Without your voice, photos are just photos. Keepsakes are just objects. And the things you believed in disappear with you. YourStories.Live helps you pass down more than possessions.
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Tell a Story
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Build Your Profile
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Built around two simple ideas.
Your Family's Biography Lives Forever
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Preserve your stories in video, audio, photos, and text
Invite family and friends to add their perspectives
Future generations read, watch, or listen when they're ready
Safe. Secure. Yours to share.
Gifts & Messages Delivered in the Future
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Your father's watch. Your grandmother's china. Your wedding dress.
Add the story and meaning behind each one
Schedule delivery up to 30 years from now
Be there for moments that matter, even when you won't
See what makes us different from other legacy sites.
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Features
Record your story in video, audio, photos & text
Let family add their perspectives
Schedule messages & gifts for future delivery
Preserve stories for generations (not just one recipient)
Filter stories by person, theme or topic
Editable after publishing
Sharable with family & loved ones
YourStories
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Full multimedia
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Legacy Books
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Text + photos only
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Limited
Ancestry Sites
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Primarily documents
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Ancestors only
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Unlimited
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Facebook
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Social posts only
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React to social posts
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A closer look at what's inside.
YourTimeline
YourLife
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A chronological record of your life. In your words, photos, and videos.
The friends who got you through college or your first job
The holiday dinners that didn't seem special until they were gone
The challenges you faced and how you overcame them
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A simple way to capture who you are — through every stage of life.
Your favorite song at 15
The people who shaped you in your 20s
What mattered most to you at 40
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A curated collection of your most meaningful images — each one with a story.
Select the photos that matter most
Tell the story behind each one — who's in it, why it matters
Future generations browse your life, one photo at a time
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Schedule treasured possessions and messages for future delivery — up to 30 years from now
The quilt your grandmother made. A letter you've been waiting to send.
Attach the story behind each one
Choose when it arrives — a graduation, a wedding, a milestone birthday
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Every story starts with a memory.
See how families are preserving theirs.
I never thought my dad's stories from the war would move my grandchildren this much.
James K.
Chicago, USA
Now my voice will live on for my children and theirs — across generations.
Emma R.
New York, USA
Building our family's story brought everyone together for the first time in years.
Anthony B.
San Francisco, USA
Common Questions
Find clear, helpful info about our product, pricing, and more.
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What is YourStories.Live™ (“YSL”)?
YourStories.Live™ is a legacy-preservation platform designed to ensure your life lives on across generations—by keeping your stories and your possessions aliveYour stories are recorded by photo, video audio and combined with your loved ones and friends too. Add meaningful tributes to your friends, grandkids, children and things like advice or special trips.We preserve your stories forever, and allow your grandchildren to even interact with them when they are ready, while ensuring everything is shared on your terms. ALSO, you can physically pass on your meaningful treasures and personal items. That’s right, items like your favorite collections, china sets, jewelry, family heirlooms can be passed on into the future to be delivered when you think your loved ones are ready to receive them.
With YourStories.Live™, you can:
Build your personal life timeline
Add photos, videos, audio, and milestones in chronological order
Invite friends and family to add their “take” for a richer story
Leave audio/video or email messages for future delivery
Schedule gifts (from heirlooms to personal treasures to services like flowers) up to 30 years into the future
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What is the goal of YourStories.Live™ (“YSL”)?
Our goal is to ensure your precious life is cataloged, remembered, and accessible to your loved ones—when they are ready to receive the stories and gifts that made you unique.
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How do I create my timeline?
There are two ways to add your life to YSL:
Do it yourself using our system
YSL Concierge meetups (for a small fee or upgraded accounts) to help record and add video/audio files
Both options begin by:
Creating your account (like a retail checkout—we only need a few pieces of information)
Moving through simple questions, answered by video or typing (the basic foundation for your life)
As these are completed, we assemble:
Your Ancestry
Your Profile
Your Timeline
If you like what you see, you approve it. Don’t like it? Change or delete it.Along the way or after, you can invite loved ones to comment, add viewers, or add recipients for future delivery of your possessions.
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Can others comment to my timeline?
Yes—and that’s part of what makes YSL unique. You can invite selected family and friends to:
Add their “take” on your stories (video, audio, or typing)
Upload their photos or videos
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Where are you located?
YSL’s main office is in Baltimore, MD, with additional offices in:
Columbia, MD
Honolulu, HI
Seoul, South Korea
Why we created YourStoriesLive.com™
When my brother passed away at 50, his daughters were 10 and 3.
They were left with boxes of photos and his awards. And a Mets hat he wore to every game. But they don’t know it was his lucky hat, or why. They don’t know the people in those photos or what they meant to him.
They won’t know what he believed in, what he valued, or what he would have wanted them to understand about life. They have his things, but not his story.
That’s why we created YourStories.Live. So future generations don’t just inherit your stuff. They inherit your stories, your values, and your meaning, in your own words, delivered when they’re ready to receive them.