Record and preserve
priceless treasures.
How would you like to hear your grandmother or your parent speaking or laughing again? We record and preserve first-hand family stories in their own voices — then prepare video, audio, and print your family can keep.
More than a voice memo on a phone.
An oral history is only as valuable as it is findable, listenable, and shareable. We focus on all three.
Recorded interviews
Audio or video. Done in person, or over a video call if family is scattered. We can interview, or coach a family member to lead.
Accurate transcription
Every minute of audio becomes a searchable, readable transcript. Names, places, and dates double-checked against your tree.
Searchable stories
Excerpts and themes are pulled out — childhood, immigration, military service, first jobs — so the highlights aren't buried in a 2-hour file.
Optional written narrative
We can weave multiple interviews into a single written family story — readable in an afternoon, footnoted for any researcher who comes later.
From conversation to keepsake.
Most families wait too long. We try to make the first step as low-friction as possible — and the result something worth keeping.
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Plan the interview
We help you (or the interviewer) prepare thoughtful questions tailored to the person — childhood, work, places, family, the moments most worth saving.
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Record the conversation
Remote (video call) or in-person audio/video recording. Calm, unhurried, and friendly — never a deposition.
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Edit & transcribe
Light editing for clarity, accurate transcription, and timestamped excerpts so stories are easy to find.
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Preserve & share
Recordings and transcripts can live in a private family tree website, a downloadable archive, or an optional written narrative.
Send them to us — we'll preserve what you have.
Cassette tapes, mini-DVs, voicemails, old camcorder footage, a half-finished Zoom recording — we can clean it up, transcribe it, and turn it into something your family will actually use.
- Digitization of legacy formats (partner studio referrals)
- Audio noise reduction and gentle restoration
- Time-coded transcription
- Searchable, shareable family archive
- Quotes pulled out for use in a written narrative
From a real-ish transcript
“Your grandfather wouldn't talk about the war. Not ever. But he'd hum that song — the one in Italian — when he was peeling potatoes. That was him telling us.”
— Recorded with Margaret R., age 84, kitchen table, Tuesday afternoon.
Shirley remembers her first date with Ed.
Shirley recalled the joy of her first date with the man who became her husband. Preserving that recollection in her own voice and words is the point of the work. The finished piece can be video, audio, and print, and it can confirm names and dates as well as keep the story.
Watch the sample
Don't wait until the eulogy.
A recorded conversation now is worth more than any database entry later. Let's plan one.