Four minutes to open the book. The rest is done together.
You do not have to know everything, nor write everything. Your job is to open the door and to review.
The four stages
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1. The book
A name, a year of birth, a year of death if there is one. Nothing else is required. You can start while the person is alive — many do, and it is the best time.
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2. The relatives
You send a link, or a single family link everyone shares. Nobody creates an account, nobody installs anything. A 78-year-old cousin opens the link on his phone and writes.
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3. The questions
We ask the questions for them, in waves of five. "What did her kitchen smell like?" "What did he say when he was proud?" Each answers what they know and skips the rest.
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4. The review
Everything that arrives passes through you. You accept, you correct, you set aside. Nothing is published behind anyone's back — and whoever wrote it can withdraw their own submission.
What we get asked at this stage
What if nobody answers?
That is the commonest outcome on a first attempt, and it is exactly why the questions exist. A link saying "tell us something" gets roughly one answer in ten; the same link asking a precise question gets six.
Can I write it alone?
Yes. Many start alone and invite others later, once there is something to read. That is often the better method: people rally around a book that has started rather than a blank page.
Start with one question. Just one.
Creating the book is free and takes four minutes. Then you invite whoever you like — with no account for them to create.
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