A Family Tree of Veterans and the Memory of War

Gather documents and photos

Medals, letters from the front, wartime photographs, recorded recollections, digitize them before they are lost. These materials make the memory of a veteran concrete and trustworthy.

Record the stories

If the veteran is still living, record their accounts in their own voice, it is priceless. If not, gather the family's stories: where they fought, how they came home, how they are remembered. Through stories the hero stays alive in memory.

Link them into the tree

Place the veteran in the family tree beside their children, grandchildren and kin. That way descendants see their hero not in a textbook, but in their own genealogy, in their rightful place in the family.

Pass the memory on

A tree with a QR code and memory pages is available to future generations. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren will come to know their frontline soldier through the family's living stories, not from dry lines of text.

• Digitize medals, letters and photos.
• Record the stories while they are remembered.
• Place the hero in the family tree.
• Pass the memory on to descendants.