Guide
Preserve family
stories.
Practical questions, ideas and guides to preserve your family's voices, photos and memories.
Questions · 6 min read
25 questions for Dede and Nine before it's too late
A simple question catalogue for childhood, village, wedding, migration and life lessons.
Voice · 5 min read
How do you preserve your grandparents' voices?
Why original voice messages are more valuable than AI voices or written-down texts.
Photos · 5 min read
What to do with old family photos?
How old wedding pictures, village houses and family photos get back their names, places and stories.
Guide · 7 min read
Preserving family history: how a private memory archive emerges
From the first WhatsApp question to the timeline: how individual memories grow into a family archive.
Migration · 6 min read
Documenting migration from Turkey — what to preserve?
From arrival at the train station to the first Bayram in Germany: how to capture your parents' and grandparents' migration story.
Legacy · 5 min read
Capture legacy stories — before they're just anecdotes
Values, sentences and life rules passed on in the family are more fragile than they seem. How to preserve them for the long run.
Bayram · 4 min read
Capture Bayram memories — before the family recipe disappears
Holidays are dense memory anchors. How to document Bayram, Ramazan and family recipes before they're lost.
Guide · 5 min read
Prepare a grandparents interview — what to know before you ask
Concrete guide for family interviews: clear setting, the right questions, allow silence, follow the person.
Home · 4 min read
Preserve Anatolian village life — before the köy is just a name
Document six layers of village life — architecture, economy, religion, relationships, conflicts and sensory impressions.
Identity · 5 min read
Second generation in Germany — what to preserve, what to let go?
The second generation has its own migration story. How to capture your double identity — for your children.
Wedding · 5 min read
Document Turkish wedding traditions — Henna, Düğün, generational knowledge
Söz, Nişan, Kına Gecesi, Düğün — capture the choreography of a Turkish wedding as a family archive.
Recipes · 4 min read
Collect Dede's and Nine's recipes as audio — before the family recipe dies
Why family recipes work better as voice messages than as text — and which ones must be recorded.
Family · 4 min read
Capture mother-daughter stories — Anne-Kız relationships across generations
Three generations, three narratives — how to preserve the finest layer in the family archive.
Family · 4 min read
Capture father-son lessons — what Baba wanted to pass on
Turkish fathers say important sentences only once. How to ask directly — without them dodging.
Identity · 4 min read
Homesickness and two homelands — how to capture the dual feeling
Homesickness isn't weakness — it's belonging. How to tell the dual sense of home as a family story.
Guide · 5 min read
Sort family photos — a pragmatic step-by-step guide
Five steps from drawer chaos to a sorted family archive with names, places and voice messages.
Tradition · 4 min read
Preserve religious rituals — without becoming dogmatic
Capture prayers, suras, sayings, rituals as voice messages — religiously and culturally cleanly separated.
Children · 4 min read
Show children family history — without lectures, with experience
Three activities for children that anchor family history playfully.
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