The most meaningful family stories often go unrecorded because creating the keepsakes preserving them requires time, skill and effort in collecting details, organizing memories, and maintaining an authentic voice—work that most people don’t have time for and well-intentioned DIY approaches rarely complete. My grandmother could describe exactly how the light looked coming through the kitchen…

With every family gathering, the familiar pattern emerges: the stories are slowly vanishing. Someone asks how your great-grandparents met, and you realize that no one remembers the details anymore. That cousin who could describe the old neighborhood and what it was like to live there before it changed. Your aunt, who knows why the family…