1. A computer-implemented method for extracting personal information from a family history document, comprising: applying optical character recognition (OCR) to a digital image of a family history document to create an OCR copy; identifying a person's name in the digital image; extracting name data from the OCR copy representing the name; confirming accuracy of the extracted name data; publishing the extracted name data in a searchable format; identifying a family relationship indicator corresponding to the identified person's name in the digital image, and extracting relationship data from the OCR copy representing the family relationship indicator.