Create your family archive

Open our-story.co and choose Start trial, or go straight to sign up. Enter your email address and the verification code that arrives, or continue with a provider you already use.

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The Family trial needs no card. If you already have an account, use sign in instead; relatives who were invited or asked a question sign in with the same page.

After signing in you arrive at Make a home for your family story. This one screen creates the archive.

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   Step 1. Type a name into Family archive name, such as The Marlowe Family. You can rename it later in Settings.

   

   

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   Step 2. Under What would you like to do first? choose one: Save a memory takes you to the memory composer, Build my family asks who you are, and Bring an existing tree opens the GEDCOM import.

   

   

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   Step 3. Choose Create my archive. The archive is saved at once; if the page reloads or your connection drops, the same screen lets you continue rather than creating a duplicate.

If you chose Build my family, the next screen is Find your place in the family. Adding yourself is what lets the app say how everyone else is related to you.

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   Step 1. Enter Your given names; the family name and birth year are optional.

   

   

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   Step 2. Choose Open my family, or Skip for now if you would rather not be on the tree yet.

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   Step 3. Your family view opens with one name and the note Your story starts here. The person is on record but not yet joined to anybody; that is expected.

   

   

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• Add the people you know: a parent or two is enough for the tree to take shape.
• Save your first memory: a photograph, a written story or a voice.
• Invite a relative once there is something for them to see.