Hand us the box of letters and old photographs.We give your family a place that will outlast all of us.
Upload your memoirs, hand-drawn trees, and certificates. Within weeks, a beautiful site lives at your-family.lineage.thegoodsite.co — with stories your grandchildren can read, a tree they can wander, and facts independently verified against free public archives.
Researched, not just published
We cross-reference every fact against FamilySearch, NARA, Chronicling America, and GeoNames — and tell you what we found, contradicted, or still can't prove.
Owned by you, forever
Your canonical data is exportable as JSON. Your site stays live as long as we exist. You can take everything with you.
Trusted by invitation
Only relatives you invite can contribute. Every fact has a chain of attribution. Vandalism is undone with one click.
A finished site, not a blank workspace.
Most genealogy products hand you a CMS and wish you luck. We deliver a built site, built with your documents, verified against public records, on your domain.
- Step 1 · Intake
Upload what you have
Memoir PDFs, photographs of hand-drawn trees, scanned certificates, interview notes. Whatever the family kept in the box.
- Step 2 · Extract
Claude reads every document
We pull out structured data: people, places, marriages, events, stories, document provenance. Everything cited back to the page it came from.
- Step 3 · Research
We query the free archives
FamilySearch, NARA, Chronicling America, GeoNames, HathiTrust — six billion records, no subscription fees passed to you.
- Step 4 · Refine
You answer what we can't
We send back a punch list: 'we can't verify X, can you confirm Y, do you have a photo of Z.' One question at a time.
- Step 5 · Publish
Your family site goes live
your-family.lineage.thegoodsite.co — or your own custom domain. Tree, timeline, stories, photographs, places, documents.
- Step 6 · Grow
Your relatives extend it
Invite the cousins. Each one fills in their branch. The site improves every year as new public records are released.
Eight free archives, queried automatically — for every person, place, and event in your family.
Our agent runs in the background after every intake. It finds the census record you didn't know existed, the newspaper notice from 1923, the headstone photograph volunteer-uploaded in 2019. Every finding cites its source.
See what the agent finds →- FamilySearch6B+ records. Vital, census, immigration, church.
- NARA CatalogUS Census 1790–1950, military, naturalization, ship manifests.
- Chronicling AmericaUS newspapers 1789–1963 — obituaries, wedding notices, accidents.
- GeoNamesModern coordinates for historical place names.
- HathiTrustOut-of-copyright county histories and published genealogies.
- BillionGravesCemetery photographs and headstone transcriptions.
- Internet ArchiveBooks, photographs, regional histories.
- WikiTreeCollaborative 30M+ profile global tree, cross-referenced.
Families already on Lineage.
Every fact has a name attached.
Lineage is verified-and-viral by design. You invite the first relatives. Each accepts by claiming who they are in the tree. Each can invite their own cousins, siblings, kids. Every contribution carries the chain back to you.
- SpearheadThe family member who commissions the site. Validated at onboarding by us.
- Validated membersInvited by you. Contribute to their branch with their name attached.
- Anonymous visitorsSee the public site. Submissions go to your moderation queue.
- Revocation powerMisuse? One click rolls back everything that member touched.
The longer you wait, the more you lose.
The aunt who knows the story is 86. The box of letters is in the attic. Start with whatever you have. We'll do the rest.