Adding Meaningful Context

FamilyArc’s biographer team interviewed Randy about his once-in-a-lifetime trips and wrote a series of stories capturing his memories and his insights about how each journey impacted his family. An archivist paired the stories with photos,created story collections, and organized them along an interactive timeline. "Our family made a conscious decision to build family memories through travel, and now the archive—which brings the pictures into albums and puts them with stories—really brings that part of our intentional living to life," Randy said.

Making History Accessible

Before now, Randy’s kids had never seen the journals he created each week. All they knew was that Dad disappeared into his office for a couple of hours each Sunday morning. To make Randy’s journals accessible to his family, archivists organized them in chronological order and turned the journals into visually appealing stories on Storyline. Now, Randy’s kids will be able to access Dad’s thoughts, prayers, and insights from anywhere for years to come. "FamilyArc lets you take your content and share it within your family circle," Randy said. "It creates a family network. It goes from my tablet to the cloud, and then you can share it with whomever you want. That’s exponential—it is incredibly more useful." Randy has found his experience with the FamilyArc platform and professional services to be rewarding and fun. And he knows the work is far from over. He has many more ideas for building his archive and helping other family members catch his vision for preserving family legacy along the way. "Over time, ideally, others will add to the archive and build it out in their own custom way, and that’s when it will really come to life."