Preserve their story
Plant their tree while they can still tell you their story.
One day, someone in your family will ask where they came from, what they endured, what made them laugh, and how they became the person you loved. Preserve those answers while you still can.
Living Legacy
While they can still tell you themselves.
Dedicate a tree to a parent, grandparent, spouse, sibling, mentor, or anyone whose story your family does not want to lose. After the dedication is confirmed, we invite them by email or text to answer as much or as little as they wish.
Honored while their story is still being written.
Memorial Legacy
Preserve What Remains.
For someone who has already passed, relatives gather what remains together: known facts, letters, photographs, documents, existing recordings, and the stories other relatives still carry. Every contribution records where it came from.
We cannot recover every story that was never told. But together, we can protect the ones that remain.
The Questions We Wish We Had Asked
One question at a time. Never a form.
Large text, plain instructions, one question on the screen, speaking instead of typing, English or Italian, save and come back whenever you like. Any question can be skipped and anyone can stop taking part at any time.
- Where were you born, and what was the house like?
- What did your parents do each day?
- What is the first thing you remember?
- How did you meet the person you married?
- What work did you do, and what were you proud of?
- What did your family cook on a Sunday?
- What did you carry with you when you left home?
- What would you want your grandchildren to know?
Explore more questions
Childhood
- What did your childhood home look like?
- What did your mother call you when you were little?
- What did you dream about when you were twelve?
- What game did you play when there was nothing to play with?
Parents and grandparents
- What did your father do that you never forgot?
- What do you remember about your grandparents?
- Who taught you how to work?
- What did your parents worry about?
Brothers and sisters
- Who were you closest to growing up?
- What did the house sound like when everyone was home?
First home
- Where was the first home you remember?
- What was cooking in that kitchen?
School years
- How far did you have to go to get to school?
- Was there a teacher you still think about?
First job
- What was the first job you ever had?
- What was the first thing you bought with money you earned yourself?
Military service
- If you served, where were you sent?
- What do you remember most about that time?
Immigration
- What did you leave behind when you started a new life?
- What frightened you most when you arrived somewhere unfamiliar?
- Who helped you when you needed it?
- When did the new place start to feel like home?
Falling in love
- How did you meet?
- What did you notice first?
Marriage
- What was your wedding day like?
- What did you learn about staying together?
Becoming a parent
- What do you remember about the first time you became a parent?
- What did you hope for your children?
Work and sacrifice
- What sacrifice did you make that your children may not know about?
- What work are you proudest of?
Faith and traditions
- What did your family do every year without fail?
- What did faith or Sunday look like in your home?
Family recipes
- What dish should stay in this family forever?
- How did you make it? Please say it the way you would say it in the kitchen.
Hardest moments
- What was a hard season you came through?
- Who stood beside you then?
Happiest memories
- When were you proudest of your family?
- What is a day you would live again exactly as it was?
Lessons learned
- What did life teach you that you would tell a young person?
- What family tradition should never disappear?
Hopes for future generations
- What do you hope your grandchildren remember?
- What would you want someone born fifty years from now to know about you?
We do not ask manipulative questions and we never press anyone to describe trauma.
See it working
A short demonstration.
Everything below is a demonstration, not a real family record. The complete demonstration Legacy Page shows the same parts assembled together.
Recording a memory
One question appears, a large record button starts and stops, and the recording is saved with the question beside it. Nothing is published until the family approves it.
Demonstration question
What is the first thing you remember?
A life timeline
- 1934 Born in a mountain village in southern Italy.
- 1952 Began driving the milk route before dawn.
- 1966 Arrived in New York with one suitcase.
- 1972 Bought the family farm back home.
A family tree
- Maria is the mother of Giuseppe.
- Giuseppe is the husband of Rosa.
- Rosa is the grandmother of Anna.
Two relatives must agree before a name is searchable in public.
The Memory Keeper
A helper, never a substitute.
The Memory Keeper helps you organize the real words your family has recorded. It arranges what you have written and said into a readable story. It never invents memories, never fills gaps with guesses, and never writes in the voice of someone who has died.
- The Memory Keeper organises what your family has already written or recorded.
- It never invents a date, a place, a relationship, or a feeling.
- It never writes as, or pretends to be, the person honoured.
- Your family's material is never used for advertising or to train AI systems.
What a family can preserve
Everything that usually disappears.
Who is in the photographs
Names, relationships, places and dates given by the person who was there. Identities are never guessed, and anything uncertain is marked Possibly or Not yet confirmed.
The things they passed down
Recipes in their own words, traditions, family sayings, dialect, and the stories behind heirlooms. Original language recordings sit beside the approved translation.
Family tree and relationships
Built while someone can still identify everybody. Confirmed facts, family recollections, and uncertain details always look different from each other.
Messages for future generations
A message for a grandchild, or an explanation of why this olive tree matters. The person recording decides who may open each message, and when.
The Legacy Page behind the plaque
An olive tree can carry a name for generations. Its digital legacy can carry the life behind that name.
- Their Own Words
- Family Memories
- Confirmed Life Events
- Family Traditions
- Their Journey
- Family Tree
- Photographs
- Messages for Future Generations
- The Olive Tree Dedicated in Their Name
Every living legacy is private by default. Publishing a photograph, a recording, or a detail about another living person requires their consent, and children's information stays protected.
A worked example
Exactly what a family can edit and download.
A Living Legacy and a Memorial Legacy share the same page. These are the fields your family fills in, and the files you can take with you at any time.
The person
- Full name, and the name they were called at home
- Years of birth and, where it applies, of death
- Hometown, region, and the places that mattered
- Relationship to your family
- Occupation, service, and the work they were proud of
Their story
- A written biography, organized from your family's own words
- Guided interview answers, typed or recorded in their voice
- A life timeline of dated moments
- Traditions, sayings, recipes, and values
- The migration journey, with map pins for each place
What your family adds
- Photographs with captions, dates, and the names of the people in them
- Voice recordings and short audio memories
- A family tree of relatives and how they connect
- Letters written to be read in the future
- Who may view, contribute, edit, or download
What you can download and keep
- The full written biography as an accessible PDF
- Every photograph at the size it was uploaded
- Every audio recording as an original file
- The interview answers, timeline, and family tree as readable documents
- The plaque proof and the QR artwork for the tree
- The dedication certificate with the Tree ID
The archive downloads as ordinary files, readable without our website, so your family keeps the story whatever happens to us.
The demonstration page uses invented details and conceptual grove photographs. It is a worked example, not an actual dedication.
Shared legacy pages
Stories families chose to share
Founding family stories will appear here only when families choose to share them.
Loading the shared pages.
Yours to keep
Download and Preserve Their Story
Their story belongs to your family. Keep it, share it, and pass it on. Download a single photograph or recording, or the whole approved archive as a ZIP file organised into clearly labelled folders.
- 01 - Biography
- 02 - Photographs
- 03 - Voice Recordings
- 04 - Video Memories
- 05 - Family Tree
- 06 - Family Timeline
- 07 - Immigration Story
- 08 - Family Memories
- 09 - Recipes and Traditions
- 10 - Letters and Future Messages
- 11 - Tree Photographs and Updates
- 12 - Dedication Certificate and Plaque
- 13 - QR Code and Tree Information
- 14 - Transcripts and Translations
- 15 - Source Records and Family Documents