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Create a Family Life Story Book. Preserve Their Real Voices.

Capture your own stories or help parents and grandparents preserve theirs. Use guided questions to create a life story book, record real voices and videos, collect family photos and invite loved ones to contribute. Build a living digital memoir that grows with your family and can be treasured for generations.

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YOUR FAMILY STORY & LEGACY VAULT

A Life Story Book. Real Voices & Videos. Memories for Generations.

Capture the Stories Behind the Photos.Preserve the Voices You'll Always Want to Hear.

Family Story & Legacy

Preserve Family Stories, Family History and Future Messages

For families searching how to preserve family stories, create a family history archive or save legacy letters, this pathway turns photos, voice notes, traditions and personal messages into a private living family archive.

Family Story & Legacy

Preserve Family Stories Before They Disappear

Preserve family history in a living archive that connects stories, photographs, voice, video, traditions, legacy letters and future messages to the people and milestones they belong to.

  • Save Stories Before They Disappear

  • Connect Photos, Voice and Traditions

  • Create a Private Family Archive

Founding Family Offer

Two lifetime vaults.
One lasting family legacy.

Two private Premium Lifetime Vaults for any two family members—independently owned and controlled, with shared Rooms for the stories, memories and important information that belong together as a lasting family legacy.

$197One-Off · No Recurring Subscription
$98.50 per parent during the founding offerFuture Pair Price $599
Story & LegacyStories, voice, video, letters and future messages
Health & CareCare wishes, emergency context and decision-makers
Estate PlanningWills, assets, digital legacy and executor guidance
Unlimited private and shared roomsUnlimited content and requestsFree Vaults for loved onesEstate Planning ChecklistAdvance Care PlanningWrite a Life Story BookVoice, video and uploadsFuture Milestone Scheduling
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FAMILY HISTORY IS BETTER WHEN EVERYONE CAN ADD A PIECE

Capture Family History, Life Stories & Shared Memories

Your storyYour wishesYour essentials

Shared heritage. Personal autonomy. A legacy built together.

A family tree preserves names; a family remembers the voices, recipes, jokes and stories behind them. Evaheld helps relatives capture their different perspectives, contribute through Rooms and requests, and preserve shared memories while each person's care and estate records stay private.

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Your family's living history

Story & Legacy

Make the family stories findable before they fade.

Every relative holds a different piece of history. Rooms and requests can help gather first-hand accounts and context across generations without putting the burden on one storyteller.

200+ guided ways to preserve a lifetime

Life stories, memoirs & family history

Interview relatives about early family life · Trace the origins of names and branches · Write down stories behind ancestral places

  • Interview relatives about early family life
  • Trace the origins of names and branches
  • Write down stories behind ancestral places

Videos, voice, photos & memories

Record grandparents telling familiar tales · Add voices to old photo collections · Preserve family celebrations on video

  • Record grandparents telling familiar tales
  • Add voices to old photo collections
  • Preserve family celebrations on video

Legacy letters & future messages

Invite short letters between generations · Save messages for future family milestones · Collect recollections from cousins and siblings

  • Invite short letters between generations
  • Save messages for future family milestones
  • Collect recollections from cousins and siblings

Values, traditions & remembrance

Document recipes that travel through a family · Capture cultural practices and family sayings · Record wishes for family remembrance

  • Document recipes that travel through a family
  • Capture cultural practices and family sayings
  • Record wishes for family remembrance
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Care across generations

Advance Care Planning & QR Emergency Card

Keep each relative's healthcare preferences distinct and understood.

Alongside shared stories, family members can record individual directives, emergency contacts and trusted decision-makers in their own controlled Vaults.

14 ways to prepare care wishes and emergency details

Advance care planning & directives

Encourage conversations about care priorities · Record individual advance planning choices · Keep each person's directives separate

  • Encourage conversations about care priorities
  • Record individual advance planning choices
  • Keep each person's directives separate

QR Emergency Access

Choose critical QR information per person · Maintain accurate personal medication notes · Identify emergency contacts for each generation

  • Choose critical QR information per person
  • Maintain accurate personal medication notes
  • Identify emergency contacts for each generation

Decision-makers & care team

Record relevant healthcare representatives · List family doctors and specialists privately · Share only agreed care information in Rooms

  • Record relevant healthcare representatives
  • List family doctors and specialists privately
  • Share only agreed care information in Rooms

End-of-life, care & personal wishes

Capture preferred care and living environments · Preserve religious and cultural comfort preferences · Review wishes as family needs change

  • Capture preferred care and living environments
  • Preserve religious and cultural comfort preferences
  • Review wishes as family needs change
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Family continuity

Estate Planning

Connect the heritage collection to the practical records families rely on.

Each household can organise its own wills, property notes, professional contacts and digital legacy arrangements while contributing chosen memories to shared Rooms.

23 ways to organise practical essentials

Wills, powers & legal documents

Keep wills linked to their actual owners · Identify each relative's estate professionals · Record relevant powers and guardianships

  • Keep wills linked to their actual owners
  • Identify each relative's estate professionals
  • Record relevant powers and guardianships

Money, property, super & insurance

List family business or asset contact points · Note insurance and superannuation references · Explain locations of historical property records

  • List family business or asset contact points
  • Note insurance and superannuation references
  • Explain locations of historical property records

Important documents & everyday life

Organise heirloom ownership and provenance · Keep important certificates privately available · Record responsibility for shared family possessions

  • Organise heirloom ownership and provenance
  • Keep important certificates privately available
  • Record responsibility for shared family possessions

Digital legacy, Password Manager & final wishes

Protect account access details separately · Describe permissions for digital family albums · Plan memorial and heritage wishes collaboratively

  • Protect account access details separately
  • Describe permissions for digital family albums
  • Plan memorial and heritage wishes collaboratively

Ask one relative the question you've always meant to ask.

Begin a family story Room, then let others add their memories at their own pace.

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FAMILY HISTORY, BUILT TOGETHER

Start the family story with one question someone can answer.

A family legacy doesn't need a family historian. Invite a parent or grandparent to share a memory, connect photographs to their backstories and let different generations contribute their own perspectives through controlled sharing.

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Ask for the story behind a family photo

Choose someone with a memory you want preserved. Charli provides prompts that make it easy to record names, places and moments before the details fade.

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Gather different generations' contributions

Use content requests and Rooms where appropriate to bring stories and supporting images together. Each relative keeps control of their individual Vault.

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One family memory inspires another

A grandparent's answer may prompt a cousin's photograph, a sibling's recollection or a recipe nobody had written down. Through shared Rooms and requests, those pieces can become a richer family history while each contributor keeps control over their own private Vault.

Start Your Family Story
Invite family to contributePermission-based RoomsFree to begin
THE STORIES THAT HOLD A FAMILY TOGETHER

Turn shared memories into something
your family can keep.

Bring together the voices, photographs and stories that explain where your family came from—and invite others to add their part.

BEGIN WITH ONE MEMORY

“What story would you love your family to hear again one day?”

A LIVING FAMILY ARCHIVE.
THEIR VOICE

The voice you know by heart.

Give them a way to preserve their familiar voice, favourite stories and little pieces of wisdom for those they love.

REAL FAMILIES. REAL EXPERIENCES.

See what changes when everything that matters has a place.

From preserving stories and future messages to documenting care wishes and important information, families share how Evaheld makes it easier to begin, stay connected and leave something meaningful behind.

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"Your legacy: A gift that lasts forever"

See how families use Evaheld to send meaningful messages, preserve memories and create something their loved ones can return to — and add to — over time.

Partner recognition

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✦Awards & recognition
Winner

University of Sydney Genesis Startup Competition 2022

Recognised for innovation in legacy preservation and advance care planning.
Winner

Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2024

Most Innovative Memorialisation & Care Planning Business 2024 — Social Impact Startup of the Year 2024
Corporate Vision

Evaheld wins Australian Enterprise Awards 2025

Innovation & Advance Care Planning Company 2025 — Service Excellence 2025
Winner

Evaheld wins APAC Insider Business Awards 2025

Most Compassionate Legacy Planning CEO 2025 — Michelle Gomes
Championing Health State Finalist

Telstra Best of Business Awards 2025

Recognised for innovation in healthcare technology and legacy preservation.
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Why is documenting family stories and legacy important for future generations?

Family stories · Multi-generational legacy · Cultural heritage
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Family stories create connection across generations, transmit values and cultural identity, preserve historical perspectives and lived experiences, provide children with roots and belonging, help descendants understand family patterns and characteristics, and ensure that precious memories, wisdom, and heritage don't disappear when current generations pass—transforming families from disconnected individuals into continuous multi-generational narratives.
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What types of family stories should be documented and preserved?

Family narratives · Cultural heritage · Immigration stories
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Comprehensive family documentation includes origin and immigration stories, cultural traditions and their meanings, family values and how they developed, biographical histories of key family members, stories of resilience and overcoming challenges, humorous family anecdotes and personalities, significant family events and milestones, occupational and professional histories, relationship stories and how families formed, and the everyday lived experiences that textbooks miss—creating rich, multi-dimensional family narrative.
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How can families with limited information about their history still create meaningful legacy?

Limited family history · Historical gaps · Adoption
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Families with gaps in historical knowledge can document what they do know however limited, focus on living memory and current generation stories, research available public records and archives, interview oldest living family members urgently, explore DNA testing for ancestry insights, document family culture and traditions even without origin stories, start fresh creating thorough documentation for future generations, and recognise that any preserved information creates more value than assuming complete history is required for worthwhile documentation.
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How should families handle difficult or shameful family history?

Difficult history · Family shame · Abuse
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Difficult family history—criminal behaviour, abuse, addiction, mental illness, discrimination, or shameful events—deserves thoughtful documentation that balances honesty with sensitivity: acknowledge painful truths without glorifying harm, provide historical and social context, document recovery and resilience alongside trauma, protect privacy of living individuals, use staged access for age-appropriate sharing, focus on lessons learned rather than dwelling in shame, and recognise that authentic family complexity serves descendants better than sanitised false perfection.
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How can families document multi-cultural or multi-ethnic heritage effectively?

Multi-cultural heritage · Immigration stories · Cultural identity
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Multi-cultural families should document each cultural heritage stream thoroughly, honour diverse traditions without hierarchy, explain how multiple cultures blended or coexisted, include language preservation when possible, document immigration and integration experiences, address identity navigation across cultures, preserve distinct cultural practices whilst acknowledging hybrid identities, and recognise that multi-cultural heritage represents richness and complexity deserving celebration rather than confusion requiring resolution.
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How can extended family collaborate on family legacy documentation?

Extended family · Collaboration · Family historians
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Extended family collaboration involves designating family historians or coordinators, organising family gatherings focused on storytelling, conducting interviews across multiple family branches, creating shared digital archives accessible to all family members, dividing documentation responsibilities by branch or theme, combining multiple perspectives on shared events, resolving disagreements about facts or interpretations respectfully, and recognising that collaborative multi-voice family narrative creates richer legacy than single-author approach.
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How can families preserve physical artifacts, photographs, and documents?

Photo preservation · Digitisation · Archives
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Preserving physical family materials requires digitising photographs and documents for accessibility and backup, using archival-quality storage for originals, organising and labelling comprehensively, creating multiple digital copies in different locations, identifying people and dates whilst family members still remember, maintaining climate-controlled storage for valuable items, considering professional archiving for fragile materials, and recognising that digital preservation makes materials accessible to extended family whilst protecting irreplaceable originals.
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How does Evaheld support family story and legacy documentation?

Evaheld platform · Family documentation · Collaborative tools
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Evaheld provides family-specific conversation prompts exploring heritage and traditions, collaborative features enabling multi-family-member contributions, photograph and document integration creating comprehensive visual archives, cultural heritage frameworks supporting multi-ethnic documentation, family tree integration connecting stories to relationships, interview templates for elder family member documentation, privacy controls managing sensitive family information, and AI guidance structuring complex multi-generational narratives—all designed to transform scattered family knowledge into organised, preserved, accessible legacy.
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What benefits do future generations gain from documented family stories?

Future generations · Identity formation · Heritage transmission
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Future generations receive identity foundations through understanding family lineage, inherited wisdom from ancestors who faced similar challenges, cultural heritage and traditions that might otherwise be lost, resilience models showing how family survived difficulties, sense of belonging to multi-generational narrative, normalisation of struggles through knowing ancestors faced them too, values transmission shaping character development, and profound validation that their family story mattered enough to preserve carefully across generations.
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How can families ensure their documented legacy remains accessible for centuries?

Digital preservation · Long-term storage · Legacy sustainability
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Long-term legacy preservation requires multiple digital backup strategies across platforms, periodic format updates as technology evolves, distributing copies across family members preventing single-point failure, using cloud services with longevity expectations, maintaining both digital and selected physical formats, creating institutional partnerships with archives or historical societies when appropriate, establishing family stewardship succession plans, and recognising that active multi-generational maintenance rather than passive storage ensures perpetual accessibility.
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Who is Evaheld actually for?

Legacy Planning · Family Vault · Memory Preservation
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Evaheld is for anyone who wants clarity about their legacy — individuals, families, carers, and adult children planning ahead. It suits every life stage, from young adults organising life admin to older Australians recording stories, care directives and estate documents in one secure, private vault.
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Who should use a digital legacy vault and when should i start?

digital legacy vault · when to start legacy planning · legacy planning for families
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Everyone should use a Digital Legacy Vault, regardless of age. The best time to start is now.
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