Your generational family vault.

Bring a lifetime of photos, videos, voices, documents, and stories together in one private place—turn the scattered fragments of a life into something worth passing on.

Pizza on the FloorOctober 4, 1997 · Boise, Idaho

You already have the pieces.

Photos, videos, documents, recordings, and more
—scattered across devices, boxes, and memories.

Rachel’s crayon drawing of a house, labelled Our House Someday.
A small family snapshot of young Rachel holding her baby brother on a couch.
A scanned appliance-repair course sheet from 1995.
A home-video frame of Rachel and Daniel among moving boxes.

The file can survive.
The story can disappear.

Why is she
holding the key?

Pizza on the Floor · 1997

What the file can’t tell you,
someone still can.

1997

Pizza on the Floor

October 4, 1997 · Boise, Idaho

Elaine Mercer in 2026.
Elaine Mercer · 65
2026Recorded 2026 · 0:36

Generational Story helps you ask, capture, and keep the context only people can add.

Generational Story

What do you remember about this night that someone couldn’t know from the photograph?

Record

Recorded 2026 · 0:36

The key to our first house

“You can see Rachel holding that key, but there’s no way you’d know why…”

Tom handed Rachel the key and said:

“You’ve been designing our house longer than any of us. You should get to open it.”

36 secondsA story the photograph couldn’t tell.

See a life in context.

Generational StoryMercer family
Private vault

Our First Home

1995–2006

1995Before this night
1997A place of their own
Pizza on the FloorOctober 4 · Boise, Idaho
The key to our first houseElaine Mercer · Recorded 2026
1999Life in the house
The deckA later family memory
2006The story continues
I kept the keyRachel Mercer

“I do remember keeping it.”

Some stories only surface when someone asks.

10 years

In use since 2016 with families and estate-planning professionals.

LucileFamily History

“I thought I had heard all of my dad's life stories, but decided to do the recording anyway. There were two childhood memories he recalled that I had not previously heard. My family is so grateful for this history recording because my dad passed away two months later.”

KleaEstate Planning

“I have been using Generational Story since 2016 for my estate planning practice.”

TomFamily History

“Once I saw and heard my dad's stories, I wept with emotion from the stories that I was hearing for the first time.”

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What they’ll want to remember.
What they’ll need to know.

Generational Story brings the personal and the practical into one family vault — from photos, voices, and stories to documents, contacts, wishes, instructions, account information, and assets.

Your family vault

Memories

The parts of a life you want them to know.

Pizza on the Floor, a Mercer family photograph.
  • Photos
  • Stories
  • Audio & video
  • Family history

Life Essentials

The things they may need when responsibility passes to them.

  • Documents
  • Account information
  • Contacts & advisors
  • Wishes & instructions
  • Assets & property

Forever Storage

Your family archive
shouldn’t depend on us.

A majority of your one-time payment goes into a dedicated preservation trust, funding your Vault’s storage and accessibility for 150+ years — even if Generational Story is no longer operating.

Ordinary cloud storage

  1. You / family
  2. Recurring payment
  3. Cloud company
  4. Stored files

Preservation depends on the relationship continuing.

Forever Storage

  1. One-time
    purchase
    Selected Vault capacity
  2. Dedicated
    preservation trust
  3. Your VaultStored and accessible
  4. 150+years

Preservation funded separately from company operations.

A few things you may be wondering.

Why not just use Google Drive or Google Photos?

If all you need is general-purpose file storage, those tools may be enough. Generational Story is designed specifically for building a family vault around what you preserve — keeping memories connected to stories and context, helping your family capture what hasn’t been recorded, and giving the people you invite a way to explore the story over time.

Do I have to organize a whole lifetime before I start?

No. Start with one photograph, recording, document, story, person, or period of a life. Add context as you go and let the Vault grow over time.

Can other family members contribute?

Yes. Vaults include unlimited collaborators, so the people you invite can help add the memories and perspectives they know.

Can I bring in what I already have?

Yes. Current Vault plans include imports from Google Drive, Dropbox, and iCloud, so you can begin with material you’ve already collected.

What happens if I stop paying for Annual storage?

If Annual billing ends, your Vault remains safely stored for 60 days.

Made to be explored, not just stored.

Start with what you have. Add what only you know.

Our House Someday, a crayon drawing of Rachel’s imagined family home.

Our House Someday

Rachel Mercer · 1995

Rachel had spent years drawing imaginary houses and asking when the family would finally have one that was “really ours.” Tom quietly saved some of her drawings.