Ancestry Alternatives for Recording Oral Histories
Ancestry is the best known platform for family trees, but recording oral history interviews requires audio, transcripts, and story organization. Here are alternatives focused on storytelling.
VoiceHistory
VoiceHistory helps families record interviews, generate transcripts, and organize stories into a keepsake book. It is built for preserving voices, not just dates.
Traditional voice recording tools
You can record interviews with a phone or recorder, but it is hard to organize the stories without transcription and structure.
Choosing the right tool
If your focus is genealogy research and DNA, Ancestry is a strong option. If your focus is preserving spoken stories, use an oral history tool like VoiceHistory.
Try the oral history app and then turn your interviews into a family history book.
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