What This Is
A place-based registry of lived human history
• Everyday stories anchored where they happened
• Curated with care and local significancex
• Visible today and preserved for tomorrow
Launching the first sponsored pilot city in California
• Everyday stories anchored where they happened
• Curated with care and local significancex
• Visible today and preserved for tomorrow
See how real and what-if events appear on the world history map. Move through centuries, compare people's lives across continents, and open speculative timelines of what could have happened instead.
Upload a memory, photo, or voice note.
Local history made visible
• Local banks & credit unions
• Real estate developers & brokerages
• Cities, tourism orgs, community initiatives
• Residents & families
• Educators & local historians
• Creators and storytellers
" Lena’s journalism and multimedia expertise come together to create a valuable resource for years to come."
"This project will capture all that memories the way they will be last forever. It will be something what we all be proud of."
"This project will provide an opportunity for many people to learn about their personal and regional history."
2005
At the Journalist Awards Ceremony, Lena Faber was called “the journalist who put history on a road”. She received first prize and later published her famous column as a book. Her collection of local people’s stories, placed in the context of national history, became a bestseller. Read more
The idea of a History Matrix came to her then — but there were no tools to build it yet. She paused the concept, but never forgot it.
2018
After academia in South Africa and world travels (31 countries), she ended up teaching Digitizing Private Archives, bringing college students and older residents together. She began building a FolkHistory platform — but the project stopped during the Covid lockdown.
FolkHistory website
August 2025
A living map of local stories, anchored to time and place, The Here™ allows people to record lived history where it happened — preserving authorship, context, and continuity across generations.
Real historical records remain intact and attributed.
Creative interpretations exist in a parallel, clearly labeled layer — without altering the record.
Built city by city with local partners, as a permanent place-based record.
• Local sponsors
• Municipal programs
• Cultural organizations
• Contribute a story
• Sponsor a city layer
• Explore shared heritage
THE HERE™ WHERE THE WHEN™ IS
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