Keep the originals
Retain full-quality audio, photographs, scans, video, and documents rather than only compressed previews.
Preserve
Keep more than files.
A folder of photographs is not yet a family history. Golden Record keeps the original material together with the names, voices, relationships, dates, and stories that make it understandable.
Preservation means keeping the meaning attached.
A photograph without a name slowly becomes anonymous. A recording without context becomes hard to place. Golden Record treats the story around every item as part of the item itself.
Everything the story needs.
Keep the context
Connect people, places, dates, captions, transcripts, and relationships so the archive still makes sense later.
Keep it portable
Export a complete Ever Archive that can live on a computer, an external drive, or storage your family controls.
Keep it resilient
Use clear checks, multiple copies, and open documentation so future software can understand what is inside.
An archive your family can actually hold.
Ever Archive packages original media, transcripts, relationships, dates, permissions, and human-readable indexes together. Copy it to a drive. Keep it in more than one place. Move it beyond any single service.
A clear way through.
Gather what matters
Bring together recordings, camera rolls, albums, documents, and the details still held in someone’s memory.
Name and connect it
Identify the people and places, add the story behind each item, and preserve original dates where possible.
Export and duplicate
Create a portable archive and keep verified copies in separate physical or cloud locations.
The story should outlast the software.
Build it here, share it here, and keep a complete copy in your family’s own hands.
Begin with one story