A private family history workspace
Upload family documents and photographs, interview a family member, or write a memoir. MyFamilyHistorian helps uncover the people, events, and stories within them—and preserve what your family learns together.
New family archives are invitation or request only.
Inside a family letter
More than a stored file
“Your grandfather wrote that the old store stayed open through the flood…”
Three ways to begin
You do not need a completed family tree or a carefully organized archive. Begin with material, a conversation, or your own account.
The easiest place to start
Add documents, letters, photographs, recordings, and family writing. MyFamilyHistorian helps transcribe and organize them, identify what they contain, and surface stories and questions worth exploring.
Prepare thoughtful questions from scratch or from your archive, record the conversation, and preserve it as searchable family history.
Write what you remember in your own words, privately at first, and connect it with the people, places, and family materials around it.
What happens after upload
The original material stays at the center. MyFamilyHistorian helps make its contents searchable, understandable, and useful for interviews and stories without pretending uncertainty has disappeared.
Keep the original document, photograph, recording, or piece of writing in the family archive.
Transcribe text and identify the people, dates, places, and events the material mentions.
Follow connections across materials and see questions, gaps, and possible stories with their sources attached.
Use what you find to prepare interviews, write memoirs, and develop family histories that can endure.
Access is controlled by invitation. Family materials, interview recordings, and memoir drafts are not made public merely because they were added to the archive.
People and relationships provide context. The purpose is to preserve lived experience, understand family materials, and create histories worth passing on.
Tell us what you hope to preserve or explore. New archives are reviewed personally.