A private family archive

Every family has a story.
Keep it alive.

Remembranch is a private, wiki-style family tree. Every relative — living and remembered — gets a page your whole family writes together. Recipes, war stories, nicknames, the photo no one could name anymore.

Private by design. Only your invited family can ever see it.

Three generations of a family sharing a meal at a sunlit kitchen table

Why Remembranch

When a grandparent dies, a library burns down.

The recipes. The war stories. The nicknames. The photograph nobody can identify anymore. Most of it fades within two generations — not because nobody cared, but because nobody wrote it down together.

Remembranch is where a family writes it all down, together. One private space. One tree. One page per person, edited by anyone who remembers. Built to outlive you — your great-grandchildren will read this.

How it works

A living archive, not a genealogy project.

  1. 01

    Plant the tree

    Add yourself, your parents, and their parents. It takes ten minutes to see three generations on the page.

  2. 02

    Invite the family

    Send one link. Cousins, aunts, in-laws — each joins your private family space. Nobody else can see it.

  3. 03

    Write it down, together

    Any relative can edit any profile. Every change is attributed and version-safe, so nothing is ever lost.

  4. 04

    Keep it forever

    Photos, voice notes, the story behind the nickname. It stays here for the great-grandchildren.

A sample page

What a person's page looks like.

Wikipedia-style, but only your family can see it — and only your family can write it.

Lötter line · Grandfather

Piet Lötter

"Oupa Piet" · 1939 – 2022 · Kroonstad legend

Biography

Husband, father, grandfather, bobaas-storyteller, pigeon fancier, Blou Bulle supporter and Kroonstad legend. Sixty years married to his Skat. He worked on the South African Railways and knew every small station and steam locomotive by heart. He lived for his pigeons, motorsport (especially Michael Schumacher), the Landbouweekblad, and Elvis.

He believed true wealth was family and the love between them — a lesson he passed on through stoepstories his grandchildren will one day tell their own children.

Stories & memories

"Oupa Piet het nie aardse skatte bymekaar gemaak nie, maar eerder die wêreld met skatte gelos — sy trots, sy kinders en sy stories wat ons vir altyd sal koester."

Added by Tiaan · July 2026

"My Skat … 60 jaar — en dan een oggend word ek alleen, sonder jou, wakker en dis so seer. Ek mis jou."

Added by Jou Skat · July 2026
Last edited by Janke · 2 days ago12 revisionsEdit this page

Pricing

One plan per family, not per person.

Invite every cousin. The price doesn't change.

The Sapling

Start your tree today

Free
  • Up to 25 people
  • 500 photos
  • Invite your whole family
  • Wiki-style edit history
Most families choose this

The Family

For an active family archive

R99/ month

or R950 / year

  • Unlimited people & photos
  • Voice recordings
  • Guided memory prompts
  • Admin approvals on sensitive pages

The Heirloom

Built to outlive you

R4 950one-time
  • Everything in The Family, forever
  • Printable family book (PDF)
  • Priority preservation storage
  • Named in the family archive footer

Questions

Answered plainly.

Who can see our tree?
Only invited members. Your family archive is private by default and never indexed, shared, or shown to anyone outside the family.
What happens if I stop paying?
Your archive stays read-only — nothing is ever deleted. The Heirloom plan keeps it active forever, no matter what.
Can anyone in the family edit?
Yes. Every relative can add stories, correct dates, and upload photos. Every change is attributed and reversible.
What about living relatives?
Living people get minimal profiles by default. Each person controls their own page and what appears on it.
Can we get it as a book?
The Heirloom plan includes a printable family book — a beautifully typeset PDF of your whole archive, ready to print and pass on.

Your great-grandchildren
will read this.

Ten minutes today. Three generations on the page. A record that keeps growing for the next hundred years.

Free forever for up to 25 people · No credit card required