Guides to telling and keeping family stories
How to ask, how to listen, and how to keep what your family tells you.
60 questions to ask your parents before you wish you had
Good questions to ask your mom or dad about their childhood, love, work and life, plus tips for getting real stories instead of one word answers.
How to record your family’s stories while you still can
A practical guide to recording a parent’s or grandparent’s life stories: what to ask, how to record, and how to keep and share them.
How giving EverTold works
How the EverTold gift works: choose a package, pick their first questions, schedule delivery for any day, and get a note when they tell their first story.
Questions to ask your family at the Thanksgiving table in 2026
Thanksgiving table questions for every generation: what to ask your parents and grandparents, questions kids can ask, and how to keep the answers.
What only EverTold does
Each relative hears the story from their own place in the family
When Mom tells a story about her brother, her daughter hears it as a story about "your uncle" and her grandson hears "your great-uncle", read aloud in a warm storyteller’s voice. Every listener gets the version that makes sense to them.
Story time for the grandkids
A grandchild can tap a story at bedtime and hear it retold for a child: the same true story, simpler words, a gentler pace. Adults get the faithful telling.
A real conversation, not a writing assignment
EverTold asks a question out loud, listens, and follows up, like a patient grandchild on a phone call. It waits for them to finish. Nobody has to write a thing.
Their real voice, kept
The recordings of their answers are saved privately for the family, right next to the written stories, so you keep the way they actually sound.
Handed down for generations
A family library that keeps growing, paid for once. No subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel.
The family can ask for more
Anyone in the family can send a question like "Mom, tell me about the farm". It goes to the real person, and their answer comes back as a new story.
The EverTold Forever Promise: One payment, no renewals, for as long as EverTold operates. Download everything any time. If EverTold ever closes, you get at least 6 months’ notice and then 90 days to download everything before anything is deleted. Read the full promise
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One storyteller, a lifetime family library, paid once.
Two storytellers, usually Mom and Dad, sharing one family library, paid once.
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