Kindred

Kindred is a family tree that a whole family shares, with the stories, photographs and places that go with it. You run it yourself, each family lives in its own database, and you can take it with you whenever you like.

Try the demo: two invented families, read-only, nothing to sign up for. The demo offers the grand tour first: a walk through everything Kindred does, on those families.

In most families, one person keeps the records, in a folder or a program nobody else can open. Kindred puts them somewhere everyone can reach. Relatives can find themselves, see how they are related to the great-aunt in the old photograph, and add what they remember: a saying, a recipe, the name of the village.

Why a family comes back

A tree gets one look. These are the parts meant to be opened again next week.

Today is the first page of every family, and its common room. The family's feed leads: what relatives wrote to each other, new memories and photographs, who was added to the tree. Beside it are the week's question, the day's quiz, the week's birthdays and wedding anniversaries, and what is new since your last visit.

• The family's feed. A relative writes a few lines to the family ("We have moved", "She passed her exam", "Photos from Sunday"), with pictures and the people it is about. Everyone can react, contributors can comment, and the message also shows on the page of whoever it is about. New memories, a day's photographs and new people in the tree join the same stream, so one page says what the family has been up to. The feed also says when records change, with the new value ("Ada updated Carl: new phone number +49 30 …, born 3 May 1950 in Graz"): a number you can call, an address that opens the map, the start of a biography. Each reader sees only the values they could see on the person's page; old values, removed values and medical or faith notes are never shown. A device can be told about a new message, at most once in a few hours.

• The question of the week. One question for the whole family ("What did the kitchen of your childhood look like?"), chosen from sixty written for the purpose, in every language Kindred speaks. A relative answers in a few sentences, about themselves or about anyone in the tree, and the answer is kept as a memory in the Chronicle.

• The daily quiz. "Do you know your family?" asks one question a day made from the family's own records: whose shield this is, who this is, who someone's parents were, where someone was born, who came first. Everyone gets the same question, you get one try, and it keeps a streak. It never asks about a cause of death.

• The Campaign. Rule your house for 12 turns against the family's other houses, on an invented continent drawn fresh each week: plains, forests, highlands, marshes, rivers, mountain ridges, sea lanes, towns and castles, all with invented names. Each turn you place troops, give up to three orders and see your exact chance before you attack; marches, battles and conquests are animated, and a reign ends with a short chronicle and a title. The whole family plays the same continent each week: the first reign you begin each day counts for the family's table (you can continue it on any device), and more reigns are practice with a personal best. Recording the family raises your renown and your levy. It never changes the family's records, and a steward switches it on.

• Who is this? Photographs nobody has tagged become a two-minute game. Anyone can suggest who is in a picture, and a contributor or editor confirms it.

• Talking to each other. Members answer a message, a memory, a photograph or an update with an emoji, from a quick row or a searchable palette, and contributors can comment. The one who wrote it sees the replies under "What's new", and can choose a push notification about them. The emoji data ships with Kindred, so the palette asks no outside server.

• Here now. Members see who of the family is in Kindred with them, on which page, and whom they have selected. "Show me to others" in the account menu stops sharing. Guests never see it.

docs/feed.md, docs/today.md, docs/campaign.md, docs/who-is-this.md, docs/responses.md and here now have the rules. A guest of a share link sees none of this. A guest can, however, ask for an account of their own, and the stewards decide.

What a researcher gets

A person's page holds their life on a timeline, their relatives, what has been written about them, and a drawn portrait.

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