Family history
Where your family line came from, and how it grew.
Families carry history that fades if no one writes it down. A family history traces a family line across generations: where it began, how it changed, and what holds it together today.
From £19 for a digital edition · £49 softcover · photos included · read it all before you pay
Every family carries history that exists nowhere but in a few people’s memories. Where the name came from. The relatives who crossed oceans. The traditions nobody can quite explain the origin of. The turning points that quietly decided how everyone since has lived. When those people go, the history usually goes with them.
This is different from a family tree. A tree gives you names and dates. A family history gives you the story: who these people actually were, what they lived through, how the line moved and changed and held together. Sage interviews the family member who remembers most, gathers what has been passed down, and shapes it into a readable narrative across the generations, with room for the photographs and documents that bring it to life.
Genealogists like it because it turns years of research into something the whole family will actually read. Others make one because a grandparent is the last person who remembers the old country, and nobody has written it down. You read the finished book before you pay, and can order copies for the whole family. Each additional copy costs less, so everyone can keep their own.
It becomes the book that comes out at gatherings, and the one a new grandchild is given when they are old enough to ask where they came from.
What Sage explores
The things worth remembering.
Through a warm, unhurried conversation, Sage gently draws out the details that make the story yours. You never need to know where to begin.
A glimpse of the writing
“Emmanuel Okonkwo was born in Lagos in 1941, the third of five children. His mother sold fabric at the market and sang while she worked. His father repaired radios and believed the future would be louder than the past.”
Who it is for
People who make a family history
The finished keepsake
Something to keep forever.
A family history to share at gatherings and pass to the next generation.Choose a printed hardcover or softcover, a digital edition, or add an audiobook narrated by a professional AI voice, or in the subject's own voice, recreated with AI voice cloning.
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Family history questions
- What is the difference between a family history book and a family tree?
- A family tree records names, dates and relationships. A family history tells the story behind them: who your relatives were, what they lived through, and how the family moved and changed. Chapternity writes that narrative, and your photographs and documents can sit throughout.
- Can I order copies for the whole family?
- Yes, and each extra copy costs less. The second copy is 25% off and every copy after that is 40% off, so children, siblings and grandparents can all keep their own.
- I have done genealogy research already. Can that be included?
- Yes. Sage can build on what you already know, weaving your research and the memories that go with it into a single readable family story rather than a stack of records.
More questions? See the full FAQ or how it works.
Before you begin
Free guides that help
Practical advice on gathering the memories, asking better questions, and deciding what to include.
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