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Memory Book

You start free and pay only if you decide to keep the book.

Grandma tells her story, and the family gets the book of her life in her own voice

An AI interviewer asks her questions on the phone, with no app: one question at a time, at her pace. You get a book to print and a web book where every quote can be heard in her voice.

  • The storyteller can be a grandmother, a mother or a father, or you, telling your own life.
  • No smartphone needed: open the link on your own phone and sit next to her, she just talks.
Start for free (Ukrainian)

€29 for the whole book, only if you decide to keep it. One payment, no subscription.

The first chapter is free. You send your grandmother the link, she spends 20 minutes telling her roots, and you read the finished chapter. No card needed. The form is in Ukrainian for now, three short steps. Pick English as the conversation language there, and every question will be in English.

«Ганю, заходь, це вже наше». (Hanya, come in, it is ours now.)

In the web book, a button with her voice sits next to the quote · 0:06

Memory Book

What I Remember

Ганна Петрівна Коваль

Сатанів · Хмельницький

Sample cover. Ганна Петрівна is fictional.

What a chapter looks like

Her words, her sayings, her voice

We remove repetitions and filler like «well, what's it called» and put events in order. Dialect words, sayings and direct speech stay as they are. No fact and no feeling that the storyteller did not name.

Chapter 5 · The keys to the flat

The keys to the flat

We had stood in the queue for a flat for a long time, and when they finally gave us the keys, I could not believe it was ours. The door was freshly painted, and the first thing I remember is the smell of oil paint and Ivan's voice on the stairs:

«Ганю, заходь, це вже наше». (Hanya, come in, it is ours now.)

In the web book, a button with her voice goes here · 0:06

Ivan carried the wardrobe up to the fifth floor himself, stopping at every landing. In the evening we sat on the floor by the window, and the city glittered below like the palm of a hand.

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«What I was proudest of was our two rooms on the fifth floor.»

After my shift at the city hospital I ran home faster than anyone. I worked as a nurse for thirty-one years, but what I was proudest of was our two rooms on the fifth floor.

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Sample spread. Ганна Петрівна is fictional: only the family that ordered a book ever sees the real ones.

How it works

Three steps, and no app

  1. 1

    You send one message

    We have already written it, with a personal link. Send it by Viber, Telegram or WhatsApp, or hand over a printed invitation with a QR code. She needs no registration and no password.

  2. 2

    The interviewer asks her questions on the phone

    It is an AI, and it says so itself. The screen shows one question in large letters and a large record button. It asks who was there, what the house looked like, what her mother said. Any question can be skipped.

  3. 3

    Chapters come to you for reading

    After each topic a written chapter appears in your account. You and the storyteller read it, correct it and approve it. The book can be assembled from any number of chapters; a full book usually takes 6–10 conversations of 20–40 minutes.

A daughter or a grandson can sit next to her and run the conversation from their own phone.

Who asks the questions

An AI that knows how to listen

The conversation is led by an AI interviewer, and we do not hide this from you or from her. It asks one open question at a time, does not prompt, does not argue and does not correct. It adds nothing of its own: every sentence of the book can be checked against the recording, and a chapter enters the book only after you and the storyteller have approved it.

  • You choose the language of the conversation. Ukrainian, Russian or English: pick the language she speaks most often. Direct speech stays as it was spoken.
  • Made for people over 70. One question on the screen, large letters that can be enlarged further, and if the phone supports reading aloud, she can hear the question with one tap. She can answer in text.
  • Names and places without mistakes. Every new name is checked once: «Сатанів, is that right?»
  • Hard years only if she wants. Before war, famine, repression or emigration, it first asks whether the person wants to talk about it.

Privacy in plain words

Only those you gave the password can see itThe web book is password-protected, and search engines cannot see it.

We do not read your bookUnless you ask for help yourself and allow access.

«This is not for the book»It is enough to say those words, and the passage will not go into the book.

Living people are protectedPassages about the health or wrongdoing of living people are marked separately: before the book is approved, you decide whether to keep or remove them.

The voices belong to the familyAny recording can be deleted at any time.

Erase everythingOn your request we delete everything, audio and backups included, within 30 days.

Cloudflare recognizes the voice, Claude from Anthropic writes the text. Under the terms of both services, your recordings are not used to train models. What data we keep and who sees it

What the family gets

A book you can hold in your hands, and a voice you can hear

PDF for printing, A5 format

Cover, contents, chapters, photos and a family page. Print it at any print shop, in Kyiv or in Toronto.

A web book for the family, password-protected

The same text online for all relatives. A button sits next to the quotes: press it and hear how grandma said it.

An audio archive of the conversations

After approval you download all the recordings the storyteller allowed to keep. In one ZIP archive with a simple index: date, topic, length.

The PDF, web book and audio archive open as soon as you approve the book. Until then the chapters are read in your account.

Price

Read first, pay afterwards

You send your grandmother or mother one message with a link, we have already written it. She spends 20 minutes telling about her parents, her home town or village and her name, and you get a finished chapter in her words, with her voice beside every quote. You like it: you continue for €29. You don't: you pay nothing, and we don't ask for a card.

You risk nothing. First she records a chapter, and you read it for free. Then you pay €29, and for another 30 days you can get all your money back. And the book becomes final only when you approve it yourself.

€29 for the whole book, one payment, no subscription
  • One book for the whole family: a web book for all relatives, and you print the PDF in as many copies as you like
  • The first chapter is free, before any payment
  • Conversations, chapters, PDF, web book and audio archive. No extra charges
  • You download the PDF and the recordings for good. We keep the web book and the recordings for at least 10 years, with no subscription.
  • We offer a full refund within 30 days of payment, provided the book has not yet been approved. Once the book is approved, payments are non-refundable. You approve it yourself, when you like it: then the PDF, web book and audio archive open, and the payment becomes final.
Start for free (Ukrainian)

Questions before paying: pytannia@rodovidarchive.com, a human answers.

Frequently asked questions

Who asks the questions?

An AI interviewer. We do not hide this from you or from her: it says so in its greeting, before the first question. You can add your own questions in your account, and it will ask them in its own words when the conversation reaches the right topic.

Grandma does not like talking on the phone. What then?

She can answer in text, and if the phone supports reading aloud, she can hear each question with one tap. Or a relative can sit next to her and run the conversation from their own phone. Any question can be skipped, and the conversation can be paused and continued another day.

How long does it take?

The first chapter takes about 20 minutes. The whole book is usually 6–10 conversations of 20–40 minutes, at her pace. We remind her no more than once a week, and only when the storyteller asked for it. You can finish earlier, from what already exists.

What if she stops halfway?

The book can be assembled from what already exists at any moment. We offer a full refund within 30 days of payment, provided the book has not yet been approved. Once the book is approved, payments are non-refundable.

In which language can she tell the story?

Ukrainian, Russian or English. Pick the language she speaks most often: the interviewer asks in it, and the book will be in the same language.

What happens to the book in ten years?

You download the PDF and the recordings for good. We keep the web book and the recordings for at least 10 years, with no subscription.

How do I get a paper book?

The A5 PDF is ready to print at any print shop. A soft cover is printed from the same file, and for a hard cover the print shop will make the jacket.

You have heard these stories at the table dozens of times

Record them in her voice while she is glad to tell them. The first chapter is free.

Start for free (Ukrainian)

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