Storied.com: Books to treasure
At Storied newspapers are the cornerstone record collection – complementing the company remit, to encourage people to tell and share the stories of their families. Storied launched last year at Rootstech 2023, enlisting AI to help generate family stories based on the information added to the website by the user. It is entirely possible to write your own family stories from scratch too. The past year has seen a novel turn of events at Storied – as customers have repeatedly asked for the ability to create printed books of the family stories they create on Storied.com – and they now offer US customers the ability to do so. This is a project of which Storied.com CEO Kendall Hulet is particularly proud and to which he has a personal connection: ‘My mother passed away recently. And I created a group on Storied, and anyone in our family could contribute a story or a memory about her. I got 65 contributions from 35 people in one week. They’re very cool; some of them are long, some of them are short. Some have photos, some don’t. They are all beautiful little tributes about my Mom.’ Kendall explains further : ‘One thing that is really neat [about the Storied printed books that users create] is that there is a QR code on each page. Scan the QR code and you can see more photos, listen to audio, and read the comments’ – all found back on the Storied.com web page for that story. ‘People love it,’ adds Kendall – and many people have been creating family recipe books with Storied. Storied.com