I've been sketching a small machine that could scan hand‑drawn kinship charts and turn them into a clean, searchable database—might be handy for your fieldwork.

I’ll design a two‑stage system. First, a high‑resolution scanner feeds the images into a neural network that does OCR and, using a multilingual lexicon, tags every kin term. Second, I’ll add a rule‑based layer that maps each term to its relative degree and checks against a taboo table for each culture you’re studying. When it spots a “cousin” that is off‑limits in that language, it will highlight the node and generate a warning flag. I’ll prototype a demo on your first batch of charts and we can tweak the thresholds if the false‑positive rate is too high.