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Delaware

The First State has its history. You have a story all your own.

Delaware is famous as the first state to ratify the Constitution, and its old towns still carry those early days. Your own chapter here, told in your words, belongs right alongside that history.

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When were you the first among your friends to try something, and how did it turn out?

Delaware took pride in going first, so start your own record before the people around you think to ask for it. Each day's question, answered in your words by keyboard or by voice, adds up quietly over the seasons, from the Market Fair on the Green to a beach weekend, and you choose exactly who receives it.

Only you can see your answers while you live.

Delaware

Your Delaware, in your own words

First in line

Delaware was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, and First State National Historical Park now tells its early stories across six sites. Being first takes a little nerve. When were you first at something? First among your friends to move away, first on the dance floor, first to say sorry after an argument? Tell those stories, the proud ones and the funny ones, in your own words. Small firsts count just as much as big ones.

Old streets in New Castle

In New Castle, the old Court House was the first court of Delaware, and it has witnessed many moments in the state's history. Old buildings hold on to stories, but people hold on to the best ones. What places in your town have watched you grow? A school hallway, a diner, a church, a ballfield? Describe one of them, and the day there you will never forget. Tell it as if you were walking a friend through the door.

A fair on the Green

Each fall, First State National Historical Park holds an 18th Century Market Fair on the Green. What are the yearly traditions that tell you the season has turned where you live? A fair, a church supper, a beach weekend, a parade down Main Street? Write about the foods you look forward to, the places you take visitors first and the people you always run into. Your answers will tell the generations after you exactly what home felt like in your time.

How your record comes together

Gently, in your own time.

  1. A question to start

    Each one is written to bring back a real moment, not to test you.

  2. Your answer, dated

    Everything you write is kept as you wrote it, with the day you wrote it.

  3. Your people, chosen

    You name who receives it and when it can be read, within our waiting period.

Our promises to you

  • Never public

    Your record cannot be searched or seen by anyone else while you are living.

  • Never invented

    The guide quotes you exactly and never makes up an opinion in your name.

  • Never a likeness

    We keep text only, so there is nothing anyone could use to recreate your voice or face.

  • Always your choice

    Who receives your record, and whether a guide is offered, is decided by you.

The guide, in brief

Answers in your words, with care

The guide is an AI that helps the people you name find what you said. It shows your words as exact, dated quotes and never speaks for you.

  • Quotes, not paraphrase

    Your exact sentences, inserted from your record.

  • Disclosed as AI

    Every conversation reminds people it is an AI, not you.

  • When there is no answer

    It says Unknown rather than invent one.

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How we look after your information
  • Your record is private while you live: nothing in it is public or searchable.
  • You choose the people who will one day receive it, and you can change them at any time.
  • If you wish, a copy can one day go to a library or archive through the Historical Deposit.

Be first with your own story.

ToldForward asks one friendly question a day, and you answer in your own words whenever you like. Your record stays private while you live, and you name the people who will receive it one day.

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