Your family's story.
Finally written down.
One quiet evening with Sue - your patient family historian - and you walk away with a real, printable family book, a heritage map of where your name has travelled, and the bones of every keepsake your descendants will ever thank you for. Beginner, intermediate, expert, or "I don't even know my great-grandmother's name" - she meets you exactly where you are.
Tap "Talk to Sue" - she'll answer right now. Free 3-minute chat, no sign-up needed.
Sue
"Pour a cup of tea. Tell me about your grandmother."
Three steps. One evening.
Most family-history projects die in a spreadsheet. We made one that actually gets finished - because you just have to talk.
1. Talk to Sue
Click one button. Sue, your friendly family historian, has a real conversation with you about your family - names, places, the funny stories, the legends nobody can prove. No forms. No jargon.
2. We do the heavy lifting
Sue turns your chat into structured notes, suggests history and context for the places your family came from, and lays it all out in beautiful chapters - automatically.
3. Review, tweak, print
Read it through, edit anything you want, add photos. Then download a print-ready book to keep on your shelf or gift to family this holiday.
The companion that listens like family.
Sue is not a chatbot. She is a patient family historian who asks the right next question, remembers what you said two minutes ago, and quietly weaves your scattered memories into a real story.
- Voice or text - whichever you prefer
- Knows when to dig deeper and when to move on
- Pulls in real history of the places your family came from
- Never makes things up - clearly marks legend vs fact
Sue
Your family historian
We help you turn grief into something your family can hold.
AncestLore Keepsakes helps you preserve the people you love - not as data, but as stories, voices, lessons and legacy. It does not replace the person you lost. It helps you carry them forward.
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Remember
Gather their voice notes, photos, letters, videos and WhatsApp messages in one private place.
- 02
Understand
Sue gently turns scattered memories into themes, life chapters, sayings and the lessons they left behind.
- 03
Express
Record what you wish you'd said. What you miss. What you learned from them. What you want your children to know.
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Preserve
It becomes a keepsake - a voice reel, a tribute video, a book chapter, a children's storybook, a printed memory box.
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Continue
Not fake resurrection. Their love still has somewhere to live - for the grandchildren who never got to meet them.
The Mum/Dad Memory Journey
Ten things only they would say. The smell that brings them back. What they taught you without realising.
The Unsaid Words Letter
Write or record what you never got to say. Sue gently shapes it into a private letter, poem or chapter.
The Children's Memory Mode
Gentle prompts for the grandchildren - then a soft illustrated storybook of who Grandma really was.
One conversation. A whole shelf of keepsakes.
A book, a map, a film, a cookbook, a passport packet - made from the same hour of your time.
IncludedA real hardback book
Your family's story, printed and bound.
NewChapter-by-chapter studio
Sue writes beside you, page by page.
ComingHeritage map & wishlist
Pin every place you want to visit.
ComingFamily cookbook
Granny's recipes, gathered and printed.
ComingAncestral-passport research
Italian, Irish, Polish - by descent.
LiveKeepsake films
Faded photos, narrated and gently animated.
InviteVoice vault & time-locked messages
Save the voices of grandparents and loved ones - and record messages to be opened on a birthday, wedding or anniversary, years from now.
ComingFamily fact book
Names, crests, tartans, DNA - prettily laid out.
ComingLetters across time
From an ancestor. Or sealed for a great-grandchild.
Some pieces are free. Some are paid keepsakes. Start free - we'll tell you honestly before anything costs a penny.
Sue meets you exactly where you are.
Brand new to all this
Know only your parents' names? Perfect starting point. Sue asks gentle questions and fills the historical context around the few things you do know.
Done a bit of digging
Got a half-built tree, a DNA test, some old photos? Upload what you have. Sue connects the dots, finds the gaps, and turns the spreadsheet into a story.
Serious genealogist
Bring your FamilySearch tree, GEDCOM files, archive subscriptions. Sue becomes your research assistant, ghost-writer and second pair of eyes.
Plugged into the world's records.
You don't have to bring data with you - but if you do, Sue uses it. We connect to FamilySearch and quietly cross-check every name, place and date against open archives around the world. Your hard work becomes a real, sourced family story - not a guess.
- FamilySearch · the world's largest free genealogy archive
- Digitised newspapers · Welsh, Trove, Chronicling America, BNA
- Open historical archives across Europe + the Americas
- DNA percentages from the major testing services
- Photo upload · old letters, certificates, handwritten records
- Google Maps · pin every ancestral place that matters
Why people actually finish with us.
A gift that means something
Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays. Hand over a book they will actually read - and keep.
Before the stories are lost
Capture what older relatives remember, in their own voice, before time takes it.
For your kids and theirs
Give the next generations a starting point - not a blank page.
"My mum cried. She said it was the first time she'd seen her father's stories written down properly."
"I'd been meaning to do this for ten years. Sue got it out of me in one evening."
"Honestly thought it would be cheesy. It's the best Christmas gift I've ever given."
Questions, honestly answered.
I don't know much about my family - is that a problem?+
Not at all. A single surname or country is enough. Sue fills in the historical context and asks the right questions to surface what you do remember.
Do I need to be good with computers?+
If you can have a chat, you can build a book. Sue does the typing and the layout for you.
Will it invent things that aren't true?+
No. Anything Sue can't verify gets clearly labelled as family lore or context, never presented as fact.
Can I edit what gets written?+
Every chapter is fully editable. Change a word, add a photo, rewrite a whole section - it's your book.
How much does it cost?+
You can start your book free. Pricing for the print-ready, full version is coming soon - we will let you know before anything is charged.
Your story is already there.
Let's get it on the page.
One conversation. One beautiful book. Generations of family who will thank you for it.