More Than a Story
Backyard Tales gathers your family's stories into one running history — and it's only one room on the porch. Grandma's Front Porch is a full private family community, built for everything a family is, not just what it remembers to write down.
The rest of the porch
Alongside Backyard Tales, your family also gets:
Family Tree
An interactive tree the whole family builds together — every branch, every marriage, searchable by name.
Family Globe
A map of where everyone lives now, and where the family has lived before.
Photo Album
Shared family photos, tagged to the people in them.
Events
Reunions, birthdays, anniversaries — one calendar the whole family can see and add to.
Family Files
A safe place for GEDCOM exports, scanned documents, and old records that shouldn't live in one relative's basement.
Invite Someone
A shareable link and QR code for bringing more family onto the site — no public sign-up, ever.
One family, one private home
Every family's Porch belongs to that family alone — started by an Originator, joined only by invite code, never open to the public. It's the tree, the globe, the photos, the files, and the calendar, all living in the same private place as the stories.
Want your family's stories as a keepsake book?
Backyard Tales keeps every story gathered here on the Porch. If your family wants hands-on help turning those memories into a bound, printed keepsake, author Renaye Rutherford's Stories Worth Keeping (opens in a new tab) offers guided family-memoir books, separate from the Porch itself.