What is my-family-story?

My Family Story is an interactive family tree app that treats your family history as a story you explore across time, rather than a plain chart. A timeline scrubber at the bottom lets you drag through the years and watch family members appear as they are born, age through photos from their era, marry, and pass on. Clicking a person opens a detail card with their family links, a short biography, and a personal life timeline that retells the whole tree from their point of view. World events like wars or moon landings appear along the timeline too, so you can see how history brushed against the family. The whole app works in both English and Hebrew, with a language toggle that switches every name, story, and event at once. The project ships with a fictional demo family, the Adlers, spanning from 1903 to today, so you can try the features before adding your own relatives. It is built as a single HTML page plus its scripts and photos, so there is no build step, no install, and no account needed. Anyone can edit by default, adding people, photos, and short written moments about their lives, and nothing is shared with others until the changes are saved. Photos are added by simply dragging them onto the app, with a built in cropping tool for each person's portrait at different life stages. Family stories that do not have an exact date, called moments, can be placed between two known events instead, such as somewhere between a wedding and a move to another city. The app is designed to be used together with Claude or similar AI tools that can read and write the project's files. Instead of filling in one field at a time by hand, you can hand Claude a messy list of names and ages, a batch of scanned photos, or a transcript of a recorded family interview, and it organizes the raw material into the tree, connecting relationships and estimating missing years. This makes it well suited for family evenings where relatives gather to fill in the tree together, or for a school project where a child collects family stories from relatives.