Original historical research · All 50 states

Every location in the US has a story.

Aubrey finds it.

Enter any location. Aubrey searches millions of federal, state, and local records. From the first peoples to the twentieth century, the complete history of your location, researched and written for you.

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5 million+

Primary source records from federal, state, and local archives

15,000+

Years of history researched for every search

States covered. Search any location in America.

Uncovered in every reportHistoric places & landmarksConflicts & battlesCivil War recordsNative peoples historyLiDAR terrain scansSteamboats, canals & railroadsHistorical mapsGeological surveyNotable peopleCommunity & Census records

How Aubrey works

Enter any location. Aubrey does the rest.

Type a city, town, county, or ZIP code. Within minutes, Aubrey searches federal and state archives including the National Register of Historic Places, General Land Office patents, Civil War records, Census data, USGS surveys, and more, then writes your report.

Every section is grounded in verified records. No invented history, no filler. Just the documented story of your location, written in plain English, with every significant site plotted on a live map.

Map shown: a real Aubrey report for Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.

Centuries of American history, mapped for your location.

The moment your report is ready, everything Aubrey has found is plotted on a fully interactive map. Click any marker to explore what was recorded. Toggle between historic sites, Civil War events, Indigenous heritage, and more.

◆Centuries of documented history. From the first peoples to the twentieth century. Every significant event, structure, and community that shaped your location.

◆Federal and state archives. Millions of primary source records drawn from the deepest archives in American history, searched so you don't have to.

◆Historic sites, mapped for you. Every significant site in your area plotted on a live, interactive map. Click any marker to explore what was recorded there.

◆Written in plain English. No raw data dumps. Aubrey synthesises everything into a clear, readable report. The complete story of your location.

Map shown: a real Aubrey report for Providence, Rhode Island.

Living Reports

Your report stays alive. We keep researching it.

Most research is a one-time thing. You pay once, you get it once, and that's that. Aubrey is different. For as long as you subscribe, we keep digging into the places you care about, and whenever we turn up something genuinely new we add it to your report as a Discovery.

◆New Discoveries over time: a buried source, a forgotten detail, a link between two of your locations.

◆Every Discovery is real and traced to its source. We never invent one to fill a gap.

◆It runs quietly on every location you research, and lands in your account and your inbox.

Pricing

Your location. Discovered by Aubrey.

Single report

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Thousands of historical sources researched for one location, yours to keep forever.

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America's history is the best-documented in the world.

The United States has been collecting, digitizing, and indexing its historical records for over two centuries. The National Archives, the Library of Congress, the USGS, the General Land Office. Together they hold hundreds of millions of documents spanning from the first European contacts to the twentieth century.

Aubrey draws on all of it. For any location, in any state.

Most of this history has never been read. Aubrey reads it for your location, in minutes.

97,000+

National Register of Historic Places listings

5 million+

General Land Office patents and plats

Up to 15

Deep-dive sections in every US report

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Civil War soldier records cross-referenced

Aubrey Discoveries

American history lands in your inbox.

Real discoveries from real Aubrey reports. Historic sites uncovered, Civil War stories, forgotten settlements. One email, every two weeks. Free.

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