Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-8505132-20150330083217/@comment-25396609-20160404161457

Yuri-Sensei wrote: Though this is just from my understanding, Winter mentioned only the Schnees can do the summoning but doesn't leave the fact that if the whole semblance of the family is passed down to the newer generation of their family or if only it is the summoning. "All Schnee can summon"

"Unlike most, our semblance is hereditary"

two separate statements, the first confirming summoning is a shared trait, and the second confirms the entire semblance is shared.