The family history project you'll actually finish.

Turn family photos, records, and voices into beautifully crafted ancestor biographies

A collage of vintage family photographs
My Keepsake

Click an ancestor to read their story

How it works

Family photo album, letters and newspaper clippings spread across a table with mugs of coffee

Gather what you have

Add a photo, record an interview, drop in a favourite recipe.

A woman photographing a handwritten letter with her phone at a sunlit table

The story engine

Keepsake transcribes voices, handwriting and text, draws together your family records, then shapes the pieces into chapters of a life story — ready for you to edit, refine and make your own.

A tablet showing a Keepsake ancestor life story, surrounded by old photographs and letters

Keepsake forever

Enjoy and share your gallery of ancestor biographies enriched by trees, timelines, images and more.

“That family history, lurking in the dark corners of your life, becomes illuminated and organised through this app. It’s a big relief to know it will be available for adding to as new information emerges.”

— Jude, Keepsake Family History user

Which ancestor's life story will you capture today?

Handwritten family trees, old photographs and newspaper clippings around a phone showing a Keepsake life story chapter
Historic photographs — a Parisian patisserie queue and a row of street vendor carts
“Whether our ancestors were crossing occupied France in disguise to reunite with a loved one, or building a sweet shop empire in 1920s Newcastle, we believe their stories matter. That's why we built Keepsake.”

— Sarah & Sam

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University of East AngliaBath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution