A family digital legacy kit

The archive you wish you had tomorrow must be built today.

One Thousand Stories is a repeatable method for capturing a family member's memories, voice, and wisdom — a thousand recorded stories, answers, and pieces of advice, organized so your family can keep them forever, and honest guidance for the interactive AI layer you can build on top.

Get One Thousand Stories — Family Digital Legacy Kit — $19 See what's inside

Instant download · 23-page designed guide + 4 editable Word templatesWorks with a phone on a stand — start this week, no special gearPrint and copy freely (one family)

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How it works

Two tracks. Five steps. One warm hour a week.

Whether your subject can still sit and talk (Track A) or you're working from recipe cards, letters, and family memory (Track B), the method is the same five steps.

Define the subject

Profile whoever matters most: track, urgency, what rich material already exists, what's unrecoverable, and the question your family will someday want answered. Fifteen minutes on the worksheet.

Collect, weekly

Recorded 90-minute sessions for living subjects — two devices, casual open, follow every tangent, never correct a memory. For artifact-only subjects: high-fidelity digitization and family memory interviews.

Never run out of questions

A question bank spanning eight life periods and five question types — from "tell me about the house you grew up in" to "what should this family never forget?" A good session yields 15–30 stories.

Organize as you go

Eight folders, one file-naming convention, four tags. Same-day cloud upload, two backup locations, restore-tested. A thousand stories your family can actually find — and an archive an AI can be built on.

The AI layer, honestly

What a Track A archive can support (voice, personality, real conversation) versus Track B (knowledge and written voice) — the technology options in plain English, and why the archive always outranks the AI.

Keep it kind

The consent and governance rules families need before building an interactive archive: the subject's recorded yes, the portrait-not-person rule, archive-only material, and who holds the keys.

What's inside

The complete method, designed to be used.

The 23-page guideThe founding lesson, both collection tracks, session craft, the archive system, the twelve-month arc, success metrics, and a clear-eyed chapter on AI options — RAG, fine-tuning, voice cloning, memorial platforms — with consent rules.
The question bankEight life periods — early childhood through wisdom and reflection — plus five question types with the follow-up craft that turns one planned question into twenty minutes of stories.
Five printable worksheetsSubject Profile, Session Log, Story Tracker, Artifact Catalog, and the Thousand-Story Wall — a 1,000-box poster for the refrigerator, one box per captured story, a gold box at every hundredth.
Four editable Word templatesThe Subject Profile, Session Log, Story Tracker, and Artifact Catalog as editable .docx files — add rows, adapt fields, run the whole project digitally if you prefer.

Inside One Thousand Stories — Family Digital Legacy Kit

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$19 · one-time

One Thousand Stories — Family Digital Legacy Kit

$19, once. Start with the free 3-page starter (the method at a glance, the profile worksheet, and a first-session guide) at /legacy-starter/ — then the full kit is here when you're ready for the year.

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Instant download · Single-family license: print, copy, and edit freely · A family-history method and planning kit — not medical, legal, or counseling advice.