Story Keeper is the gift of being remembered. We interview your mother, your father, your grandparent — gently, over a few weeks — and hand your family a finished film, a hardcover book, and their voice, kept forever.
No pressure, no obligation · We do all the work · Starts within a week
Our promise: if the first interview isn’t everything you hoped, you owe nothing. That is how sure we are your family will treasure this.
When was the last time you heard your grandmother's voice? Not a photo of her — her voice. The way she paused before a story. The way she laughed at her own joke before the punchline.
Most of us can't answer that. Not because we didn't love them — but because no one ever sat them down, pressed record, and asked. Story Keeper is us doing that for you, before the chance is gone.
Everyone intends to capture their parent's story. Almost no one does. The camera feels awkward. The right questions don't come. Life gets busy. And then one day the chance is simply gone — and what's left is a handful of photos and the ache of everything you didn't ask.
It's not a failure of love. It's that no one ever made it easy. That's the entire reason Story Keeper exists.
No filming. No editing. No awkward questions. A trained Story Coach handles everything — you just help your loved one show up.
A 60-minute call with your family to learn who your loved one is and design an interview arc around the life they've lived.
Six to eight gentle, guided video conversations led by a trained Story Coach. Warm, unhurried, and richer than you'd believe.
Our editors shape every session into a polished episode. Our designers turn transcripts and old photos into a hardcover book.
A private film series, a printed Life Story Book, a USB keepsake, and a Legacy Highlight Film — delivered to your door.
Everything is produced, printed, and delivered. Nothing for you to assemble, edit, or figure out.
Every interview edited into a beautiful episode, delivered to a private family channel only the people you choose can watch.
Weeks of professional filming & editingTheir words and your family's photos, professionally designed into a printed keepsake you can hold — plus a digital edition.
Designed, printed & bound for youA cinematic 15–20 minute short — the one you'll screen at birthdays, anniversaries, and one day, when they're gone.
A keepsake film in its own rightEvery finished film, every photo, and the raw footage — all in one place, yours to keep and pass down for generations.
Yours forever, nothing withheldA life story shouldn’t live on one person’s laptop. When your film is finished, we create a private archive for your family — and you invite everyone who should have it. Brothers and sisters. Children. Grandchildren who aren’t born yet.
Share one private link and the whole family can watch — wherever they are, on any device. No logins to remember, nothing to install, no files to email around.
Your archive isn’t listed, isn’t searchable, and isn’t public. Only the people you share the link with will ever see it.
Your family also receives the original files and transcripts to keep and copy. The archive is there for convenience — but the story belongs to you, and it survives with or without us.
Because the grandchild who needs to hear this most may not be born yet.
These are real stories from real families we’ve had the privilege of filming — shared with their kind permission. This is the kind of keepsake your family will hold onto forever.
A life told in his own words, set to the photographs that shaped it — exactly the kind of primary-source record a family treasures for generations. This is the heart of what we do.
Every family’s story is different. Yours will be entirely its own.
Testimonials from our founding families, coming soon.
Every option includes the interviews, the editing, the book, and the highlight film. You're choosing how much of their story to capture.
Pricing is for one subject. Couples and multi-generation projects available — just ask on your call.
And whichever you choose — if the first interview isn’t everything you hoped, you owe nothing.
We’re taking on a small number of founding families as we begin — and because their trust and their stories help shape everything that follows, they receive extras we won’t always offer. Same price. Considerably more.
Additional copies of the Life Story Book — one for each sibling or child — so the whole family holds a copy, not just one household.
We’ll restore and digitize a set of your treasured old family photographs to include in the film and book — bringing faded images back to life.
Founding families go to the front of the calendar. When time matters — and it so often does — we begin your interviews first.
A quiet thank-you to the families who help us begin. Mention it on your discovery call.
We know this is precious, and we know it's a real investment. So the first session is our promise to you: if it doesn't feel warm, safe, and worth it, we part as friends and you pay nothing. That's how confident we are that your family will treasure this.
You’ve done the research — the tree, the records, the years of work. Story Keeper captures the one source you can’t retrieve from any archive: the living testimony behind it all. We interview, film, and transcribe every session, and preserve it to the standards the oral-history field is built on.
The result sits alongside your research as a citable, searchable, first-person source — the voice behind the record, kept with the record.
See our approach to preservation → How we preserve →Book a free, no-pressure 20-minute call. We'll talk about your loved one, answer every question, and help you decide if Story Keeper is right for your family. If it's not, we'll tell you honestly.
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