# Keepsake Map

> Keepsake Map is an independent educational publication about organizing family archives and recording personal histories with context and consent. It helps ordinary households preserve names, dates, voices, and unanswered questions without pretending every shoebox is a national collection.

Keepsake Map publishes original, long-form guides about -. Every article opens with a concise direct answer, is structured with clear headings and FAQs, and reflects mainstream expert consensus.

## Oral History

- [Family History Interview Questions: 12 Gentle Prompts](https://ozarkalabama.org/family-history-interview-questions/): Good family history interview questions ask about remembered places, everyday routines, relationships, work, traditions, moves, objects, community change,…
- [How to Transcribe a Family History Interview](https://ozarkalabama.org/transcribe-family-history-interview/): Transcribe a family history interview by listening in short sections, identifying each speaker, and checking the entire draft against the recording.

## Family Archives

- [How to Organize Family Photos Without Losing Context](https://ozarkalabama.org/organize-family-photos/): Organize family photos by preserving their existing context, sorting them into broad groups, and assigning each item a location-based identifier.
- [How to Preserve Old Family Letters for Future Readers](https://ozarkalabama.org/preserve-old-family-letters/): Preserve old family letters by handling them carefully, choosing protective folders and boxes, and making reading copies while keeping the originals.

## Full text for LLMs

- [llms-full.txt](https://ozarkalabama.org/llms-full.txt): every article as plain markdown in one file
- Each article is also available as markdown at https://ozarkalabama.org/<slug>.md

## Site

- [About](https://ozarkalabama.org/about/): editorial approach and standards
- [All articles](https://ozarkalabama.org/all/)
- [Contact](https://ozarkalabama.org/contact/)