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I was pretty sure “Kindo” didn’t mean anything before this site launched, especially not in the English language. But James Whitcomb Riley would disagree. He would probably even be offended.

James was an American poet who lived between 1853 and 1916. To a Swede as myself he’s completely unknown, but in Indiana, USA, children still learn some of his poems by heart.

James has written a poem called “When Frost Is on Punkin”. In the middle of it, this sentence shows up:

“They’s something kindo’ harty-like about the atmusfere”.

WHAT!

And then later down in the text: “The stubble in the furries–kindo’ lonesome-like, but still”

WHAT! (AGAIN)!

I was confused, and asked for help. And I got it from a fellow blogger:

“Something “kind of” hearty like about the atmosphere. Just a country colloquialism in spelling”.

Anyway, I hope James Whitcomb Riley (and the state of Indiana) doesn’t mind us trying to claim Kindo for ourselves.

(Thanks to Wikipedia for sources and picture).

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Here is a short demonstration on how to start a family tree on kindo and a preview of some of the features the application offers:

As a follow-up on yesterday’s post, we just want to inform all the Kindo users that we know will resend the old invitations that went out to Hotmail addresses. This, we do in order to ensure that your family members really have received them.

Please let us know if you still have suspicions that some emails haven’t reached the inboxes!

DISCLAIMER: If your mother-in-law doesn’t reply to your invitation, it MAY be other reasons behind…

“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”… Those words of Neil Armstrong from 1969 could just as well refer to the project of getting Hotmail to work with Kindo.

As reported earlier, we have had problems with emails going from Kindo to Hotmail addresses. Some of them haven’t reached their recipients at all, while others have ended up in the junk mail-folder. Now after intense work from the tech guys in our office, we think we have solved the problem but we want to check that with you:

- Do the invitations you send out to you family members get through properly?

Remember that you always can use Kindo’s new invitation overview panel to see the status of the emails. There, you can also send out a reminder to your family members that haven’t taken action yet.

As much as many people report that they like the looks of Kindo and are fascinated by the tree building, it’s also true that the real fun begins when other family members step in!

>Lots of love to the Kindo community from Uncle Martin!

Lauren Lubeck Blair and David E. Hough from Tennessee, married each other for the 83th time on August 16th, 2004 in Las Vegas. Their first marriage was in 1984 and, since then, they haven’t stopped renewing their wows.

“We love telling at each other we love each other and looking ito each other’s eyes and saying our wows”, said David.

We just hope it’s not only for the gifts!

As seen in Record Guiness website

Not sure how scientific this is, but The Daily Telegraph shows how to test if you’re mostly using your left or right brain. And depending on the answer, there are a lot of generalizations to be made about your personality.

I’ve asked my family to tell me the result of the test. Maybe this can explain why we never can agree on what TV-channel to watch…

Right now there are lots of proud moms and pops here at our Putney offices! Today we’ve just released our first public version of Kindo [www.kindo.com], along with some nice improvements to our baby:

1. Pruning is better (and you can use your keyboard to move your family tree around)
2. Invitations are smoother (and we’re playing nicer with Hotmail)
3. Your profile page has more information for your family (more status updates, and a better calendar)

Since we’re no longer in “beta”, you can be sure that your tree and pages will work as expected. So continue to build your beautiful trees, and share it with your whole family. And tell your friends to start their own tree too!

We feel we’re far from the finished article - Kindo will grow up, evolve, and get bigger and better all the time. We’ve launched a new Kindo forum [http://forum.kindo.com] too, which is a good place to ask questions if you need any help. Please tell us what you do and don’t like about Kindo, and also tell us how you want it to grow too!

Bye for now!

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During our various stringent tests of kindo, we have experienced a few problems where we have been unable to drag a tree around the screen. We are working on this problem and have been able to improve it to a certain extent.

However, if it still occurs and you are unable to navigate, we have introduced a feature where one is able to move the tree around by using the cursor key on ones keyboard.

Another solution to the problem is to give your browser a quick refresh…We’re hoping to solve this problem completely in the near future!

Something I blogged about way back in Feb of 2006, but which has become more relevant of late!

Thanks to a University College London project, you’re able to search census databases to see the distribution of surnames in GB.

From the National Trust Names website:

Do you know where your surname comes from, or how many people you share it with? To find out more about your history, click on ‘Search for a Surname’.

Welcome to the National Trust Names. website which presents the findings of a project based at University College London (UCL) that is investigating the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current and historic. It allows users to search the databases that we have created, and to trace the geography and history of their family names. On each page of the website, you will find a Help link on the top-right corner which We hope will answer any questions you might have.

So for instance, I can see that the surname Knight is related to Knightley, Knighton and Knights; and is based primarily in the South East of England, in Taunton…

Pretty interesting stuff since my family originally moved from England to South Africa…

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