Your private family archive
Your family’s
memories.
Kept together.
A private place for your family’s photos, home videos and the stories behind them.
Add the memories you have. Invite the people who remember.
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Old family albums. Home movies. Photos from today.
One private place, for all of you.01 / Your family archive
The photographs.
The people who remember.
Start with a photograph. Keep its story, hear from your family and find the people and occasions connected to it.
Start with the photographs you have.
Choose photos and home videos from your device. Memrial keeps the original files, ready to view and download.
A scanned print, a phone photo or a digitised tape can all go in the same archive.
Someone remembers who took it.
Open a photograph and ask your family. A relative can add a name, remember the occasion or tell you something you never knew.
The photograph, its details and the replies stay together.
Go back to the years you remember.
Find the wedding, the childhood holidays and the home videos from when everyone was younger. See dated memories in order, or follow one person through the years.
Use an exact date, a year or the best approximate date you know.
Know the people in the photographs.
Connect parents, partners, children and grandparents. Open a person to see their place in the family and the memories they appear in.
Family Tree is included on every plan. Relatives can have a profile without an account.
02 / Traditions
The family recipes.
Their own instructions.
The Sunday lunch everyone remembers. A recipe, a story or a family custom, kept with the people who shared it.
Keep the recipe as they made it.
Save the ingredients, the method and the little details they always remembered. Relatives can add their own words, photographs, video or a voice recording.
Traditions is included on every membership. Drafts stay private until published.
Keep each generation’s version.
Add your version, a family occasion or a memory from that year. Keep the photographs and stories together, with the person who shared them.
Add recurring occasions to the family calendar. Reminders are optional.
03 / Family Films Limited preview
Family photographs.
With familiar voices.
Arrange photos and home videos into a film. Add music, a family recording and the words you want beside each memory.
Make a film from the memories you choose.
Choose photographs and home videos, put them in order and add a relative’s voice. Your original files stay in the archive.
Family Films is in a limited preview and is not yet available in new archives.
A finished film, kept with your memories.
Watch the finished video, download it or open it in a watch party. Keep the editable project when you want to make another version.
Family Films is in a limited preview and is not yet available in new archives.
04 / Watch parties
Hear their voices.
Watch it together.
Invite your family to watch a home video at the same time,
even when you’re in different homes.
Make a time to watch as a family.
Choose a home video from your archive. Start a watch party now, or arrange a time and invite your relatives.
Watch parties are for the people in your private family archive.
Everyone sees the same moment.
Playback stays in sync. Talk in the family chat or use your microphone. Pause when someone has a story to add, then carry on together.
You can pass playback control to another family member.
05 / Event Drops
Everyone’s photographs.
One family occasion.
A birthday, wedding or reunion. Open a family event album
and give everyone one private link to add their photos and videos.
A place for all the photos from that day.
Name the event, set its date and choose how long its contribution link stays open. Send the link to the people who were there.
The photographs go into the event album and onto the right date in your timeline.
They follow the link. They add their photographs.
Relatives sign in to Memrial to contribute from their phone. They can add to the event without joining your archive or seeing its other memories.
You can close or revoke the link when you’ve collected what you need.
06 / Photo books
Their photographs.
In your words.
In Storybooks, choose family photographs and write what you remember.
Arrange them in a book you can read, save and print.
Choose the photographs. Tell the story.
Pick a design and page size. Add photographs from your archive, put them in order and write the words you want beside them.
Your storybooks are private to you, including from other archive members.
Read the photographs with their stories.
Open your finished book and turn through the pages. Export a PDF to save or print yourself, with the photographs and the words together.
A family holiday, someone’s life or the photographs you keep returning to.
07 / Time capsules
Something from you.
For a day still to come.
Write a message for a future birthday, anniversary or family occasion.
Add a photograph or video and choose when it opens.
Say what you want them to remember.
Give your capsule a title, write your message and choose an opening date. You can include a photograph or home video from the archive.
Your family can see the title while the capsule is closed.
The message waits until the day you chose.
The capsule’s message and attachment stay hidden until its opening date, even from the person who wrote it.
A photo or video you attach still remains available separately in your archive.
Archive checkup
Put a name
to that face.
See which memories are missing a name, a date or a story. Open one, add what you know and ask a relative about the rest.
A few details now make the photograph easier for the next generation to understand.
How your family can help
Storage and family tool allowances depend on your membership. Compare plans.
Private, by invitation
Your family.
Your memories.
Your choice.
You decide who joins your archive. Your photographs and family conversations are shared with the people you invite.
Understand family privacy- People you choose
- The archive owner manages invitations, membership and permissions.
- Original files, kept
- Your original photographs and home videos remain available to download.
- No advertising
- There are no ads in your family archive.
- One archive for your family
- Your relatives join the same archive. They don’t each need a subscription.
Begin with a memory you love
Start your
family archive.
Add a photograph. Invite someone who remembers.
Give your family a place to keep it together.