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.
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We cross-reference every fact against FamilySearch, NARA, Chronicling America, and GeoNames — and tell you what we found, contradicted, or still can't prove.
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Only relatives you invite can contribute. Every fact has a chain of attribution. Vandalism is undone with one click.
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Type a family surname. We'll show a real sample of what the agent surfaces across the eight free archives we query for every Lineage family.
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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
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your-family.lineage.thegoodsite.co — or your own custom domain. Tree, timeline, stories, photographs, places, documents.
- Step 6 · Grow
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Invite the cousins. Each one fills in their branch. The site improves every year as new public records are released.
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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.
The instinct to preserve is older than the technology to do it well.
Every memoir, hand-drawn tree, and interview tape we receive opens with the same impulse. We didn't invent the urge. We built the tool that finally matches it.
"To print what I can remember about my life — it may be useful for some school history projects, or for your knowledge of our families."
"There is mention of a daughter who died as an infant. Herb thought she was born and buried in Germany, but Ella Marie said there was a girl's name on the family grave site at Grace Lawn cemetery in Elkhart."
"Dad built this house around 1908; our deed on the land indicates it was part of an area bought from a chief of the Potowatomi Indians, who actually signed the deed with his mark."
Families already on Lineage.
The Lorenz Family
Five generations of the Lorenz line, from Czaraholand in lower Bavaria through Elkhart, Indiana, to a B-24 over Norfolk and a chemistry bench at Union Carbide. Written by Jim Lorenz, December 1995.
The Hindman Family
Twelve generations from Deacon Edmund Rice of Stanstead Suffolk (b. 1594, Sudbury Mass. settler 1638) through Sudbury, Westborough, Conway and Pittsfield, with a Revolutionary War patriot (Joseph Rice, DAR #A095016) and a Nova Scotia chapter (Ebenezer Rice Jr.), then into the Hindman line at La Salle Illinois by the marriage of Barbara Frances Rice (London 1912) to Boyden William Hindman, the 1945 Syracuse birth of William John 'Bill' Hindman, and his son Brant. Built from a hand-drawn Rice family tree, the William John Hindman NY birth certificate, the 1858 Ward genealogy with 1967 Edmund Rice Association supplement, WikiTree, Find a Grave, and FamilySearch persistent records K4XQ-925 and KJLF-98T.
The Barnes & Blair Family
Five generations of the Barnes and Blair lines in Clay County and Macon County, Illinois, anchored on the marriage of Georgia Hope Blair (b. 1922, d. 1991) and Leland L. 'Bud' Barnes (b. 1922, d. 1982, WWII Coast Artillery Corps veteran with four Bronze Battle Stars from Normandy through Central Europe). The Blair line walks back through Garnet Othal Blair and Margaret Angeline Zink to Stephan Blair Sr. + Martha J. Walker. The Barnes line walks back through Ora J. 'Jay' Barnes and Bessie May Glasgow Barnes to James A. Barnes + Amanda Byrnes. Most of the family is buried at Iola Cemetery, Iola, Clay County, Illinois. Hope eventually remarried Robert Deister of Decatur and is buried at Graceland Cemetery, Decatur, alongside Robert and their daughter Jill.
The Loso / Arnholm Family
Three generations of central Vermont, anchored on Robert Fred Loso Sr. (Plainfield 1927, d. 2012) and Hope A. Arnholm Loso (Barre 1925, d. 2024), married at First Presbyterian Church of Barre on Hope's twenty-fifth birthday in 1950. Hope's father Charles Arthur Arnholm Sr. was born in Copenhagen Denmark in 1891; her maternal Trombly line is the anglicized French-Canadian Tremblay. Robert's Loso paternal line crosses Lake Champlain from Beekmantown New York, with the French-Canadian Beauval maiden name confirming its origin. The lineage descends through Kathie Loso MacInnes and Barry MacInnes to Kerrie MacInnes (partner of Jason Hindman), and to her daughter Pearl Hope Hindman, named for Hope. Built from Hope's 2024 obituary, Robert's 2012 Times Argus obituary preserved on Find a Grave, and thirteen Find a Grave memorials.
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.
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- Anonymous visitorsSee the public site. Submissions go to your moderation queue.
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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.
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