and as an e-book for $6.99, both through Amazon.

The book is written for people who already save the letters and the photographs, and who ask one more question at the family gathering before the answer is gone for good. Written by Dr. Patricia A. Farrell, a licensed psychologist and longtime family history researcher, it walks readers step by step through building six different tools, each one shaped around a real problem that comes up during genealogy research.

Readers of the book will build:

A family tree organizer 

An ancestor story archive 

A research log and source tracker 

An oral history interview organizer 

A family reunion planner 

A DNA match notes organizer 

A tool for more than genealogy

While the book is built around family tree research, the same skills solve a problem that reaches beyond genealogy. Anyone trying to put together a family medical history for a doctor's appointment faces the same basic task as a genealogist: keeping track of which relative had which condition, when it appeared, and how everyone in the family connects. The Research Log and Source Tracker and the Family Tree Organizer that readers build in this book can be adapted the same way, giving families a clear, organized record of their health history alongside their family story.

No purchase, no download, no coding

Almost every tool a reader needs to complete the book is free. Readers do not buy any software and do not install anything on their computer. Instead, they create a free account with an AI chat tool that is already available online, such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, describe what they want in plain English, and the AI builds a working tool they can open right in a web browser. The book also spends a full chapter on privacy and safety, since family history work involves real people, some of whom are still living.

About the Author

Dr. Patricia A. Farrell, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and the author of numerous books on psychology, health, and personal growth. She has spent years researching her own family's history and built the tools in this book to solve the exact problems that research kept handing her. "Vibe Coding for Family Historians" is the second book in her Vibe Coding series, which teaches total beginners to build their own simple apps for real life, following the first title, "Vibe Coding for the Rest of Us."