The Registry
The Sondage Registry
A credentialed Guild for the human-made work of preserving a life.
Sondage credentials independent practitioners in three disciplines. Scholarly inquiry into a single life. Non-custodial heritage curation. Broadcast-grade archival audio engineered for an unknown future listener. If you have built a career in one of them, the Registry was built for you.
——Find your practice——
For the Humanities Scholar
You were trained to sit with a life. Historian, anthropologist, sociologist, ethnographer, oral historian, allied doctoral humanist. You know what it takes to ask the question that opens a room. You know the difference between an interview and a scholarly inquiry. You have watched the field of life-history work be colonized by consumer prompts and synthetic voices, and you have wondered where the discipline went.
The Certified Legacy Scholar credential is for you. Ten modules. Doctoral formation required.
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For the Heritage Consultant
You have spent a career helping families decide what an inheritance means. Personal historian, professional photo organizer, digital asset manager, family archivist, estate consultant, independent curator. You know that an unsorted closet is not a problem of volume, it is a problem of significance. You have watched families try to outsource the work to apps that cannot do it.
The Legacy Collection Curator credential is for you. Ten modules. Graduate formation with documented experience.
For the Audio Professional
You have spent a career chasing an honest signal. Location recording, documentary sound, broadcast, podcast engineering, voice-over direction. You know what a voice does when the pressure is real, and you know what a room does to it. You have built rigs in places that were not built for recording, and you have learned what your craft can carry.
What Sondage asks of that craft is something new. Broadcast captures a voice for an audience already listening. The Sondage Sound is engineered for a listener who has not yet been born. The voice on the record will outlive the room, the rig, the format it was captured in, and very likely the producer who captured it. Sound conducted to that horizon is sound conducted differently.
The Legacy Sound Producer credential is for you. Five modules. Experience formation required.
What You Are Joining
The Sondage Guild is the working community of practitioners credentialed under a single standard. Listed on the Registry. Conducting under the Sondage name. Independently established in your own practice.
The credential is yours. It travels with your practice, appears in your own marketing, and points your existing clients to a governance body that signs what you already do.
Every practitioner accredited into the Guild commits to three non-waivables. AI is never used in the collection or interpretation of a primary source. Every Season carries a documented chain of custody from the body that conducted the inquiry to the body that placed the record in the archive. The archive belongs to the Senior Fellow. Sondage retains nothing.
These are not constraints. They are the articulation of what serious practitioners in your field have already done for years.
Las Américas — Bilingual Scholar Registry
Sondage is forming its inaugural bilingual cohort for the Americas — credentialed Legacy Scholars prepared to conduct Seminars on the Self in Spanish-speaking communities across the United States and Latin America. This cohort represents the Registry's first geographic expansion.