A Legacy That Cannot Be Taken
We honor every ancestor by name — beginning with our African American and Pan-African forebears and reaching to every lineage of humankind — and weave their stories into a permanent, public archive that descendants will trust for generations.
Preserving the legacy. Honoring the lineage. Held under your hand alone — and placed beyond loss.
Your ancestors are not a product. They are yours to hold — forever.
IPFS-archived — featured memorials are pinned to our own IPFS node with publicly verifiable CIDs on the open IPFS network. See the sample memorial for a live example.
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One archive, one path — two doors in.
Whether you are honoring someone who has passed or keeping your own life for those who come after, you climb the same four tiers: begin free, then keep what matters — paid once, never rented.
Raise a Memorial
Honor a name in the public archive — their story, their portrait, their voice — held with dignity and preserved on the open network.
Keep a Living Legacy
Capture your days freely in your own journal, then seal your own life — a dollar a moment — for the people who will inherit them.
900+ ancestors honored in the public archive
Every name is reviewed by a person, published with dignity, and pinned to the open network with a proof anyone can verify. These are real lives, already kept:
The Root of Us All
Africa is the cradle of humankind. In the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors.
We begin at the origin of us all. From that single root, every family and every lineage of humanity is welcomed home — remembered by name, honored without end.
What sets the work apart
Not a smaller version of the record-giants — a different thing entirely, on ground they cannot take.
An institution, not a database
Built to honor the named and recover the unnamed — every family of humankind.
Held under your hand alone
No cloud, no server ever sees what you keep. Sealed by a passphrase only you hold.
The archive that still breathes
We capture the living before the memory passes — not only the records of the dead.
Placed beyond loss
Once sealed, yours forever, verifiable on the open network. No paywall on your own kin.
You are a steward, not a user
A steward of a line — keeping what was given, for those who come after.
Living Legacy
Documenting your own life as it happens?
For founders, creators, and builders. Capture your days freely in your own private journal, then keep any moment forever for a single dollar — pinned to the open network, provably yours. No subscription. See how it works.
— In Preparation —
An offering the institution is preparing: AI-assisted ancestor research, conducted under editorial discipline, free for any family.