Changelog
What's new
Improvements and fixes to Rememberkin, newest first. Have a request or found something off? Email support@rememberkin.com.
- New
Read a free sample of your family's stories
We can write a few of your family's best stories before you buy and send them as a private link. Read them without signing in, then order the full book from the same page.
- Improved
Every order is saved to your account
Checking out without signing in now saves the order to an account for the email you paid with. Sign in with that email anytime to see it on any device; we email you a code, so there's no password to remember.
- New
- Fixed
Edit photo keeps your crop while a large photo is still loading
Opening a photo before it finished downloading could show it zoomed in on the wrong spot, and saving too soon could replace your crop with the whole photo.
- Improved
Add Pocket Books to your Ancestor Stories book order
Choose copies from the story itself. They ship in the book's box at the lower price, and paying for a new Pocket Book brings you back to the story you were on.
- Improved
The Ancestor Stories book is now $129
- Improved
New books follow your latest FamilySearch tree
Names and spouses you fix on FamilySearch show up when you start a book, and records FamilySearch has merged no longer appear in searches.
- Fixed
Books stay in sync with FamilySearch
- New
Books and charts sync with FamilySearch automatically
Opening a project checks FamilySearch for changes and brings them in while keeping your edits. Use Sync now in the header to check right away.
- Improved
New books start from your latest FamilySearch tree
Creating a book fetches your tree fresh instead of reusing an older copy, and new photos can be checked for at any time from the photo picker.
- Fixed
People removed from FamilySearch no longer stall a book
When FamilySearch deletes or replaces a person, the book follows the replacement or offers a sync instead of retrying a download that cannot succeed.
- Fixed
Extra print copies and viewer print choices carry through to your order
- New
A safer path to print for board books
- Improved
Board books now use a new print partner
Every 6x6 board-book order stays on manual hold while we inspect the cover and all ten spreads before releasing it to production.
- Improved
Write better captions, follow family journeys
- New
Manage a whole photo album page's captions at once
Click the caption area in the book preview or choose Manage captions in the photo organizer. Each photo appears with its printed crop, source details, and a link to the original FamilySearch memory when available.
- New
Shared projects explain themselves on first open
A one-time welcome names who shared the project and explains whether you can view or edit it. Shared projects can also be removed from your own My Products list without affecting anyone else.
- New
Ancestor Books now record how each edition was made
A quiet colophon records that Rememberkin composed the book from FamilySearch records, along with the typeface, paper, edition year, and Rememberkin address.
- Improved
Family journey maps are clearer and more accurate
Nearby places share numbered map points, duplicate routes draw only once, and each person's birthplace and destination connect directly to the map. Dense generations now fit without losing their geographic context.
- Improved
Incomplete family branches look intentional on the cover
Empty ancestor positions now keep the family-circle cover balanced when one branch has fewer known generations.
- Improved
New books are more cautious around living relatives
Parent and grandparent sections are selected by default only when every known person in that generation is deceased. Their ancestry still appears in the book's charts.
- Improved
Fresh uploads are easier to find
Uploaded photos appear first in suggested images, newest first, and the picker scrolls to the photo you just added or enhanced.
- Fixed
Saved photo crops reopen where you left them
The crop editor no longer jumps to the wrong zoom or position when an image loads from cache, loads slowly, or the editor is reopened quickly.
- Fixed
Removed portraits stay removed throughout the book
Removing an ancestor's main portrait now also clears its automatic copies from the cover and pedigree chart.
- New
Straighten photos, move through books faster
- New
Rotate and straighten photos
The photo editor now has 90° rotation controls and half-degree straightening. Saved crops, flips, and rotation match in the editor and the printed book.
- Improved
Photo organizers open faster in Ancestor Books
Each couple's photo library loads before you open the organizer, and the couple page shows how many photos are available for each person.
- Improved
Smoother browsing through long books
Scrolling between spreads no longer redraws every page thumbnail, and autosaves refresh less data in the background.
- Fixed
Photo album pages stay where you drop them
Reordered album pages no longer snap back to their previous position after a drag.
- New
- New
Fill in the edges of oval and vignette photos
A new enhancement option turns portraits printed in an oval, arch, or fading vignette into full rectangles by extending the original backdrop. The face and everything already in the photo are left as they are.
- New
Ready-to-customize products on My Products
Charts and books your FamilySearch import has made ready now appear at the top of My Products with a one-click Customize button, the same items the bell in the navigation bar shows. My Products also has its own link in the navigation when you are signed in.
- Improved
Clearer message when the AI photo service is down
If an enhancement or animation fails because the AI provider is unavailable, the result now says so instead of implying something was wrong with your photo. The credit is still refunded automatically.
- Fixed
Bell menu no longer stays stuck after creating a product
Creating a product from the notification bell left the remaining items disabled until a page reload. They are usable again as soon as the editor opens.
- New
Review books by spread, animate FamilySearch portraits
- Improved
Ancestor Book editor shows real two-page spreads
The couple preview now matches the printed book: portrait plate facing biography, photo albums two to a sheet. Navigation reads “Spread 3 of 8” and the sidebar thumbnails are laid out as spreads.
- New
Mark each couple ready for print
An explicit “This couple is ready for print” checkbox replaces the old behavior where moving to the next couple quietly marked it done. Reviewed couples show a green check on the book overview.
- New
Enhance and animate FamilySearch profile portraits
Ancestors whose only picture is their FamilySearch profile portrait can now be enhanced or animated. Small portraits are upscaled automatically before processing.
- Improved
More natural photo animation
Reworked the animation style for gentler head motion and far fewer blinks.
- New
Guide: why a deceased relative shows as living on FamilySearch
Explains the private-copy-never-merged case and how to fix it. Linked from the editors wherever dates or photos are missing.
- Improved
Couples are labeled with a surname
“Warren & Barbara Davis” instead of “Warren & Barbara”, so repeated first names across generations stay distinguishable.
- New
Remove photos from individual-page galleries
The photo editor now offers a Remove action on gallery pages.
- Fixed
“Used elsewhere” photo badges respect crops
Cropping a group photo to one person no longer marks the other person’s crop as already used.
- Fixed
Book preview no longer jumps back to page one
Selecting a portrait plate while photos were still loading used to reset the selection every few seconds.
- Fixed
Friendlier messages when photo enhancement fails
You now see a plain retry message instead of a raw provider error.
- Fixed
New book builds start promptly after a failed one
- Improved
Buy first, design later
- New
Buy any book or chart as credit before designing it
Every product can be purchased up front (or as a gift) and redeemed later in the editor. Buyers pay tax at purchase, so redemption is free.
- New
Branded order and account emails
- Improved
More reliable FamilySearch imports for large trees
Imports that failed part way can be restarted, and a book no longer goes live until every person has been saved.
- Fixed
Sign-in reliability fixes
- New
- New
- Improved
Launch readiness pass across checkout, orders, and support pages
Direct checkout and a rebuilt chart editor
- Improved
One-step checkout
Carts are gone. Every product goes straight from the editor to payment.
- Improved
Fan, pedigree, and descendancy charts share one editor with live previews and print-accurate fonts.
- New
Store credit and gifting
- Improved
- New
My Grandma & Her Ancestors and My Grandpa & His Ancestors
Grandparent editions of the ancestor book, built the same way from your FamilySearch tree.
- Improved
New wall art printing partner
Wall charts now ship from a partner with more sizes and faster turnaround.
- New