diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2f9f3bf..2d481b2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,3 +64,9 @@ julia> Expr(only(m.captures))
     `AbstractString` via constructors, index into the captures directly with `getindex`, or
     extract the indices in the original string that match the capture with
     `indices`.
+
+## Credits
+
+Lilith Hafner is the original author of this package. CodeSearch.jl would not exist without
+Claire Foster's [JuliaSyntax](https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaSyntax.jl/) which does all
+the parsing and provide appropriate data structures to represent parsed code.
diff --git a/docs/src/index.md b/docs/src/index.md
index 2284e89..d774076 100644
--- a/docs/src/index.md
+++ b/docs/src/index.md
@@ -126,3 +126,9 @@ julia> str = read("src/CodeSearch.jl", String);
 
 julia> node = parseall(SyntaxNode, str, ignore_errors=true);
 ```
+
+## Credits
+
+Lilith Hafner is the original author of this package. CodeSearch.jl would not exist without
+Claire Foster's [JuliaSyntax](https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaSyntax.jl/) which does all
+the parsing and provide appropriate data structures to represent parsed code.