What is a
Family Archive
Preserve your family stories and artifacts
Over the last 50 years the world has changed dramatically. The digital transformation has also been a renaissance in personal media. We live on the verge of this transformation and have responsibilities and opportunities. A Family Archive takes advantage of both by creating a higher resolution record of the lives of those living today, and by allowing us to share those records broadly, increasing generational wisdom. It’s an exciting time to be alive and we love helping people create their Family Archive.
Features
Plan, Capture, Share
With the Stela Family Archive system you have guidance and expertise to help you make sure you preserve your priceless family stories and artifacts. We come along side of you at each stage, helping you plan your approach, capture the stories, and then help you find ways to securely store and share your Family Archive.
Pacific NW Based
We Come To Your Home
4 week Turn Round
Online Archive
Our Partnership
Your Plan
Which Interviews and Photos (with captions) need to be created first? You make the plan. You schedule the work.
Your Home
We come to you and capture the stories and the images of your artifacts on site. They never leave your home.
Your Voices
The stories of the people and the artifacts are recorded in your voices. We make sure your voice comes through loud and clear.
Our Systems
We have done this work before. We can help guide you in your priorty decisions and help you understand what works and what doesn’t.
Our Professional Tools
We use professional imaging and recording tools to create a high quality capture of your voices, faces, and imporant artifacts.
Our File Management
We can help you get your Archive Organized and started off on a good path. We leave you with on-site and off-site copies of your data and the tools and training for how to manage your archive into the future.
Stela Meaning
Wikipedia says Stela “is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted.” We want to help you make a lasting mark in the world– to commemorate the lives you lived, the accomplishments you experienced, and the legacy you are leaving. Our past, our history, is one of the most compelling proofs that we are more than the temporary arrangement of materials in an impersonal universe. We celebrate the past because it’s the story of the goodness of life, and of the gratitude that can redeem our suffering and help us to understand our trials. Stela stands for an intent to celebrate and remember our lives with gratitude and hope that we can help those who come after us with our own joys and sorrows.
Family Historian
Each Family Archive is started by one person and there’s a good chance that you are that person. Your family needs a curator, a family historian. It’s a big job, but you don’t have to do it alone. Leverage your role, our expertise, and the support and gratitude of your whole family to get your family stories safely recorded and stored. Get started today.