Legacy Profile

A free, simple, and meaningful way to document your life and share it with others.

Our simple, guided approach makes it easy to document your life story, even if you've never written anything before.

Sign up for Legacy Profile today, and help preserve history & the human experience for future generations.

What's your story?

How It Works

Sign Up

Legacy Profile is completely free. To sign up you just need to provide your name and email address.

Build your profile

Use a keyboard or audio input device to add entries in various categories and topics.

Share your story

Send your profile link to your friends and family so they can learn about your unique life story.

Why tell your story?

Haven't you ever wondered about the life of your parents or grandparents? Where they lived, how they lived and what made them who they are. Those who come after you will want to know about your life.

Whether you are a parent, grandparent or someone who wants to document their life or help a family member document theirs, Legacy Profile is for you.

Your story is a unique piece of history. By sharing it, you preserve your legacy, inspire others, and ensure your voice is heard for generations to come.

Every one has a story to tell. What's yours?

Frequently Asked Questions

Legacy Profile provides a free place for you to record and share your life story with family and friends. We also want to create an archive of the lives of people today to help preserve the history in a way that doesn't currently exist. Our goal is to preserve history & the human experience for future generations.

How much do you really know about those who came before you? Most of us only know the few things we saw or heard from our parents and grandparents. Wouldn’t you like to know what made them who they were and more details about their life? Future generations will want to know you. You are the beginning of their story and everyone’s story is worth telling. There are people who will want to read it even if it’s not professionally written. Those people are your siblings, children, grandchildren, and extended family. A Legacy Profile is the perfect way to permanently record your life story and make it part of the history of mankind.

No. Legacy Profile is completely free for as long as you want. If you'd like to donate to help us create this archive of human history, you'll see a link at the bottom of our site to do that.

First of all, we are free with no obligation from you. Legacy Profile is loaded with questions, prompts, and examples to help you create a profile you can share with others as you wish.

Simply sign up at LegacyProfile.com and follow the simple prompts to create your account. From there, you'll be able to create your profile in as much detail as you like.

Your Legacy Profile can be viewed by any other Legacy Profile user. Similar to sites like Wikipedia, your profile is open to the public. However, your contact information that you use to create your account will never be shared.

You can keep your profile online for as long as you want and make changes at any time.

Each account allows the designation of someone else to have 'editing' access to your account. Typically, this would be someone close to you or in your family.

Your Legacy Profile is designed to allow you to be as detailed about your life as you want. It is meant to provide details about you and your life so that someone reading will have a reasonable mental picture of who you were, how you thought, where you lived, what you did, and important events and observations that shaped your life.

Yes! We have gone to great lengths to make the process as easy as possible. The information you will provide has been broken down into Categories, Topics, and Entries that we believe best represent the human experience. If you need more room, we allow for the creation of your own categories and topics. We take you step by step through the process of creating your Legacy Profile with easy-to-understand instructions and the ability to make entries with a keyboard or your device's microphone.

Our memory prompts and examples will provide you with the creative power you need to tell your story. Entries are designed to be easy to answer and allow you to be as creative as you want.

You are under no obligation to finish within a certain time, and there is no limit on how long you can keep your profile online. Legacy Profile is completely free, and you can come back and work on it any time you like.

Yes. Your Legacy Profile information is kept on a secure server and is protected by a Username and Password of your choosing. We will not sell or share your information with any other person or company.

Your profile will be visible to any other Legacy Profile user. If you're not comfortable sharing something, we recommend you do not include it in your profile.

The first thing you'll do is create your account profile. Next, to provide details about your life, you'll go to the 'My Account' section and start recording your story. How much or how little detail you provide is up to you. You can visit our example Legacy Profile at any time for ideas on how to create yours.