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Choose the person
Start with one living storyteller, or build a memorial edition around one person who has died.
Before the stories are lost
A life, kept in their own words.
Record the voice, gather the photographs, and shape everything together into a book your family can hold.
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From source to finished book
A clear process families can actually finish.
The work no longer disappears into a generic “draft.” Every project shows its next step—from source review and chapter planning through editing, cover design, proofing, and publication.
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Gather the source
Record private sessions or upload interviews, journals, letters, photographs, recipes, and family recollections.
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Review before writing
Correct transcripts, approve usable material, and see how every source fits the planned chapters.
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Edit a real book
Shape the manuscript, place photographs, design the cover, approve the proof, and order the hardcover.
Two honest starting points
The workflow changes depending on who can tell the story.
A living person speaks for their own life. A memorial book is reconstructed carefully from the records and people who remain.
Living storyteller
Their account is the center of the book.
Private recording sessions and organizer-reviewed transcript refinements become the canonical narrative. Family members contribute named memories around it without rewriting the storyteller’s account.
- 01Record in short, comfortable sessions
- 02Review the transcript before it becomes prose
- 03Add family vignettes beside related chapters
Deceased loved one
Build from the evidence they left behind.
The project asks for journals, letters, existing recordings, photographs, records, and interviews with family—not an invitation for the person who has died to answer questions.
- 01Upload and organize archival material
- 02Interview relatives about specific scenes and periods
- 03Keep every passage connected to its source
A true book workspace
Edit the manuscript like a book, not a form.
See page boundaries and chapters while you work. Type directly, add new passages, bring in approved family material, place photographs between paragraphs, and see page count change with the layout.
- Direct manuscript editing
- Images anywhere in the flow
- Approved quotes with attribution
- 7 × 10 or 8.5 × 11 layouts
- Cover and spine designer
- Print warnings before approval
Book editor · revision 4
The Life and Stories of Rosa
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A shared memory
Sunday at the long table
There was always room for one more chair. The meal started before anyone was ready and ended long after the plates had been cleared.
Family photograph
Recipe card
“The sound I remember is everyone talking at once.”
Daniel · grandson · edited for book
Standard density7 × 10 portrait126 interior pages
Rosa’s story tree
Drag to explore · select a connector to edit
Book centerRRRosaStoryteller · 14 sources
LRLuciaDaughter · co-organizer
DRDanielSon · contributor
Parents · children · siblings · spouses · former spouses
One person, surrounded by family
A family tree with a publishing purpose.
The Atlas keeps the storyteller visibly at the center while mapping parents, children, siblings, spouses, and former spouses. Add people from the tree, correct relationships manually, and invite the right relative for the right chapter.
Organize together
Siblings and a parent can edit, review, and invite contributors as co-organizers.
One billing owner
One primary owner keeps control of payments, membership, team access, and book orders.
Family voices stay named
Approved memories become attributed vignettes or a Stories We Carry chapter.
Branches stay private
A shared tree never opens another branch’s recordings, drafts, or private notes.
The family content library
Everything useful is ready when the editor needs it.
Search reviewed recordings, corrected transcripts, family memories, reader suggestions, documents, recipes, and photographs without loading the entire archive at once.
The Family Guide can help someone find their way around the software, locate grounded archive material, and prepare an invitation. It does not impersonate a deceased relative.
Search “Sunday dinner” across approved sources
All materialRecordingsFamily storiesDocumentsPhotos
Sunday dinners at Grandma’sRosa · storyteller recording · 18:42
ApprovedThe seat beside the windowLucia · daughter · family vignette
Print consentHandwritten recipe cardArchival document · family owned
Chapter 8The long dining tablePhotograph · 1968 · 600 DPI
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Voice behind the page
Scan the printed QR code to hear the approved original source.
Authentic and family-owned
The polished book never replaces the source.
The archive preserves what was recorded, what was edited for the book, who contributed it, and what the family approved. Published editions remain fixed while the private library keeps growing.
Original media
Recordings and timestamps remain connected to the manuscript.
Reviewed sources
Unreviewed, excluded, and private-held material stays out of the book.
Family Archive Pack
Export sources, transcripts, metadata, relationships, and published files.
Fixed editions
Reproduce the exact approved book without changing its published snapshot.
One archive, many editions
The first book is the beginning—not a reset.
Reuse approved family material for another parent’s life story, a recipe collection, memorial, reunion book, family branch, or annual edition.
EDITION 01
A life in stories
One person · a complete life story
EDITION 02
From our family table
Recipes · traditions · photographs
EDITION 03
The Rivera family
Family branch · four generations
EDITION 04
The year we gathered
Reunion edition · many short voices
Assisted-pilot offer
Begin with one book. Keep the family library working.
Family Library + First Edition
The complete guided path to the first family book.
$149first year
- One storyteller-led book project
- A private workspace for the organizing family
- Unlimited free family contributors
- Voice, video, text, photographs, journals, recipes, and letters
- A guided manuscript editor, cover designer, and print proof
- One full-color 7 × 10 casewrap hardcover up to 150 pages
- Downloadable sources and Family Archive Pack
- The first year of Family Library membership
$79/year
Keep the library growing
Continue new capture, uploads, invitations, AI work, and archive growth for the family branch.
$99
Start another book
While the branch is active, create a new storyteller or edition after payment. One printed copy is included.
from $59
Order another copy
Reorder an identical approved edition without reopening the manuscript.
Human help when the story matters most
Software for the workflow. A real person for the hard parts.
Guided Interview
$249A facilitated 90-minute conversation, transcript, and edited story draft.
Heirloom Studio
$999Three interviews, up to 40 archival items organized, editorial and design review, and three books.