Embertree

Embertree is a private space where a family builds its tree together, records the stories behind it, and keeps them for the people who come after. Most family apps are built for research into the dead. Embertree is built for the living: the aunt three time zones away, the grandfather whose voice you have never recorded, the cousins who have never met. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Build the family tree together. Parents, children, spouses, adoption, step-families and the parents nobody knows the name of. Everyone in the space can add what they know. • Record a voice. Sit with a grandparent, press record, and keep the way they tell it. Each recording is transcribed so it can be read as well as heard. • Write the stories down. Long or short, with the people they are about attached to them. • Keep the photographs. Add them from the camera or the library, caption them, and say who is in them. • Invite…