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Journal
Stories from the archive
Real stories, practical guides, and updates from inside Family & Legacy.
Why I started Family Legacy
Not a family tree of dates. A way to keep the voice — the accent, the pauses, the way they tell it — before the window closes.
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Your parents’ accent is disappearing
An accent is a map of where someone has been, and it fades one generation at a time. Text can hold the words. Only a recording holds the voice.
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Where to start: the questions worth asking
You are in your fifties, your mum or dad is in their seventies or eighties, and there is a whole life in there you have never quite asked about. Here is how to begin, and the five questions that open everything.
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Guide
50 questions to ask your parents about their life
Not a generic list. The specific, gentle questions that actually open a parent up, grouped by topic, with notes on when to push and when to let the silence do the work.
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Comparison
StoryWorth vs Family Legacy: text prompts or their actual voice?
StoryWorth turns typed answers into a printed book. Family Legacy records the voice itself. Here is how they differ, when each one is the right call, and why some families use both.
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Guide
How to record your family's stories
The practical side: what to record on, how to set up, how to put a parent at ease, and what to do with the recording so it lasts longer than a voice note buried in your phone.
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Comparison
The best StoryWorth alternatives for recording a voice (2026)
StoryWorth is a typed book. If you want the voice, video, another language, or an option outside the US, here are the alternatives compared honestly, with what each one is actually for.
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Guide
How to record a parent in another language
If your parent tells their best stories in another language, record them in it. Why the original matters, how code-switching plays out, and how transcription keeps the archive searchable in English.
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Guide
What to do after you've recorded your parents
The recording is only half the job. Here is how to store it so it survives, make it searchable, add the context, and share it — so it is not a voice note nobody can find in ten years.
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Guide
How to write a life story from a recording
A recording and a transcript give you everything a written life story needs. Where to start, how to structure it, and how to keep it sounding like the person rather than a tidy summary.
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A gift
The gift of their voice
For the parent who has everything already: not another object, but their voice recorded and kept. Why it beats a memory book, when to give it, and how it works.
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Australia
Family Legacy in Australia: record your parents’ voices
For Australian families who want the voice, not a book posted from the US — especially where a parent or grandparent migrated and tells their best stories in another language.
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Canada
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.
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New Zealand
Family Legacy in New Zealand: record your parents’ voices
For New Zealand families who want the recorded voice, not a book posted from the US — including where a parent or grandparent grew up speaking another language.
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