The pieces of your family story belong together.

Record the voices, keep the photographs, mark the places and the things — one private home for everything your family remembers.

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A hand holding a single faded snapshot, a warm room out of focus behind it

Photos have people.
Keep the memories of them in one place.

A photograph is only the beginning.

Keep the names, the relationships, the date and the story behind the pictures that matter most.

Dad’s 40th birthday, 1984

MarkSon
GrandmaMother
DadFather
LindaSister
AmyDaughter
Springfield, Illinois
16 June 1984

“Dad said 40 felt a lot like 30 — just with better cake.” — Linda

Right now your family’s story is in a shoebox, on three phones, and in people’s heads.

FamYarn gathers it into one private place the whole family can add to.

Start with one person. Then fill in the family when you’re ready.

People have stories.

Keep more than a name and a date.

Record the voice, the humor and the memories of the people behind the photographs.

An older woman laughing mid-sentence at a kitchen table in lamplight, a phone recording in front of her

Interview

Linda, on the summer of ’76

5:27

“We laughed the whole way home.”

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An instant photograph of a bride and groom under an umbrella on a rainy terraced street

Interview

Beatrice, on her wedding morning

3:41

“It poured all morning. Nobody cared.”

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A two-storey brick and clapboard family home on a quiet suburban street in late-afternoon light

Places hold more.

The places you’ve loved deserve to be remembered.

Homes, neighborhoods and gathering places hold the moments, big and small, that make up your family’s story.

The Carter family home

2847 S Maple Ave, Springfield, Illinois

Linda Carter14 memories here
Dad’s 40th birthday16 June 1984
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Your family’s data

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Everything it holds.

Voices. Photographs. Letters. Places. Heirlooms. Recipes. The whole family tree.

One archive, however your family remembers.

More than things.

The objects we keep hold the stories we cherish.

Record who owned what, how it was used and why it matters, so the meaning stays with your family.

A cream mixing bowl with orange flowers on a dark wooden table in a single shaft of light

Heirloom

Grandma Linda’s mixing bowl

Held by Anna Carter · in the family since 1976

She used it every Sunday, and it always meant something good was coming.

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A gold pocket watch and chain resting on folded linen in an open drawer of old letters

Heirloom

Samuel’s gold pocket watch

Brought from Lagos by Samuel

“Last seen in his coat pocket at my graduation.” — Kofi

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A man polishing a blue 1968 Mustang in a driveway on a summer morning

Heirloom

Big Blue, the 1968 Mustang

Arthur’s car · sold before David was born

“I still look for that shade of blue in every parking lot.” — David

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No genealogy experience required. Start with the people you already know.

Every family has a story. Let’s make sure it’s told.

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