Grouped by life stage. Ten to fifteen minutes at a time. Recorded in their own voice.
Ten questions. Ten to fifteen minutes at a time. Two questions per sitting is plenty; stop while they still want to keep going, and come back next week. The goal is not to cover their life. It is to get their voice telling one true story, then another.
Rooms are easy to describe and full of detail. This one warms them up.
Everyone has one. It usually comes with a laugh and a name you haven't heard before.
This reaches back a generation you may never have met.
Rituals hold the texture of a family: the food, the radio, who sat where.
A concrete question with a number in it. Numbers unlock stories.
Not the title. The thing they fixed, built or got right when it mattered.
Ask it about the person they married, or nearly did. Then be quiet.
The honest version of a love story, and the one children are rarely told.
The answer is usually the thing they most want you to know.
Save this one for last. Let them answer it in their own words, in their own voice.
Set up Call Senarra. Your parent calls (978) 736-2772 from any phone — a landline works — enters your family's six-digit code, and Senarra asks gentle questions and saves every answer in their own voice to your private archive. There is nothing for them to install, no account, no password. You create the code once in the app and read it to them over the phone.
Set up Call Senarra — free, no card →
Prefer to ask in person? Put your phone on the table, open Senarra, and tap record. Or take the questions with you: the free 49-question kit is a printable PDF.
Ten to fifteen minutes. One or two questions, then stop while it is still easy. Short sessions get repeated; long ones get postponed.
No. With Call Senarra your parent dials an ordinary phone number from any phone, including a landline, enters your family's six-digit code, and just talks. Senarra asks the questions and saves their answers, in their voice, to your family's private archive.
Skip it. Nothing is timed and there is no list to finish. The point is the voice and the story, not coverage.
Into your private family archive in Senarra. They are never sold or used to train AI, and you can export all of them at any time. See senarra.app/privacy/where-your-recordings-go.