Ruth Calloway
1921–2004 · told by her daughter June
Your family's photos are already digitized, but scattered. We wrap them into an experience everyone can visit.
Greenjar takes the photos, letters and keepsakes you've already scanned or photographed, works out who is in them and roughly when, and builds a private archive in one of three experiences you choose: a family tree, a timeline or a life story. Starting in Atlanta.
Christmas: book by December 1 for delivery and a family reveal before December 23.
Phone photo of the print
After cleanup
From a messy folder to a family archive in about three weeks.
You talk to a person twice, at the start and at the reveal. Everything in between is done for you.
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Archive Review
Share your folder link when you book. I look through it first, then we talk about what's there and what you want it for. You get a written summary and a fixed quote within two days.
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Cleanup and catalog
Photos are straightened, cropped and color-corrected, duplicates are flagged, and each one gets names, a date range and the reason for it.
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Reveal and Review
I walk the family through the finished archive. We name the faces nobody remembered while everyone is on the call.
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The family keeps adding
Relatives answer "Who is this?" questions and add memories from their phones. You can download everything at any time.
What you'll need
Your photos need to be digital before we start.
Greenjar doesn't scan prints yet. Every archive starts from one of these two places.
Option 1
They're already online
Photos that were scanned or taken digitally and saved somewhere you can share a link to.
- Dropbox, Google Drive or iCloud
- Google Photos or an old Facebook album
- CDs or a hard drive from an earlier scanning project
Option 2
You photograph the prints
Good phone photos of each print work well. An iPhone or similar is enough if you take care with each shot.
- Shoot straight down, with the whole print in the frame
- Use soft daylight, flash off, no glare
- Leave a little background showing around the edges
Have boxes of prints and no time to photograph them? Send them to a bulk scanning service first, for roughly $0.12 to $0.30 a photo, and we'll start from the files they send back.
Example archive
Choose one of three experiences.
Your archive is built around the one that fits your family: who is in it, when it happened, or one person's story. Try each with the Calloways, a sample family of four generations.
Sample data. The Calloways are a fictional family, and these photos were generated for this demo. Real archives use your family's own photos.
A real archive
One shoebox scrapbook, three seasons, every page dated and filed.
This is my own high school show choir scrapbook from 1985 to 1988, rebuilt with the same process. Clippings, tickets, programs and photos are sorted by season, and the pages with no printed date were placed by their costume color or their neighbors in the book.
- 146pages restored and captioned
- 3seasons, plus an encore
- 14undated pages placed by context
Help identify
Every archive has photos nobody can name. Relatives solve them from their phones.
Unknown faces go into a short queue. Invited family tap an answer, and each answer is shown with who gave it, so nothing gets guessed into the record.
Who is this?
Studio portrait, about 1950–1954. Found loose in Ruth's album.
Dale said "Aunt Bea" two days ago. One more answer confirms it.
Founding prices for the first five families.
Packages are priced by unique photos, counted after duplicates are removed. In exchange for the founding price, you agree to a short testimonial and let me show before-and-after examples.
One Box
Up to 250 photos
$295$495
- Cleanup and duplicate removal
- Names, dates and places
- Private archive site, 1 year
- Reveal and Review call
Most families
Family Archive
Up to 1,000 photos
$895$1,495
- Everything in One Box
- Family tree and timeline views
- "Who is this?" invites for relatives
- Captions and stories you dictate
Legacy
Up to 3,000 photos
$3,500
- Everything in Family Archive
- A life-story view for one person or couple
- Memorial or reunion slideshow
- Photo book layout
Archive Review
$95$150
The 1-hour Zoom review comes first for every package. The fee is credited in full if you book within 14 days.
Book a reviewLetters, clippings and keepsakes
Added anytime and sorted by date or by where they came from. $2 per item; handwritten pages transcribed for $5.
Extra photos
Beyond a package limit, $1 per photo.
Hosting after year one
$99 a year, or download everything and host it yourself.
Your photos stay yours, and stay private.
Invite only
The archive is private. You decide which relatives can see it.
Originals untouched
Edits are made on copies. Your original files never change.
No lock-in
Download the whole archive, photos and captions, whenever you want.
Deleted after delivery
My working copies are deleted 30 days after your archive is delivered.
Please know before you share: to build your archive, I will open, view and work with every file you send, including any letters or documents. They're used only for your archive. Nothing is shared or used in examples without your written permission, and the AI tools that help with cleanup and dating work on copies, never your originals.
Christmas is eight weeks away. Start with a one-hour review.
Tell me where your photos are and roughly how many. I'll reply within a day to set up the Zoom call.
Digital photos only for now: files already online, or good phone photos of your prints. See what you'll need.
Atlanta first, and nationwide in 2027. The calls are on Zoom, so distance doesn't matter for the review.
Five founding spots, then regular prices.