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The Johnson family archive
One family's stories, photographs, recipes, and the details that help them stay close across generations.
- 4 generations
- Since 1948
- Invite-only
Everything on this page is invented for the demo: the Johnsons, their dates, their recipe and their recordings. No real family's content is shown here.
Who is in the archive
Four generations, one table
- 01First generationRobert & Helen Johnson1925 – 2018
- 02Second generationMargaret, David & Susanborn 1955 – 1962
- 03Third generationEmily, James, Sarah & Michaelborn 1980 – 1992
- 04Fourth generationLily, Noah & Avaborn 2012 – 2019
A living collection
Recent memories
Each memory keeps the question it answers, who it is about, when and where it happened — the context that makes it findable later.
- Voice recording · 4:12Transcript below (demo)
Audio story
The summer we built the treehouse
“Dad drew the plan on the back of a seed packet. We had one hammer between the three of us and argued about it all summer. It is still standing — I checked last year.”
- About
- Margaret Johnson-Thompson
- When
- Recorded 3 May 2024 · about July 1968
- Where
- Lake Simcoe, Ontario
Photograph
Sunday lunch at the old house
Helen cooked for eleven people every Sunday. The chair with the cracked back was Robert's and nobody else was allowed to sit in it.
- About
- Helen Johnson, with Robert and the children
- When
- 4 October 1975
- Where
- Withrow Avenue, Toronto
Recipe & story
Mum's apple cake
Six apples, never five. Brown the butter first — that is the part everyone forgets. Helen learned it from her mother and taught it to every grandchild who could hold a whisk.
- About
- Eleanor Johnson, written down by Susan
- When
- A family recipe, first baked around 1950
- Where
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
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