Oak Tree Memories

Come discover something wonderful
about the people you love.

Every family already possesses extraordinary wealth.
Most of us simply don't think of it that way.

The way your daughter says a word wrong,
so wrong, and so perfectly, that no one corrects her anymore.

The nickname nobody remembers the origin of,
that everyone still uses.

The recipe two people in your family
will each swear they make correctly.

The dent in the dining room table
that comes with its own story, told every single time.

The photograph where everyone is laughing,
and no one quite remembers what was so funny —
just that it was.

These aren't just things that happened.
They're proof that a family is alive.

Five children on a beach in summer

Alan, David, Ben, Lisa, and Carl. South Padre Island, Texas. c. 1967.

Hands folding pastry dough around fresh berries

Wendy Davis. Making something worth remembering. Austin, Texas.

Your family has things like this too.
Things worth keeping. Things worth sharing.
Things that deserve more than a drawer or a hard drive.

Stanley Schoenbaum as a young child with his parents Morris and Essie

Stanley Schoenbaum with his parents Morris and Essie.
Richmond, Virginia. c. 1927.

A handwritten granola recipe pinned to a kitchen bulletin board

Jennie Schoenbaum's granola recipe.
From her kitchen bulletin board in San Antonio.

Ordinary moments become family history quietly,
without asking permission, long before anyone
notices it's happening.

The way she says that word wrong won't last.
One day, without anyone noticing exactly when,
she'll just say it right.

The teenager who still, for now, tells you everything
will, at some point, stop telling you everything.
Not out of any falling out. Just growing up.

The grandparent who still remembers every word
of the story won't always be the one telling it.
Someday, that job quietly passes to whoever
was listening closely enough.

Oak Tree exists to make it easier to notice,
preserve, and share these moments
while they're still close.

What is Oak Tree?

Your family builds the library.
Oak Tree helps you explore it.

Every family has stories worth keeping.
Oak Tree gives those stories a place to live
before they're forgotten.

It's a private family library — a place where your family's stories, recipes, photographs, and memories live together, organized and searchable, accessible to the people you choose.

You begin simply: add the people in your family, answer a few prompts about your own life, and share what you know about the people you love. Each story makes the library richer. Over time, it becomes something your family can return to, explore, and build on together — across generations.

What makes Oak Tree different is Ask Family — the ability to have a real conversation with any family member, living or not, drawn entirely from what they actually shared. Nothing invented. Nothing assumed. Only what your family has chosen to preserve.

It is a living library of the people you actually know — built by your family, for your family, one story at a time.

Ask Family — living or not

"Grandma, what was it like growing up during the Depression?"

"Dad, where did you learn to do that?"

"Mom, why did you make this every Sunday?"

It doesn't start with a project.
It starts with one story.

Maybe it's the thing your five-year-old said
in the bath last night, that you're already
starting to forget the exact wording of.

Maybe it's your mother's recipe, finally captured,
before the details quietly drift, the way they always do.

Maybe it's a question you've never quite gotten
around to asking — the kind that's easy to put off,
because you assume there will always be another Sunday.

Every family's library grows the same way.
One story. One person. One invitation.
Everything else follows from there.

Behind the scenes, Oak Tree uses artificial intelligence to help organize, search, and connect the stories your family shares — so you spend less time managing information, and more time discovering each other.

We built it to disappear.
If you never think about the technology at all,
we've done our job.

Our Promise

Before you trust us with your family's memories,
we'd like to make a few promises.

  • Your family's stories belong to your family.
  • Oak Tree will never invent memories or pretend to know things that aren't true.
  • We'll be honest about how artificial intelligence is used. AI is here to help your family discover its own stories — not create fictional ones.
  • Our technology will always support real conversations, not replace them.
  • We'll tell you plainly what Oak Tree costs.
  • We won't hide fees, surprise you with charges, or make it difficult to leave.
  • We'll explain things in plain English whenever we can.
  • We'll treat your family's memories with the same care we'd want for our own.

Most of all, we promise to build Oak Tree in a way
that brings families closer together.
That's why we're here.

Sometimes, the best thing Oak Tree does
is remind you to close your laptop
and simply call your mother.

Oak Tree Memories

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Oak Tree Memories
$20/mo
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  • Unlimited family members
  • Unlimited stories and memories
  • Living Memoir prompts
  • Ask Family — living or not
  • Family Tree builder
  • Photo and document storage
  • Advanced search across stories
  • Early access to new features

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