Built in Frederick. Carried forward since 1891.

The Mowl Tree was the prototype.

A few years ago we got serious about a 451 MB photo-heavy book called Trailblazers in Our Deaf Families. It covers 144 Mowls and 158 organizations the family passed through — schools, churches, fraternal clubs, employers. We’d been quietly building a database from it for years.

Eventually the database became a website, the website turned into something useful, and our cousins started asking how they could have one too. So we productized it. That’s 1891 Tree.

What we sell.

Not DNA. Not records access. Not matching. We sell the understanding layer: a website that knows who went where, who worked with whom, who taught whom, and what schools, jobs, and institutions a family flowed through across generations.

Our customers don’t have to be Deaf families. They don’t have to have a published book. They don’t have to know what they’re doing. They send us the pile. We turn it into the site.

Why we charge.

Because a human reads every document. Because we host every site. Because we won’t make up your family.

$299 to set up. $19–$79 a month to keep it running. Cancel any time with your data in hand.

The line we don’t cross.

We do not invent facts about your family. The AI editor proposes; the human approves. Every approved fact is anchored to a source quote from a document you supplied. If the documents don’t say it, we leave the field empty.

This is the most important constraint in the product. It’s what makes the difference between us and every “AI genealogy” hustle on the internet, and it’s how we earn the right to charge $299 to set up a site and a monthly fee to keep it running. Grandma needs to be able to trust every word on the page. We build accordingly.

Contact.

Anthony Mowl runs this. Email hello@madeby1891.com or use the contact form. Replies in one business day.

“Built in Frederick. Carried forward since 1891. Five generations Deaf.”