Keep the stories that matter — in the voices of the people who lived them.
Every family has a few people who remember everything — and a moment, usually too late, when nobody does.
ARC is a private archive built around that. It is not a form to fill in. It is an archivist that sits with one person at a time, asks a good question, listens to the answer, and keeps it — the recording, the photograph, the name, the date, and how they are all connected.
One question at a time, unhurried. The archivist works strictly from what has actually been said — it never invents a detail or puts words in someone's mouth. If it doesn't know, it asks. That is the whole discipline.
Photographs are read for the people in them, so the same grandmother is recognised across sixty years of pictures. Once you've named someone, you're never asked again.
Ancestors are held with the documents that prove them — birth and marriage records, gravestones, scans from the archives — attached to the person, not filed in a folder somewhere.
Your life drawn as a grid of weeks: one row per year, childhood through to this week. Milestones land on it as you talk about them. You can watch one fill in without signing in at all.
Your stories stay private to your family. An archive is shared by invitation — no public profiles, nothing indexed, nothing sold.