Turn your family tree into a beautifully published book you can hold in your hands.

The world's first genealogy publishing studio — for both new and seasoned genealogists.
Professional genealogy publishing, reimagined.

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Easy to use

Designed for simplicity — powerful tools that feel natural

Beautiful results

Print‑ready pages every time — professional layouts without effort

Your legacy

Preserve your family's story for generations

The difference a book makes

You've done the research. So, where's the book?

An ancestry that lives inside a website isn't a legacy. It's a database. And nobody has ever gathered the family around a database.

A genealogist at his desk at 3 a.m., holding a flash drive labeled McDonald Family 1648–2026
The Descendants of John McDonald — the same family, bound as a book

Because your family history deserves more than storage

Inside the studio

Everything your publishing projects will ever need

Every GEDCOM, every client, every report — from import to published book, all in one seamless workflow.

Register Canvas

Generate a properly numbered Register, NGSQ, or Ahnentafel narrative from your GEDCOM — entries, child lists, and indexes, done right.

Keepsake Canvas

A full design canvas for the pages that deserve ceremony — profiles, fan charts, timelines, photo spreads, and whole designed books, decorated your way.

Heritage Storyteller

Turn rough notes and handwritten stories into polished, print-worthy prose. It elevates your own words — and never invents facts.

End-to-end publishing tools

From GEDCOM import to the finished volume — charts, maps, reports, covers, and professional printing to your door, with no setup fees, ever. Every step lives in one studio.

Full source and citation support

Every fact keeps its sources. Citations ride with each person, fully editable in place, and print as proper numbered notes with professional citation typography.

Heritage editing and layout controls

Edit the typeset book itself — every person, paragraph, and page, live on screen — with full command of trim size, margins, gutter, and type. The book reflows as you work.

A walk through the studio

Glimpse inside the studio's workflow

The Register Canvas

Upload your GEDCOM and a complete, properly numbered book appears — Register, NGSQ, or Ahnentafel numbering, child lists, sources, and indexes, typeset to genealogical publishing standards. Then edit anything: every person, every paragraph, every page, live on the screen.

The Book card's Numbering menu — Register (NEHGS), NGSQ, Henry, d'Aboville, Ahnentafel, Modified Ahnentafel, and Outline numberingThe Book card's Prose style menu — Standards-Compliant, Modern, Academic, or Narrative prose for the whole bookThe Register Canvas — The Descendants of John Johnson open at the First Generation, with the Tree Settings card in useThe Formatting card — bold entry numbers, small-caps names, justified text, and lineage line options, changing the typeset book liveThe Facts included card — choosing which life facts appear in the book, from baptism and burial to military service and religionThe Chapter titles card — renaming the book's generation chapters, with the table of contents following alongThe Name Index — every person in the book indexed by surname, with page numbers derived from the typeset pagesA person's Vital Facts card open over the book — name, birth, and christening editable in place, with the page reflowing as you saveA person's Media card — their photographs, documents, and records gathered in one gallery, ready to place in the bookA person's Sources card — the citations from your file, editable in place, with a cite button on every factA second book from the same tree — the Progenitor card set to William Johnson (1844–1926), his photograph in place, and a 43-page book of his descendants typeset with numbered citations on every fact

The Keepsake Canvas

A full design canvas for the pages that deserve ceremony — fan charts, family group sheets, photo spreads, and decorated pages, arranged your way with backgrounds, frames, and your own photographs from the Media Vault.

A built book's Generation One title page — the ancestor's name and years, quietly setThe Book templates card — The Direct Lineage in the Classic design, with a family ancestor profile on the canvasThe same book in Colonial blue — a timeline page walking John Johnson's years, 1588 to 1659The Atelier design in Olive & tan — the same family profile, dressed in the modern voice on a cream sheetAn Atelier timeline in Spruce & copper — one book, recolored without rebuildingThe Gallery design in Greige — giant ghost words behind the family profileA Gallery timeline in Stone blue — the same pages, another voiceThe Life-of page every ancestor gets — reserved for their story, in your own words or the Storyteller'sThe Media Vault open over the book — photographs, documents, and John Johnson's own signature among the saved itemsThe signature placed beneath the title, and a Storyteller chapter set into the book in two columns of EB GaramondThe Reports card building an Ancestor Fan — five generations rising from Samuel James Johnson Jr., on the Sage tree dressThe Embellishments shelf — title blocks, banners, and ornate frames, ready to size, color, flip, and fadeThe Corners shelf — dozens of drawn corner ornaments, sharp at any size on screen and in printThe text tools — typography, size, leading, alignment, arch, and ink swatches on a selected lineA selected image with the print check — About 1091 DPI at this size, sharp for print — plus fit, frame, tone, and shadow controlsThe Johnson Line — eleven generations traced on one designed line-map pageThe book's own name index — every person filed by surname with page numbers, refreshed with one Update index button

The Heritage Storyteller

Your ancestors were more than dates. The Storyteller reads the facts you've gathered — the records, the places, the family you've documented — and writes them into warm, historically grounded chapters, in a voice you choose. It never invents; it tells what you found, beautifully.

The Writing Room's Record — the protagonist's whole household laid out as a fact sheet: John Johnson, his three wives, and every child with their dates and placesThe Shoebox — 18,684 words of the author's own research notes and transcribed records saved with the chapter, ready for the Storyteller to draw onThe Epigraph card — a George Eliot quotation set to open the chapterThe Prose style card — five voices to write the chapter in, from Historian to Spare & Plainspoken, each with a sample line, and the cost shown before anything is writtenThe Canvas — the written chapter, 4,520 words in the Historian voice, open for editing with bold, italic, and quote stylingThe Book — the same chapter typeset: chapter opening, epigraph, the ancestor's own signature, and a drop cap, ready to publishThe Name Index — built by the author: highlight a name in the book, right-click, and it files itself with page numbersThe Type & page card — typography, page size, margins, and the binding gutter, with the recommended setting shown for the book's page count

The Report · Chart Generator

Pick a person, pick a report — family group sheets, timelines, kinship summaries, the Ancestor and Fan Charts, and the Migration Report, with your ancestors' journeys pinned on a real map. Every one a polished, printable deliverable — a single sheet, or a page in your book.

Printed, bound, delivered

When the book is ready, order it without leaving the studio — paperback, hardcover, or clothbound linen with a foil-stamped spine — professionally printed and shipped to your door. Or export a press-ready PDF and print anywhere you like.

Why Heritage Studio

Genealogy publishing froze twenty years ago. We built the modern press.

For twenty years, the software that prints family‑history books has barely changed. Most of it still looks like something from the 90s — outdated interfaces, cluttered workspaces, and pages that read like database printouts. And while the big online tree sites are wonderful for research, they were never built to make a book.

Heritage Studio is different by design.It lives on the web, so it works wherever you do. It's built for efficiency, not endless menu‑diving or forms full of options no one understands. You can customize and refine your work with the touch of a button. It typesets real books — the kind genealogical societies publish — not reports. It can tell your family's story in written chapters, not just charts. And it ends with a beautifully bound book you can give to clients or share with your family, not a database.

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