Share Your Memories
Use our guided ChatGPT interview to preserve stories about parents, grandparents, relatives, places and family life.
Start a Family InterviewShare a piece of our family story
Your photographs, letters and documents are welcome—even if you only want them kept in my family archive.
Nothing you send will go on the website without your permission. Sharing a file is not permission to publish it.
- Email me first. Tell me a little about what you’d like to share; no attachments are needed.
- I’ll send a private upload link and password. You won’t need a Google or Synology account.
- Upload copies and share what you know. Email any names, dates, places or stories that go with the files, along with any limits on sharing them.
Or email iharjo@hotmail.com. Please keep your originals. I’ll review the submissions before adding anything to the archive or asking about sharing it on the website.
Material we would like to preserve
- Old family photographs and albums
- Letters and postcards
- Family Bibles and handwritten notes
- Birth, marriage, and death records
- Newspaper clippings and obituaries
- Property, military, school, and church records
- Home movies and audio recordings
- Written family histories
- Stories remembered by older relatives
- Names of people in unidentified photographs
- Corrections to names, dates, or relationships
- Research notes and source information
Already on Facebook?
You can also join the Hilpert Family History Facebook group to share discoveries, ask questions, help identify photographs, and connect with other descendants.
You can also join the Hilpert Family History Facebook group to share discoveries, ask questions, help identify photographs, and connect with other descendants.
What happens to contributed material?
After reviewing your files, I’ll keep accepted copies with their source and the details you’ve shared. You can choose to keep them just in my family archive. I’ll ask for your permission before publishing them on the website and keep a record of your sharing preferences.