How it works

One memory becomes a family history.

Start with something real. Give it a place in time. Then invite the people who can turn a file into a story your family keeps.

Start free with a photo
A family sorting through printed photographs together
It begins with what you already have.A phone photo, an old print, a scan or a home video.

Step 01Add a memory

Choose one photo or video.

You do not need to organise decades of family media before you begin. Start with the picture everyone talks about, or the old home video nobody has watched in years.

  • Phone and camera photos
  • Scanned prints and albums
  • Digitised VHS and camcorder tapes
Need to digitise an old tape?
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Add memoriesOriginal files are kept untouched

3 files

Easter-lunch-1988.jpg4.8 MB · Original stored

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Garden-party-1994.mov1.2 GB · Original stored

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Family-album-scan.tif38 MB · Original stored

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Step 02Place it in time

Add it to your Family Timeline.

A date gives every memory a place. Tag the people, add the event and write what you know. Memrial connects it all so the family can browse a person or a whole decade.

  • Pin exact or approximate dates
  • Tag relatives across the years
  • Group memories around albums and events

Carter familyTimeline

84 memories

Mum added a photoChristmas morning

Dad added a videoThe garden film

5 people taggedThe lake trip

12 people taggedTogether again

Step 03Invite your family

Bring in the people who remember.

Memrial is built for a family, not a lone archivist. Relatives can identify people, correct dates, add their own photographs, answer requests and leave the stories only they know.

  • Invite only the people you choose
  • Give everyone a simple way to contribute
  • Keep the conversation beside the memory
Who can do what inside an archive?

ContributorsAccepted relatives can upload, comment, react, tag people and add context. An uploader can remove their own memory.

Archive ownerThe owner invites or removes members, can remove any memory, and approves suggested dates. Changes remain attributed to the person who made them.

MumDadNanGrandadAuntie MayCousin Tom

6 family membersAll inside one private archive

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Memory requestWho has the wedding photograph?Asked by Mum · 4 replies

Auntie MayAdded the missing photographWedding day · 1962

Found

Nan remembered“Your grandad missed the bus…”Story added to the memory

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Step 04Complete the record

Ask the family to fill the gaps.

Request something missing, collect everyone’s photographs from one occasion, ask a meaningful question, then use Archive Checkup to see which names, dates and captions still need attention.

  • Memory Requests for missing items
  • Event Memory Drops and Story Prompts
  • Archive Checkup suggestions
Memory Request

Who has the wedding photograph?

Auntie May answered with the missing scan.

Request completed
Event Memory Drop

Grandma Rose’s 90th

One private contribution link filled one dated album.

38 memories collected
Story Prompt

What did your first home feel like?

Grandma’s answer now sits beside the 1962 photographs.

Story preserved
Archive Checkup

Based on dates, captions and identified people

72% complete

Step 05Relive together

Watch the old family videos together.

Start a private Watch Party, invite up to six relatives and give one person the remote. Everyone else stays synchronised while text chat and voice keep the stories flowing.

  • One shared remote
  • Up to six participants
  • Voice and text chat included
Live Watch Party4 watching
Still from the 1994 garden party video▶
12:0426:18

Text chat · MumThis is the day Tom fell in the pool!

Voice chat live

Step 06Preserve for later

Create something the family can return to.

Bring a memory back on an anniversary, design a private family Storybook, or seal a Time Capsule for a future date.

  • Optional monthly digest and family dates
  • Browser-printable Storybooks or save as PDF
  • Private Time Capsules for accepted members
STORYBOOK

Our family summers

Print from your browser or save as PDF
16
AUG

20 years since the lake trip12 memories are waiting

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Sealed

For SarahOpen on 16 August 2034

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Every step stays private

Invite-onlyOnly accepted relatives enter.
Originals keptYour uploaded files remain untouched.
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Yours to takeDownload your originals whenever you need them.

Begin today

Start with one photo or video.

You can add the rest a little at a time. The important thing is giving the first story somewhere to stay.

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