Before you begin
- An owner or editor role, or an invitation to contribute to this person
- An active trial or plan for the family archive
What would you like to keep?
- A photograph or file
- Upload photographs. Add pictures from your phone or computer, including HEIC files. You can also upload audio, video and PDFs.
- A story in your own words
- Write a memory. Start with a few sentences, a familiar saying or the story behind a photograph.
- Someone’s voice
- Record a voice. Speak, listen back, and save the recording when you are ready.
Add photographs or files
Choose Add files, select your files, then choose Add files to uploads. Keep the tab open until each file shows Saved. Follow the photo walkthrough.
Write a memory
Choose Write a memory, write in the Memory box, then choose Save memory. A title is optional. Follow the writing walkthrough.
Record a voice
Choose Record a voice and allow microphone access. Stop, listen back, and choose Add to uploads. Wait for Saved. Follow the voice walkthrough.
After saving: who is it about, who can see it
A memory added from a person’s page is already linked to them. Memories saved without a person stay in the Archive inbox until an editor links people or keeps them for the whole family. Filing and privacy are separate: sensitive material about living people or people with unknown life status starts with editors and owners only.
Contributors can add new memories of the invited person, but cannot change audiences or edit saved material. Their saved contribution may be visible only to editors under living-person protections. Ask an editor to correct or remove it.
Owners and editors can open the saved memory, choose Link people, and pick the people in it. Add a date and a place if you know them. See the archive inbox and item details for the full set of details.
Your next step
Help article by Our Story · · Updated