Building MCP Servers for Genealogy: AI-Powered Historical Research

For years now, I’ve been writing a book tracing four family branches across Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa. One thread follows Louis Rau, my 3rd great-uncle, who was president of Compagnie Continentale Edison (CCE) in the early 1900s. He was an Edison Pioneer, part of the inner circle that brought Edison's electrical systems to Europe. Last year, I found that Thomas Edison's papers were digitized at Rutgers University. So I navigated to edisondigital.rutgers.edu , typed "Louis Rau" in