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Est. by documentary filmmakers · A new genre of memory keeping

The Life & Times
Annuary

A diary for your years, not your days.

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Two pages a year. One hundred years of room. The oldest and most valuable book on your shelf someday — because you wrote it.

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The Idea

Your memoir, in the making.

Daily journals buckle under their own pressure. Life moves faster than a blank page every morning, and most diaries end up abandoned by February. The Annuary asks for something you can actually give: two pages, once a year.

Each year of your life — from birth on — gets a two-page spread for the memorable people, places, and things that made you one year wiser. Childhood homes and forever homes. Family vacations and misadventures with pets. Career wins, cherished losses, silly things that made you laugh, sacred things that made you cry.

Start any time, any year, in any style you choose. The book guides you the whole way.

Year Thirty-Four2003
Bought the little house on Maple — leaky roof, perfect porch.
Dad taught the boys to fish at Council Bluff.
Jen's garden finally beat the rabbits.
People & Places❦
New neighbor Ruth — brings tomatoes, stays for coffee.
Lost Uncle Ray in October. Tribute on p. 289.

One spread per year. Highlights, lowlights, and everything worth remembering.

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The Annuary overview

How a diary for your years works — and why two pages once a year is enough.

What's Inside

Built to outlive you — in the best way.

With room reserved for your birth certificate in the front, your death certificate in the back, and your most valuable memories in between.

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8.5″ × 11″ Hardcover

Over 300 pages, built like a book that intends to be handed down.

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Entries to 100+ Years

A spread for every year of a long life, with overflow pages for the big ones.

Guidance Throughout

Loaded with inspiration and prompts, so a blank page never stops you.

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Certificate Pages

A place for your birth certificate up front — and your death certificate at the back.

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Inclusive Family Tree

Adapts easily for every kind of family, however yours is built.

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Claimed Family

Room to honor the "family members" who were never legally related — but always yours.

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Tribute Section

Dedicated pages to remember and write tributes for lost loved ones.

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A Living Legacy

A memory keeper in your lifetime; a legacy-worthy record for generations after.

Original Edition

Meet the classic Annuary.

A short look at the Original Edition — the binding that started the genre, built to be written in and handed down.

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The Editions

Choose your Annuary.

Same idea, three bindings. Every edition carries the full 100-year structure, family tree, and tribute sections. Order here — secure checkout via Stripe, ships to the US & Canada.

Original Edition hardcover

Original Edition

$54.95 + shipping

The one that started the genre. The classic Annuary in its first hardcover design — the definitive diary for your years.

Passage Edition hardcover

Passage Edition

$54.95 + shipping

A refined design for marking the passages of a life — a favorite gift for weddings, graduations, and new babies.

Odyssey Edition hardcover

Odyssey Edition

$54.95 + shipping

For the life rich with adventures already lived. Start at any age and work both forward and back through your story.

The Makers

Designed by historical documentary filmmakers.

Jennifer & Brandon Wade have spent more than a decade documenting lives — including the award-winning PBS documentary Paving the Way: The National Park-to-Park Highway, airing internationally since 2009.

The Annuary grew organically from Jennifer's own need: a way to claim her "never-legal" family members and preserve her memories long enough to hand down to her children. With backgrounds spanning social work, engineering, research, personal history documentaries, photography, and film, the Wades built the book they couldn't find anywhere else.

Give a Gift to Remember

Future generations will know you as an actual person — not a random name they've heard stories about.
New babies Graduations Weddings Birthdays Retirements Holidays Or a gift to yourself — that becomes a gift to your great-great-great-granddaughter

Begin Your Record

Life is the best story ever told.

Word by word, year by year, you create your legacy. What are you waiting for?

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