Family Legacy in Canada: record your parents’ voices
For Canadian families who want the recorded voice rather than a US-printed book — in English, French, or the language a parent arrived with.
Updated 30 July 2026
Family Legacy is a voice-first alternative to StoryWorth for Canadian families. Rather than typed answers printed as a book and shipped from the US, you record your parents talking — in English, French, or the language they arrived with — and keep a searchable archive online, which suits a country where most families trace back to somewhere else within living memory.
Canada is a country of arrival stories, and most of them are recent enough that the person who lived them is still here to tell them. A parent who came from Punjab, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Portugal, or a Prairie farm two generations back; a grandmother whose first language is French, Cantonese, or Tagalog. StoryWorth, the name most people find first, is a US text product that prints a book and ships it across the border. Family Legacy is built around the voice instead.
Is there a StoryWorth alternative in Canada?
Yes. Family Legacy records the spoken conversation rather than collecting typed answers, and there is no printed book crossing the border. You record your parent or grandparent talking, it is transcribed and made searchable, and the archive lives online where family across the country — or back in the country they came from — can reach it.
How does Family Legacy work for Canadian families?
You record on a phone, the session is transcribed and tagged with names, places and years, and it goes into a private archive the family can search and add to. Nothing is posted and nothing waits at the border. There is a full guide in how to record your family's stories.
What about recording in French or a heritage language?
Record your parent in whichever language they are most at home in — French, Cantonese, Punjabi, Tagalog, or any other. The account is fuller in the language they lived it in, and Family Legacy provides an English transcript alongside the original recording, so the archive is searchable while the voice is kept as spoken. There is more in recording a parent in another language.
How is this different from StoryWorth?
StoryWorth is typed answers printed as a book, in English, based in the US. Family Legacy keeps the recorded voice, works across languages including French, and has no book to ship. For the head-to-head see StoryWorth vs Family Legacy, and for the wider field the best StoryWorth alternatives.