Preserve what matters most
Family Keepsakes
Beautifully crafted photo books that bring your family's history to life — and last for generations.
A Story Worth Keeping
Your family's history deserves more than a folder of scanned documents or a collection of photographs gathering dust in a drawer. We take the records, images, and places that define your family's story and turn them into something you can hold, share, and pass down.
Each Family Keepsake is a professionally compiled photo book that is built around your family's specific history, illustrated with photographs of meaningful places and original documents, and accompanied by detailed, thoughtful descriptions that give every image its proper context.
Whether it is a record of the places your ancestors called home, a visual archive of the documents that trace your lineage, or a combination of both. The result is something genuinely unique to your family.
What we can make for you
Two Types of Keepsake
Places Photo Book
The landscapes, buildings, and locations your family called home
We visit the farms, villages, kirkyards, and landmarks connected to your family and photograph them as they stand today. Each photograph is paired with a detailed description of the history of the place, its connection to your family, and what life there might have looked like for your ancestors. The result is a beautifully presented record of the places that shaped your family, long before you were born.
Documents Photo Book
The records, certificates, and papers that tell your family's story
Birth certificates, marriage records, census entries, military papers, emigration documents, the official records of a life are often the most moving. We gather, photograph, and present these documents in a carefully designed book, with each entry accompanied by a plain-English description of what it tells us and why it matters. No genealogical jargon, just the story, clearly told.
A gift for the ages
The Keepsake as a Gift
A Family Keepsake makes one of the most personal and lasting gifts imaginable. For a significant birthday, a wedding, a golden anniversary, or a family reunion. Presenting someone with a beautifully bound book of their own family's history is something they will return to for the rest of their lives.
Imagine it on the table at a milestone birthday dinner, or passed around at a family gathering with each person finding their own branch of the tree, their own connection to the places and faces inside. It is the kind of gift that starts conversations, unlocks memories, and brings generations together.
We can produce multiple copies so that every branch of the family has one of their own, and we offer a gift presentation option for those who want to give it as a surprise on the day.
How it works
From Research to Finished Book
Share Your Story
Tell us what you know — the names, places, and documents you already have, and the gaps you would love to fill. We will discuss what kind of keepsake would suit your family best.
We Do the Groundwork
We research, visit locations, access archives, and gather the photographs and documents that will form the heart of your book. We keep you involved throughout.
We Write the Descriptions
Every photograph and document is given a detailed, carefully written description — placing it in its historical context and explaining its significance to your family's story.
Your Book is Printed
We compile everything into a professionally designed and printed photo book, finished to a standard that does justice to the story inside. Additional copies can be ordered for other family members.
“A photograph of the house your grandmother grew up in, with the story of her life written beneath it, is not a book. That is a treasure.”
The Heritage Hunter
A Note on Lead Times
Because every Family Keepsake is researched, compiled, and written for each family, with in-person visits to archives, locations, and record offices, each one takes time to do properly. Our typical lead time is two to three months from the point of commission to a finished book in your hands.
We think that is entirely worth the wait, and we hope you will too. If you have a specific occasion in mind, a birthday, a wedding, a reunion, do get in touch as early as you can and we will do our best to work around your timeline.
Pricing
Family Keepsakes begin from £350.
Create Your Family Keepsake
Get in touch and tell us about your family. We will help you decide what kind of keepsake would suit you best.
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