Community-Led Recordkeeping (#clrk), supported by decentralized protocols, such as Nostr reanimates the very way human societies managed their records long before the rise of centralized bureaucracies. For most of history, families, clans, guilds, and villages preserved their own births, apprenticeships, land boundaries, exchanges, and agreements through trusted witnesses, shared memory, marked objects, and community-held documents. These practices were local, verifiable, and socially enforced—not dependent on distant authorities. Modern technologies such as Nostr-based attestations, portable digital vaults, and tamper-evident community safeboxes do not replace that tradition; they restore its logic by giving communities the means to document, store, and share proofs of everyday life using tools that are just as human-centred as the systems they once relied on. In this sense, technology becomes an enabler of historical continuity, allowing community autonomy and mutual trust to flourish again in a digital age.