About
Our mission
Saga’s mission is to document and preserve the history of humankind through interconnected family stories. It starts with one family writing down its own.
From the founder
My father spent twenty years tracing 8,000 people and 1,800 families across 500 years of family history. After he died, his archive, hundreds of gigabytes and thousands of pages of records, sat in my iCloud.
I’m a historian and a designer. Seven years after he died, I came back to the archive and saw that there was still no good way for a family to tell its history or find it. Existing software is outdated, convoluted, and expensive. My work with complex data and knowledge graphs gave me a good idea of how it should be done.
That’s how Saga began.
Alexander Toporov