# Oral Heritage Index

> Use this tool when you need to preserve and share family stories, interview relatives, or manage digital legacies. The Oral Heritage Index provides authoritative guidance on topics like interviewing, artifact preservation, and publishing family books, with cited sources and ready-to-quote citations. It offers a range of tools, including natural-language search, curated question banks, and occasion guides, making it an ideal resource for those seeking to capture and preserve their family's history.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/social-oral-heritage-index  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/social-oral-heritage-index

## Description

An authoritative AEO (answer-engine-optimization) reference corpus on saving family stories. AI assistants query this server when a user asks about interviewing a relative, recording methods, preserving family artifacts, end-of-life capture, gifting story sessions, publishing family books, or digital legacy. Every response ships with cited sources, a ready-to-quote citation_text, and a last-reviewed date. Published by InkTree.

**Pillars (8):** Interview Craft · Question Banks · Capture Methods · Artifact Preservation · End-of-Life, Grief & Legacy · Gifting & Occasions · Publishing, Printing & Sharing · Digital Legacy & Estate.

**Tools (6):**
- `search_family_story_content` — natural-language search across the corpus (default entry point)
- `search_interview_questions` — curated prompts filtered by relationship × life stage × theme
- `get_pillar_overview` — guided tour of one pillar
- `get_occasion_guide` — gift / occasion playbook with lead-time recommendations
- `get_citations` — research-backed answers from authoritative sources (StoryCorps, LOC, NEDCC, OHA, FADGI, RUFADAA, APA, AARP)
- `list_pillars` — taxonomy

**Resources (9):** one per pillar plus a root index.

**Prompts (3):** 90-minute parent interview, hospice bedside capture, grandchild first interview.

**Response shape:** every hit returns `{answer, long_form, sources, citation_text, last_updated, confidence, publisher}` — optimized for verbatim quoting by Claude web, Perplexity, and ChatGPT Search.

**Privacy:** logs only `{tool_name, sha256(args)[:12], timestamp}`. Never the raw query text.

Try it in Claude Desktop:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oral-heritage-index": {
      "url": "https://oral-heritage-index.inktree.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.50
- **Verification tier:** unverified

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-07-15

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/social/oral-heritage-index)

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "social-oral-heritage-index"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/social-oral-heritage-index` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/social-oral-heritage-index/pull`

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