Meet your
archivist.
Software can organize. It can't sit with your mother and ask the right question at the right moment. That's why every Archive Year comes with a real person — the archivist who meets you in month one, scans what you send, curates your archive, and knows your family by name.
The work no app
can copy.
Your archivist is a trained professional who works alongside you all year — not a data-entry service, a relationship. Included in every Archive Year:
- A live, one-on-one concierge session in your first month — a real person who sets up your archive with you, answers every question, and plans what to send first.
- Every envelope and box you send, opened on camera, scanned at archival quality, and returned — the shoeboxes you've been meaning to get to for years, handled by someone who does this for a living.
- Thoughtful curation as the archive grows — names, dates, and stories attached, so browsing feels like discovery, not a filing cabinet.
- The questions nobody thought to ask. Your archivist reviews what arrives and flags the gaps: the unnamed faces, the trip with no story, the person who should be interviewed while there's time.
- Family onboarding — getting everyone set up, showing them what's already there, making the technology feel effortless.
- An ongoing relationship. Your archivist gets to know your family, your gaps, your priorities — and designs your Lockbox engraving with you before Delivery Day.
- Legacy planning. When you're ready, your archivist records your instructions for who should receive the Lockbox as part of your estate or legacy plan — so it reaches the family member you choose.
The first conversation is free.
Thirty minutes with Geoff — about your family's memories, what the Archive Year includes, or just what feels possible. No pitch, no pressure.
Book a free 30-min call →Or write to geoff@memoresse.com
When your family wants more.
Scanning, curation, and your month-one concierge session and first envelope are already inside your $99 a month. Everything beyond it is à la carte — always a fixed price agreed before we begin, never hourly, never a surprise on the invoice.
Oral history interviews
A trained interviewer sits with the people who hold the stories — a grandparent, a parent, a great-aunt — and asks the questions that unlock them. Recorded, transcribed, and preserved in the archive.
Family films
A crafted short film from your archive — a life, a marriage, a family's year — edited by a human who knows the story, ready for an anniversary, a memorial, or a milestone birthday.
Printed heirloom books
The archive, or one thread of it, as a beautifully printed book — the photos and the stories in your family's own words. No QR codes, no app required, nothing that dies with a company.
Estate-scale preservation
Some families have more than boxes — a house of letters, military records, genealogy lines to research, an estate to document. Your archivist scopes it personally, at a fixed project price.
Memories coaching sessions
A guided conversation with a trained Memories Coach, built around a memory from your own archive. Meaning-making, not therapy — every "I feel" is yours, spoken by you, kept in your words.
Memory envelopes & boxes
Your first envelope is included in month one. After that — and after Delivery Day, for as long as you like — order another envelope for prints, or a memory box for albums, slides, film, tapes, and letters, at a modest fixed price. Every original comes home.
From first call to
family archive.
A free 30-minute conversation
We start with a call — no pitch, no pressure. You tell us about your family, what you're trying to preserve, and what you're most worried about losing. We listen, ask questions, and figure out together what makes sense.
A personal plan
Every family is different. Your archivist puts together a simple plan — what goes in your first envelope, what we'll work on first, and what to expect month by month. No jargon, no surprises.
The year — with you, not just for you
Your envelope goes out and comes home, every original with it — and when you're ready to send more, another envelope or a box is a modest fixed price away. All year you watch the archive grow in the app. You stay connected to the material, the stories, the people — never handed a finished product you don't recognize.
Delivery Day — and whatever comes next
At month twelve your Lockbox comes home — organized, annotated, engraved, ready to explore. Your family can browse, add to it, and share from it. And your archivist stays available for whatever comes next — including recording your instructions for who should receive the Lockbox as part of your estate or legacy plan.
The first conversation
is always free.
Thirty minutes with Geoff — about your family's memories, the Archive Year, the Lockbox, or just what feels possible. No script. No obligation.
Prefer email? Write to geoff@memoresse.com