Your score is based on 18 questions spread across 10 areas of family life, each answered on a sliding scale from 1 to 5.

A score of 1 means that aspect of your family’s story is essentially uncaptured and at risk of being lost. A score of 5 means it’s well preserved. Each of the 10 areas contributes to your overall score, which is expressed as a number out of 100.

Before the main questions begin, three short priority questions personalise your results — identifying which areas matter most to you and weighting your score accordingly, so the insights you receive reflect your own situation rather than a generic average.

The ten areas were chosen to reflect the full breadth of what a family actually represents across generations — not just the milestone moments, but the people, places, wisdom, traditions, heritage, and everyday experiences that give a family its character and identity.

The goal was a framework complete enough that a family scoring well across all ten areas would have genuinely preserved something meaningful for future generations — and one where a low score in any single area would reveal a real and specific gap worth addressing.

A low score isn’t a verdict — it’s a starting point. The most important thing is to begin somewhere specific rather than trying to tackle everything at once.

If your score reveals that your parents’ stories are at risk, a good first step is a single recorded conversation — not a formal interview, just a cup of tea and a handful of questions you’ve never thought to ask before.

Simirity’s free guides to questions to ask your mom and questions to ask your dad are a practical place to start. If your children’s stories feel undercaptured, even brief written notes about who they are right now, their personality, their opinions, their sense of humour, are worth far more than you might think—here’s a questions guide for kids to get you started.

The goal isn’t perfection. It’s preservation.

The pattern is remarkably consistent across thousands of people who have reflected on this. The stories people most wish they had captured fall into a few recurring categories:

• Their parents’ and grandparents’ early lives.
• The story of how their parents met and fell in love.
• The wisdom accumulated through decades of experience that was never formally passed on.
• The meaning and history behind family objects, photographs, and heirlooms.
• The inner emotional world of people they loved — what they were really feeling during the defining moments of their lives, not just what happened.

These are rarely the stories anyone thinks to ask about. They’re also almost never written down anywhere.

Simirity is a private family journaling platform built specifically for preserving the kinds of stories this assessment measures.

It gives every family member their own space to write stories, record voice notes, and add photos — organised by theme, searchable, and accessible to the whole family across generations.

Unlike social media or messaging apps, Simirity is designed for depth rather than surface-level interactions: stories are meant to last and help your family feel closer.

If your score has revealed gaps you’d like to start filling, the Simirity demo is a good place to see, showing examples of how families capture stories. No signup needed.