A family tree tells you who is connected to whom: parents, siblings, grandparents, generations branching outward.

What it can't show is what life felt like inside those connections.

It can't capture:

• •The way your grandmother laughed before she told a story
• •The prank your uncle pulled at your parents' wedding
• •The smell of a kitchen that always meant you were home
• •The sibling who always showed up when things fell apart

Those details don't live in boxes and lines. They live in photos, recordings, letters, and half-remembered stories passed between people.

Dates matter. Names matter. Without them, memory drifts.

But on their own, they're only coordinates.

A birth year doesn't tell you why a family moved across the country. A marriage date doesn't explain what the relationship was like.

Two people can share the same family tree and carry entirely different memories of the same events. A tree gives us orientation, but meaning comes from context.

Family trees often point backward. But families don't stop evolving.

They stretch, recombine, and grow in ways that are deeply human:

• Blended families
• Adoption and fostering
• Chosen family
• Relationships that matter as much as blood ties

Family history isn't just something that happened then. It's something that's still happening now.

The photos on your phone, the videos of first steps, the voice notes saved after a long conversation — these are future history in the making.

What people cherish most, years later, is rarely a fact. It's a feeling.

The sound of someone's voice. The way they told the same story every holiday. The ridiculous argument everyone still laughs about. The note tucked into the back of a photo.

Without a place to keep these things together, memory thins. Photos lose their stories. Stories lose their details. And eventually, meaning fades.

In many families, one person quietly becomes the keeper of history — the one with the photos, the documents, the answers.

That care is generous, but it's also fragile.

When family history lives in one inbox, one hard drive, or one filing system, it becomes hard to access, hard to add to, and easy to lose. Shared history needs a shared home — one that invites contribution rather than guarding it.

We love a family tree. And we want to take it further.

Heritable was built to hold what family trees can't: the photos, videos, documents, and stories that give structure its meaning.

It's a place where:

• ✓Your family tree provides orientation
• ✓Your memories add depth and texture
• ✓Stories live alongside names and dates
• ✓More than one person can help carry the history

You don't need to have everything figured out. If you have a few photos on your phone, a story you don't want to forget, or a voice you wish you could hold onto — you already have enough to begin.