A private home for your family's stories — voices, photos, and traditions, preserved for the ones who come after.
The Family Griot is a private home for your family's stories — for families of every background. Record an elder, gather photos, draw your tree, and let our AI Griot ask the questions you've been meaning to ask for years.
$19.99 / month per family · Gift a subscription to a parent or grandparent
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“Y'all need to write this down. We won't be here for generations.”
In our tradition
In West African culture, the griot remembered every name, every quarrel, every harvest, every song — and made sure the children knew them too. Every family, in every culture, has had keepers like this. Migration, distance, and time have pulled many of those archives apart.
This is a home for putting them back together. Built for families of every background and tradition. Private by default. Yours for generations.
What's inside
Save audio interviews and voice memos from elders, with transcripts you can search and pass down.
Stuck on what to ask? Our guided questions help even the shyest cousin start a conversation worth recording.
A private home for the photos in the shoebox, the videos on the phone, and the documents in the drawer.
A new soulful prompt every Sunday — a tiny way to keep the archive growing without it feeling like homework.
Add ancestors, elders, and the new baby. Connect a face to every name, a birthplace to every branch.
Find that one story Aunt Ruth told about 1979 — in a recording, a photo caption, or a written note.
This week's prompt
“What music played in your family home, and what did it make people do?”
Roots
The name behind your name
Who were you named after, and what do you wish you could ask that person today?
Kitchen
Tasting home
What dish, made by an elder, tastes like home? Who taught them to make it?
Migration
The road that brought us here
Tell the story of how your family came to live where you live now — who moved, when, and what they were chasing or running from.
Sunday
Pews, songs, and folding chairs
Describe a Sunday morning from your childhood. What did the church or the kitchen sound like?
Simple pricing
Community Plan
$19.99/ month
Per family archive
Annual Plan
$199/ year
Saves ~17%
Legacy Starter Gift
$49one-time
6 months of full access
If not renewed: archive becomes read-only — stories are NEVER deleted, and data export is always available.