I would give a great deal for a book about my great-great-grandfather.

Nobody wrote one. For most of history, families kept their stories by telling them, at the table and to the children, until the children told them in turn. That habit has thinned. What we write about ourselves now goes into emails, posts and feeds, made to be read once and scrolled past, and very little of it will reach anyone a hundred years from now.

I wanted my own great-great-grandchild to have the book I don't. For years that stayed an idea, because building something this size took more time than I had. Then AI tools changed the arithmetic: one person could build what used to need a team. So I built it, for my family first.

It turned out to be a good tool, and keeping it to ourselves seemed a waste. That is the whole reason it is open to everyone.

Who we are

HandedDown is me, Daniel Boggs, and my wife, Savannah. I build it. She helps run it, and as it grows she will be one of the people who answers when you write to us.

Not built for profit

Everyone has bills to pay. Once ours are paid, I would rather HandedDown reach more families than earn us more money, so as support grows, our margin shrinks. No ads, and your family's information is never sold.

And if one day we are not here, your family's stories should not depend on us. The promise explains how.