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The story behind the old photograph
Who took it? Where were they standing? What year was it? A single image can become a doorway into names, places, and half-remembered details.
Photos Oral history Questions
Recent stories
These are sample posts for the first draft. Replace them with real family stories, memories, and photos as they come in.
Recipe notes
A dish that shows up at every gathering
Write the recipe, but also the person attached to it: who made it, who taught them, and what changed over time.
FoodTraditions
Places
Homes, streets, towns, and border crossings
A simple map of places can become a timeline of the family: where people lived, worked, visited, left, and returned.
PlacesTimeline
Interview prompt
Five questions for the next phone call
What did your childhood home smell like? Who made you laugh? What did adults never explain? What song do you remember?
InterviewPrompts
Archive structure
A simple starting organization for when the site begins collecting real posts and materials.
By type
- Stories and essays
- Photographs and captions
- Recipes and traditions
- Letters, documents, and records
- Interview notes and audio summaries
By family thread
- People and short biographies
- Places lived and visited
- Timeline by decade
- Unanswered questions
- Sources to verify later
How to add material
Send a note, photo, correction, or memory.
For now, revisions can happen by email: send photos, names, dates, paragraphs, or even rough voice-note transcriptions. The site can be updated from there.
Good first prompt: “Here is a person I want a page for. Here are three facts and one photo.”