# The Identities Module

The FIRM Guide (thefirmguide.com) — companion to The Recoverable Family.
Fill this in privately (any text editor or by hand), then store it in your Vault.


## Secure Guide Starter Template — Identities

> Store this inside your Vault. One entry per family member — update at the annual review, or whenever documents or primary accounts change.

This Module answers the trio's first question: who are we? It documents the credentials that establish personhood and enable everything else — the papers and the primary accounts. Children's entries grow with them: an infant's is a birth certificate and where it lives; a teenager's adds the emails that actually matter; at eighteen the entry becomes theirs — ask what they want kept in the family system, and respect the answer. If someone isn't comfortable being cataloged, record what you can (where a document lives, that a license exists) and leave the rest. Partial documentation is better than none.

Two habits make this record worth keeping. Accounts are rarely lost to a guessed password — they are lost through the recovery path, worked by a patient, convincing request. So map the chain (which account resets which), then harden it: retire recovery options that rest on guessable facts or on inboxes no one checks. And treat security-question answers like passwords — random, recorded in the password manager, never factual. A mother's maiden name is public; a deliberately wrong answer only the record knows is not.

- Person: 

- Government-Issued IDs: 

- Primary Email: 

- Secondary / Abandoned Emails: 

- Recovery Dependencies: 

- Physical Document Location: 

- Gaps / Expirations: 

- Last Reviewed: 

> These identities are the foundation of the connected trio. Next, the Subscriptions and Memberships Module ties each service to an identity documented here (reference it — don't re-enter it), and the Digital Legacy Module decides what happens to it all. See The Connected Trio page on this site for the worked example.

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## Family Guide Starter Template — Identities

> This template contains no sensitive information. It can be stored with household documents.

> In the matching Secure Guide section: one entry per person — IDs, controlling emails, recovery dependencies, document locations.
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> That detail is what makes recovery possible — and it is protected in the Vault, which opens with The Vault Key. The key is never written here, by design. The people listed on this page know how it is kept, and the steward's job is to keep that path current, so this page never leads to a locked door.

- What exists: 

- Where stored: 

- Who manages: 

- Who to call: 

> If a request for an identity document, a reset code, or a birthday arrives as a family member — by voice, message, or video — verify it the family way first: call back on a number already in this Guide, or use the family confirmation. A familiar voice is not, by itself, identity.

### Additional Guidance