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Housetory How-To

Video Guides

Step-by-step tutorials for starting a House and using Housetory’s historical research tools. Watch here without leaving Housetory, then return to your private contribution and continue where you left off.

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Getting started

How to Add a House to Housetory

Create the private House that becomes the foundation for your research, photographs, sources and Timeline.

4 min 21 sec · 4K tutorial

House research

How to Use Housetory’s Digital Sands Directory

Trace residents, compare neighbouring households, investigate historical street-number changes and prepare reviewed Timeline evidence.

6 min 25 sec · Sands Directory research

More Housetory guides can be added here as new research tutorials are completed. This page is display-only and does not alter any House, research, moderation or publication records.