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

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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 a database

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

Upload your GEDCOM and a properly numbered book appears — Register, NGSQ, and more, complete with child lists, sources, and indexes. Then customize freely: Heritage Storyteller chapters, your own photographs, stories, and documents.

Keepsake Canvas

Some pages deserve ceremony. Start from editable templates or build from scratch — fan charts, ancestor profiles, photo spreads — and design every page with ready-made frames, corners, and flourishes, or import your own.

Heritage Storyteller

Your ancestors were more than dates, places, and events. Heritage Storyteller turns your facts into biographies that tell a story — in the voice you choose — never invented, and fully yours to edit.

End-to-end publishing tools

We never leave you holding an unusable file. Every book comes out publisher-ready — proper margins, binding gutters, true typesetting — or let us print it and deliver it to your door. No setup fees, ever.

Full source and citation support

You spent years getting the sources right — they belong in the book. Every citation rides with its fact, edits in place, and prints as proper numbered notes with a full bibliography, the way scholarship should look.

Heritage editing and layout controls

Other software hands you a frozen export. Here, the typeset book itself is editable — every person, paragraph, and page, live on screen — with 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 properly numbered book appears — Register, NGSQ, and more, complete with child lists, sources, and indexes. Then customize freely: Heritage Storyteller chapters, your own photographs, stories, and documents.

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 bookA 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

1 of 11Choose your numbering style — Register, NGSQ, Henry, d’Aboville, Ahnentafel, and more, applied instantly across your entire book.

The Keepsake Canvas

Some pages deserve ceremony. Start from editable templates or build from scratch — fan charts, ancestor profiles, photo spreads — and design every page with ready-made frames, corners, and flourishes, or import your own.

The Johnson Line — eleven generations traced on one designed line-map pageA built book's Part title page — The Johnsons, 1588–2019, twelve generations from England to Langhorne, set over a faded tall-ships embellishmentThe book's own name index — every person filed by surname with page numbers, refreshed with one Update index button

1 of 19Start with a generational summary — every template opens with a clean overview of your direct-line generations.

The Heritage Storyteller

Your ancestors were more than dates, places, and events. Heritage Storyteller turns your facts into biographies that tell a story — in the voice you choose — never invented, and fully yours to edit.

The Writing Desk'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 Heritage Storyteller to draw onThe Type & page card — typography, page size, margins, and the binding gutter, with the recommended setting shown for the book's page count

1 of 8Set up your chapter — name your chapter, choose a GEDCOM generation, pick a protagonist, and Heritage Storyteller automatically imports their immediate family into The Record.

The Report · Chart Generator

Generate any report you need — choose an individual and instantly produce family group sheets, timelines, kinship summaries, ancestor charts, fan charts, or migration maps. Each report is print-ready, whether you need a standalone sheet or a page in your book.

The Family Group Sheet — a couple, their vitals, and their children, with the Formatting card offering Modern or Classic styleThe Facts included card — choosing which life facts the sheet carries, from christening and occupation to immigration and naturalizationThe research tools — Missing Vitals checks every record still missing, for immediate family, extended, or all relatives

1 of 10Choose your Family Group Sheet format — select the layout you prefer, Modern or Classic, and The Report Generator instantly builds a clean, structured Family Group Sheet for your focus person.

Printed, bound, delivered

Heritage Press — 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.

The finished book on the canvas — 219 typeset pages, the First Generation open at John Johnson's own signature, and the dark Publish your book button waiting at the rail's footThe Type & page card — print-and-binding page sizes from 6×9 to A4 and 9×7 landscape, with the recommended binding gutter shown for the book's page countThe order taking shape — the printer accepted the 222-page file, hardcover case wrap on cream paper, and the book's price on the screen before anything is ordered

1 of 9Order your finished book right inside Heritage 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. Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook — Heritage Studio works on all of them. With Heritage Studio, there is nothing to install, nothing to update, and you're never tied to one machine or one operating system. 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.

Built for the serious genealogist.

Nine numbering systems. Every citation. Full indexes. Heritage Studio offers strict standards‑compliance, or customization to your personal taste.

  • Numbering systems — Register (NEHGS), NGSQ (National Genealogical Society Quarterly), Henry (modified), Henry (original 1935), d’Aboville, d’Aboville (modified), Ahnentafel, Ahnentafel (modified), and Outline.
  • Citations — every source travels with its fact, prints as a proper numbered note, and carries through to a full bibliography.
  • Indexes — every person, every place, generated and page‑accurate.
  • Society submission — the Register Canvas writes a three‑generation article into NEHGS's own Register manuscript template, their styles and their footnotes, ready to send.
  • Print — Heritage Press prints the finished book, hardcover or paperback, priced per copy with no setup fee, and ships it to your door.

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