Your grandmother has one birth certificate. Four grandchildren applying separately order it four times, wait four times, and pay for it four times. One family case orders it once.
The Family Plan
They made the crossing once.
You don't have to make the way back alone.
One ancestor anchors the case. One set of records serves everyone who descends from them. Your whole family submits in the same wave — instead of four people separately solving the same puzzle, ordering the same certificates, and getting four different answers.
How a family case works
One ancestor. One set of records. One wave.
Every program we support works this way — the shared spine of your family's claim is built once.
Everyone descending from the same ancestor needs the same records for the shared generations. Only the last leg differs.
Every record has a named owner and a date, so nobody duplicates work and nobody assumes someone else has it handled.
A Heritage Passport member invites relatives into the Family Room, and each relative claims their place without a card. They have 7 days from the member's purchase to join, and each adult can choose Heritage Passport for their own case when they're ready.
The Family Progress Dashboard
Your family sees your progress. Never your documents.
It stays for the life of your case, and it is enforced on the server — not hidden in the interface.
Visible
Your family can see
- Your name
- Your status
- Your expected dates
- Shared costs
Never visible
Your family can never see
- Your document images
- Your ID numbers
- Your date of birth
- Your personal costs
- Your private notes
Guided family work
Move through your family case with Heritage Circle.
Heritage Circle brings your shared case work into a live four-week course. Your Family Room and shared records remain yours throughout.