PRIVATE PILOT · Living Tree Archive
FAMILY HISTORY, THOUGHTFULLY PRESERVED

Every family has a story.
Give yours a home.

Bring your photographs, family tree, records, and memories together in a private place your family can explore—and keep adding to.

Your family's history. Your family's control.
An illustrative black-and-white family photo album with letters and keepsakes
Illustrative photograph of preserved letters and a family keepsake boxA face. A name.
A story worth keeping.
A glimpse of what you can preserve · illustrative image
Older and younger hands sharing family photographs and a letter
Passing memories on · illustrative image
THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PICTURES

A familiar face.
A whole life to discover.

Give the pictures in your boxes a place in the family story. Put names to faces, gather memories into albums, and find the people connected to each photograph.

  • Photographs & family albums
  • Names, faces & connections
  • Originals & restored viewing copies
Step inside the sample archive
GENERATIONS, CONNECTED

Start with someone.
See where the story leads.

Follow your family tree from a name to the photographs, memories, and records that bring that person into focus.

Fictional sample familyExplore the sample family
Letters, photographs and glasses beside a family keepsake box
Letters & keepsakes · illustrative image
MORE THAN NAMES AND DATES

Keep the stories
behind the pictures.

A handwritten letter. A remembered voice. The details only one relative knows. Keep them alongside the people they belong to, with their source and context.

A PERSONAL PROCESS

You bring the memories.
We help bring them together.

  1. 01

    Start with what you have

    A box of photographs, an existing tree, or a family question. We agree on the scope together.

  2. 02

    Build the connections

    We organize your materials, research the agreed questions, and connect people with photographs and records.

  3. 03

    Welcome your family

    Invite relatives to explore, share memories, and help the archive grow—with review by your chosen family stewards.

CAREFUL WITH YOUR HISTORY

Personal to your family.
Carefully preserved.

Some details are documented. Others are remembered. Your archive keeps the record, the recollection, and the unanswered questions clear.

  • Your family chooses access.

    Personal files stay private until you choose to contribute them.

  • The originals have a home.

    Preserved records stay alongside restorations and viewing copies.

  • The evidence stays connected.

    Sources and uncertainty remain part of the story.

BUILT AROUND YOUR COLLECTION

Personal help.
A clear starting point.

Every family brings something different. We agree on the work and cost before your project begins.

Start with one branch.
Build something lasting.

Tell us what you have—and what you hope to discover.