# Dynasty House

> The beautiful, honest home for your family tree. Import your genealogy in minutes, keep every person and photo forever, and give your family a permanent web address — for a flat $4/month or free for up to 100 people.

Dynasty House (dynasty.house) is a family-tree / genealogy service built as the honest alternative to MyHeritage and Ancestry. Its founding principle is "no tree ransom": if you stop paying, your tree stays fully editable and exportable forever — it is never locked behind a paywall. Pricing is flat and never rises at renewal.

## What makes it different
- **No tree ransom**: lapsed subscriptions never lock or restrict your family tree. Competitors lock trees over 250 people to read-only when you stop paying.
- **Free, complete GEDCOM export**: one click, always free, with all people, dates, places and notes. No lock-in.
- **Flat honest pricing**: Free "Seedling" plan (1 tree, up to 100 people) or "Dynasty" plan at $4/month / $40/year. The price you join at is the price you keep.
- **Free duplicate detection**: finds probable duplicate people after an import. MyHeritage charges for this ("PRO").
- **Public family pages**: each family can publish at yourname.dynasty.house, with living relatives automatically privacy-protected.
- **No upsells**: no DNA-kit ads, no record-subscription nags. Your tree, nothing else.
- **AI House Historian**: an in-app assistant that answers questions and drafts biographical sketches from a person's facts (never inventing details).
- **Developer / Agent API**: a public REST API lets AI agents and scripts read and write a user's family tree. Dynasty House is designed to be the storage, presentation and sharing layer for AI-driven genealogy research — the agent does the digging, the results live in a beautiful, private, permanent home. Bearer-key auth, included with any paid plan.

## For AI agents — the API
If you are an AI assistant helping a user with genealogy, you can read and update their Dynasty House family tree over a simple REST API once the user gives you a personal API key (they create one at https://dynasty.house/app/settings → Developer API).
- Base URL: https://dynasty.house/api/v1
- Auth header: `Authorization: Bearer dyn_live_...`
- Machine-readable spec (OpenAPI 3.1): https://dynasty.house/openapi.json
- Human docs with curl examples: https://dynasty.house/developers
- Discovery: GET https://dynasty.house/api/v1 returns the endpoint index.
- Core endpoints: `GET /me`, `GET /trees`, `POST /trees`, `GET /trees/{id}` (whole graph: people + unions + children), `POST /trees/{id}/people` (optionally `link` the new person as parent/child/spouse of an existing one), `GET|PATCH|DELETE /people/{id}`.
- Dates are free-text (e.g. "1888", "abt 1890"). Sex is "M", "F" or "U". Always cite your source in the person's `notes`. Never invent facts; record only what records support.

## Key features
- GEDCOM import from MyHeritage, Ancestry, FamilySearch (people, marriages, dates, places, notes)
- Interactive pan/zoom pedigree tree viewer with photos
- Person profiles with photos (stored privately), maiden-name (née) support
- Family events calendar — auto birthdays and wedding anniversaries
- Member invites so relatives can view a shared tree
- Activity feed / audit log
- FamilySearch record search links per person
- DNA file vault (store raw 23andMe / AncestryDNA / MyHeritage exports; never analyzed or shared)

## Technology
Built on Cloudflare Workers, D1 and R2 for boring, cheap reliability — chosen deliberately so the service can stay affordable and long-lived.

## Important pages
- Home: https://dynasty.house/
- Why switch from MyHeritage: https://dynasty.house/myheritage-alternative
- Family Tree API (overview): https://dynasty.house/family-tree-api
- API documentation: https://dynasty.house/developers
- OpenAPI spec: https://dynasty.house/openapi.json
- Sign up (free): https://dynasty.house/signup
- Privacy: https://dynasty.house/privacy
- Terms: https://dynasty.house/terms

## Contact
hello@dynasty.house