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Transform your family tree into a family legacy.

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Seamlessly Integrate Your Family Tree With  Personal, Private, Permanent Archives

You've made the responsible decision to trust your family history to FamilySearch. Now make the same choice for all of your personal and private digital materials. We're working with the FamilySearch team to make it easy for you bridge the gap.

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Import Your Family Tree in Minutes

Watch the video tutorial below to learn how.

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Connect directly to your FamilySearch account

Permanent.org can connect your FamilySearch account automatically to create private Permanent Archives for any members of your family tree that you select.

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Complete control over which persons you import to Permanent

You can carefully select which of the Persons in your family tree you want to create a Permanent Archive for and which to skip. Come back later to add more members of your family tree at any time.
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Import memories directly into their corresponding archives

You can easily import memories associated with selected persons directly into their corresponding permanent archives without any hassle. No need to recreate the hard work you've already invested into FamilySearch.

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You're ready to start curating your Permanent archvies

After import, you will be granted ownership of the Permanent Archives for each person you imported from your family tree. You can then invite your family members to take control of their archives and collaborate together to preserve your digital stories.

The Digital Storage Platform You’ve Been Waiting For

No subscriptions. Just $10 per GB.

Monthly subscriptions expire. On Permanent.org, storage fees are only charged once - $10 per gigabyte of storage, as you need it. We invest your contributions into a nonprofit endowment that covers the perpetual cost of storage and supports a nonprofit organization committed to protecting, migrating and maintaining access to your precious digital content.

Your files are insured for the future.Half the fun of preserving your things is doing it together. Add your family members, friends or teammates as Members of your Permanent Archives so that they can build it with you. You choose a Member’s access level and you can add and change permissions or transfer ownership at any time.
Collaborate with control.Half the fun of preserving your things is doing it together. Add your family members, friends or teammates as Members of your Permanent Archives so that they can build it with you. You choose a Member’s access level and you can add and change permissions or transfer ownership at any time.
Your memories are always accessible.In order for generations of the future to enjoy your files, they have to be able to open them. We have no idea how file formats will change as time goes on, so we’re planning for it now. We convert your files on upload to a universally standard format so that they can continue to be converted for new technology as time goes on.
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Who is Permanent for?

Permanent is used by professional and burgeoning archivists, professional and hobbyist genealogists, photo organizers, professional photographers and videographers, illustrators and artists, parents and grandparents, nonprofit organizations, and conscious consumers who are looking for a better way to preserve their digital memories. Permanent was built for everyone. People of any interest, profession or technical background. Permanent is a platform built by the people, for the people.
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Our promise to you.

We will preserve, protect and secure any private data entrusted to us and make any data shared with others or released to the public accessible for all time by migrating it through future technological advances.

We will never mine private data for our benefit, we will never exchange copyright as a condition of using our service, and we will never invade individual privacy with unsolicited advertisements.

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