Preserve Your Story.
Honor The Legacy.
One link. One tap. One story — preserved forever as a published Italian American heritage narrative.
Free to use · No app download required · Built for Italian American families
From a voice to a legacy
Simple enough for any age
One question in large text. One button to record. Designed for users 80+ — no passwords, no apps, no confusion.
AI transforms a voice into a story
Deepgram transcribes the recording. Claude Sonnet writes a magazine-quality narrative, pull quote, themes, and sourced photography.
Published to a living archive
Each story becomes a permanent part of the Italian American Heritage Archive — shareable by link, embeddable anywhere, available as structured data.
Recent Stories
“From the ancient hills of Sersale to the steel and stone of Chicago, this family carried the dreams of five centuries across an ocean, building an American legacy one generation at a time.”
Told by Chad Kinney
Emilia-Romagna, Calabria, Campania
“Born nameless in a Bologna orphanage in 1878, Richard Alghini rose from abandonment to build a pasta empire that supplied the U.S. Army and Campbell's Soup, only to lose it all to organized crime before returning to die in the city of his birth.”
Told by Frank Scalise
Emilia-Romagna
“She was known to be a very beloved and generous person who would do anything for family and friends.”
Told by Frank Scalise
Emilia-Romagna
Three steps to a published story
An organizer picks a question
Browse 31+ culturally crafted Italian American prompts — about food, immigration, family, faith, neighborhood, and language. Copy a unique recording link.
Send the link, hear the story
Text or email the link to a family elder. They tap it, see one large question, and tap Record. No account, no app, no barrier between them and their story.
AI preserves it forever
Our Heritage Preserver tool transcribes the recording and transforms it into a rich Heritage Story — with photos, themes, pull quote, and location data — published to the Italian American Heritage Archive.
Every story told now is a
story saved forever.
The generation that remembers the Sunday dinners, the neighborhoods, the voyage to America — they're here now. The Italian American Heritage Archive makes it easy to capture their stories before they're gone.