What is a time path? Try to visualize the life of grandparent in a set of collected stories told by then and embellished by you. These stories lay themselves out on a map and can be scrolled through chronologically.

Check out our sample path.

How do you compose your own TimePaths?
Start by collecting old family photos, then go and connect with all the more senior living relatives. As you visit, you simply turn on your cellphone’s record feature and startup conversations to bring back the stories around those old photos. Put on your journalist hat and ask lots of probing questions. While you’re there, ask if they have any old photos to add to your collection. You could even snap photos of family pictures on their walls. Keep track of which stories tie to which photos as well as who’s in them and a date for when the photos were taken.

With this medley of material, you’re ready to be a movie producer punching out a series of podcasts that map out the epic stories for each relative. You can pull in any family resources as needed. Kid’s art for the missing pictures, Internet content to fill in historical context around events. Create some simple maps laying out the geography under the story. Picking appropriate icons to animate the TimePath on your maps.

Once you have all this together, you’re ready to host it up on TimePaths. Currently, the platform to make this self-serve is under construction, but forwarding the material to us will get you over this last step.