For a 90th birthday

Ninety years of friends and family say happy birthday.

Grandchildren, great-grandchildren and the cousins in Boston each record a message for their 90th. It all goes into a book to hold, with the voices on a podcast link.

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Their voice plays from the page.
Read it
Every message is written out on its page.
Hold it
We deliver the printed book to your door.

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Here's how Grandad's 90th birthday book was made.

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A green linen Chorus book with For Grandad on the cover, lying beside a pair of reading glasses
How it works

Bring everyone's stories together with one link!

Start the book

Tell us who it's for

Put in their name and send the link to the family WhatsApp.

Share one link

Everyone adds their story

Friends and family can capture a memory by voice, video, writing or photos, wherever they are in the world. It's easy on any phone and nobody needs an account!

We put it together

Hear it, read it, hold it

We write out every voice note and gather it all into a podcast you can play and a beautiful book you can hold.

The questions in the book

  1. What's a story about them you've never told them?
  2. What did they teach you that you still do?
  3. What would you like to say to them for their 90th?
Who's in a 90th book

Each generation gets its own pages.

The bridge club and the GAA club get the same link as the family.

1

The great-grandchildren

A four-year-old's hello goes in the book like everyone else's, and Chorus writes out what they say for their page.

2

The friends they've had longest

A neighbour of sixty years and the last of their classmates from Ballinasloe can each be in it. Someone can call round with their own phone and record them on the link.

3

A grandchild beside them

A grandchild can sit with them and read the stories out.

What people say

What people say in a 90th birthday book

Tell one story they'd remember, the way you'd tell it at the table.

"Paddy, it's Peig next door. My Seán still talks about the go-kart you built him out of a pram in 1971."
PPeighis neighbour since 1966
"Happy birthday Grandad Paddy. Mammy says you're ninety. I'm five and I can do a cartwheel."
CCianhis great-grandson, aged five
"Dad, it's Úrsula. I was thinking about the night you drove to Galway in the snow to collect me from the bus. Happy ninetieth."
ÚÚrsulahis daughter
"Paddy, Joe from the club. Sixty-two years we've been playing cards on a Thursday. Happy birthday, and mind yourself."
JJoehis friend from the club
When to start

Close the book three weeks before the 90th

The printed book takes about three weeks to reach you. If you're starting later, the podcast link and the book online are ready the day you order.

In their words
A Christmas gift
We gave a book of stories about Mam to her for Christmas and she said it was the best gift she had received. There were some stories she had never heard! She felt really surrounded by love.
K
Kathleen's family
gave her the book at Christmas
What it costs

Gathering the voices is free. You only pay when the book is ready.

The gathering
Free
Send one link and collect the voices.
  • Every voice and every photo
  • Download every recording
  • Start as many books as you like
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The voices
$45
Voice editing, and a personal podcast link.
  • Each recording tidied as it comes in
  • The original kept exactly as it was made
  • One link that plays every voice straight through
Choose the voices
The book
$99
Everything in the voices, plus the finished book to read online.
  • The finished book laid out to read online
  • Every message playable from its page
  • Every message written out beside its voice
Choose the book
The keepsake
$115
The book, printed and posted to you.
  • One printed hardcover copy
  • Posted to you
  • Everything in the book option
Choose the keepsake

Want to write your own questions? Start a blank book

Questions people ask

What do you get someone for their 90th who has everything?

Ask the people who've known them longest. Each of their stories goes in the book with their name on it.

Can older relatives who don't use smartphones take part?

Yes. Anyone can type a message instead of recording one, so a grandchild can take it down for them.

Can we play it at the 90th birthday party?

Yes. Put the podcast link on during the party and pass the printed book round after the cake.

Can family abroad record?

Yes. They can record from anywhere in the world with the link. We post the printed book to Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, every EU country, Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.

Can we add old photos?

Yes. The wedding photo from 1958 can go in with the story about that day.

Can everyone chip in?

Yes, if you turn chip-in on. Everyone who records can put money towards the book and saves their card. Their cards are charged when you go to pay, and it comes off what you pay. If you don’t finish paying, their money goes back within a week.

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Whose 90th is coming up?

Start the book now and invite people whenever you're ready.

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