Do you want a new space to share your family history?
Imagine having a beautiful space to share your family stories, where the memories you cherish can be proudly displayed. A place that exudes warmth and nostalgia, inspiring conversations and laughter. Let us help you create that space. Your family’s tale is unique and deserves to be told in a setting that honours its significance. With a little bit of creativity and some thoughtful touches, we can transform any ordinary space into a treasure trove of memories that will pass down for generations to come. Let’s embark on this journey together and make your storytelling dreams a reality!
Let me introduce you to the latest next generation genealogy software, WeAre […] – a place to unshackle your family history.
What is WeAre [...]
The WeAre.xyz website offers an Interactive Archive Builder, a tool designed to showcase family history in an engaging and interactive manner. Here’s a summary of its key features:
Family and Individual Section Trees: Each family surname and individual has its own automatically generated section complete with a fully interactive tree. This tree illuminates a specific family’s or individual’s relationship to those around them.
Customizable Sub Trees: Within your stories, you can create and insert custom trees to explain how all the individuals you are describing are related. For example, showing just parents and their children when introducing a generation.
Interactive Tree Builder and Management Technology: This underpins your archive and is designed to be powerful and flexible, with more features planned for the future.
Complete Feature List:
- Manual tree builder and editor
- Option for autosite generation from GEDCOM import
- Multiple-tree website creation
- Family surname parental/maternal pyramid site map
- Sections: Family Surname and Individual
- Auto-generated section trees
- Sub-sections: Media, Albums, Documents, Occasions, Places, and Artefacts
- Full search and bookmarking
- Inline WYSIWYG webpage editor
- Sub-tree creator
- Sources and citations
- External and internal linking
- Semi-automated content tagging
- Image cropping and rotation
Social Functionality: It includes an ‘Ask Family button for questions relating to any content item, comments, user-centric login, degrees of collaboration settings, notifications, and a share button on all public content.
Privacy: It offers optional full privacy for the user and invited family. Individual items may be marked public or private. Individual sections and tree tiles for living persons are always obscured.
Backup and Printed Output: It provides printer formatting and one-click comprehensive content download, including print-ready PDFs.
This tool is designed to make family history more engaging and accessible, with a focus on interactivity and user-friendly features.
Join the new course 'Unlock Ancestral Storytelling'
Seven Keys to Unlock your Family History
In each module of the course, you will gain access to lessons, video tutorials, downloadable templates, reflective activities, case studies, and a resource library of extra videos and stories.
Here are your seven keys to unlocking ancestral storytelling:
Key 1: Harvest your Ancestral Stories
Key 2: Explore the World of WeAre […]
Key 3: Develop your own WeAre Family Tree
Key 4: Fine-tune your WeAre archive
Key 5: Master the Interactive Archive builder
Key 6: Design and create your Story collections
Key 7: Share your Stories
Key 1: Harvest your Ancestral Stories
In this module, you’ll learn how to gather and organise your family’s stories. We’ll guide you on how to move from outdated technology and paper files and inspire your family with a living online archive. You’ll explore the different types of family history stories, from individual ancestor profiles to full family tree collections of stories about all of your ancestors. You’ll find tools and templates to help you discover, collect, and sort your existing family stories, as well as how to develop a plan for your story collections.
Key 2: Explore the World of WeAre
This module introduces you to the new software, WeAre.xyz. You’ll explore its features and learn how to use it for your storytelling. You’ll discover how to create interactive family trees, customise sub-trees, and share your ancestral stories in a meaningful, engaging, and collaborative manner. You’ll also learn how to invite family members to contribute to your storytelling.
Key 3: Develop your own WeAre Family Tree
In this module, you’ll learn how to develop your own interactive family tree using WeAre.xyz. You’ll learn how to setup your account, import your existing family tree data, add new individuals, and update information for each person. You’ll also learn how to navigate the sample family tree to gain a better understanding of WeAre’s functions and tools.
Key 4: Fine-tune your WeAre archive
This module will guide you on how to fine-tune your WeAre archive. You’ll learn how to design your site and add and edit details for each individual in your tree. You’ll also learn how to replace or add new profile pictures for individuals, making your family tree more visually appealing and personalised. You’ll also learn how to add photos and documents to bring your tree to life.
Key 5: Master the Interactive Archive builder
In this module, you’ll master the use of the Interactive Archive Builder in WeAre.xyz. You’ll learn how to create content blocks, add text and images, create sub-trees, and format your stories. You’ll also learn how to publish your stories, making them available for your family members to view and contribute to. You’ll also learn how to tag your stories to make them easily accessible.
Key 6: Design and create your Story collections
This module will guide you on how to design and create your story collections. You’ll learn how to use the various features of WeAre.xyz to create a kaleidoscope of captivating documents, artefacts, photos, videos, and stories in many different formats. You’ll learn how to create interactive documents, story articles, and a series of blog posts about your stories.
Key 7: Share your Stories
In the final module, you’ll learn how to share your stories with others. You’ll learn how to make your stories public or private and how to invite family members to view and contribute to them. You’ll also learn how to print out various parts of your tree in print-ready PDFs, ensuring that your family history is preserved and shared in a meaningful way.