For Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Thanksgiving, or any table where three generations sit down at once

Three questions to ask
at the holiday table this year

Someone at your table remembers a love found in wartime, an evacuation, a loss, the names, the town: your family’s history. Let’s preserve it before it is too late. Ask these questions. Press record on your phone. Ten minutes is enough.

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One page each, white, ready to print. Everybody at the table answers, like the four questions at Passover, except that here nobody is exempt. What a Family Story Map is.

Before the cake comes out

Put your phone on the table and press record.

Tell everyone the day before to bring one old photograph. Then put your phone on the table and press record before the cake comes out. Ask the questions one at a time and let everyone talk over each other, because that is where the good parts are. Say the date and who is at the table at the start, so that in thirty years somebody knows.

1
Which relative from your childhood do you remember best, and why?
את מי מקרובי המשפחה מילדותכם אתם זוכרים הכי טוב, ולמה?Кого из родственников вы лучше всего помните с детства, и почему?
2
Tell one family story that is vivid for you.
ספרו סיפור משפחתי אחד שנשאר חי בזיכרונכם.Расскажите одну семейную историю, которая особенно ярко вам запомнилась.
3
Show your photograph. Who is on it, where was it taken, and when?
הראו את התמונה שהבאתם. מי מופיע בה, איפה היא צולמה, ומתי?Покажите свою фотографию. Кто на ней, где она снята и когда?

Preserve and cherish your family memories, while all the people who hold them are still sitting at the table.

Family story questions for Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Thanksgiving or Passover: the one holiday table game where nobody is exempt, and there is a recording at the end.

After the holiday

Recorded something? Send it to us.

A recording in English, Hebrew, Russian or any mix of them is fine. So is a photograph of a page nobody in the family can read. You do not need to transcribe anything.

First Chapter

$195

five places, one payment

We listen to the recording and pick five places from it. The town your grandmother was born in. The port they left from. The city they waited in. The street they first lived on here. We research each one, find it even if it has been renamed twice, and put all five on a real map with your family’s own words beside them.

One language, ready in about a week. If you go on to the full family map afterwards, the whole $195 comes off the price.

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Message sent

We will be in touch within one business day and tell you how to upload your recording, or a whole folder.

The full map, and what it costs

Where the recording can end up

A Family Story Map

A memoir, a recording, or a folder of documents and photographs, placed back where it happened: an interactive map of every town your family lived in, with a family tree linked to it. Every place opens your own photograph and the part of the story that belongs to it.

The map shown here is our own family’s, built from one grandmother’s recorded memories. Thirty one places, eighty six people, a hundred and thirty five years, in Hebrew, Russian and English from the same link. Yours stays private unless you tell us otherwise.

See the full Family Story Map page Open a real family map

The whole family map with the journey drawn: numbered stops running from Belarus and Lithuania through Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to Israel, then across the Atlantic to Los Angeles and Boston

Three questions to askat the holiday table this year