Kindo Family Blog

The contact importer on Kindo is now online and fully tested. It makes it much easier for you to invite your relatives to your tree as you can now automatically draw their emailaddresses from your existing address books at webmail services like GMail, Hotmail or Yahoo or even from your email clients like Outlook Express or Thunderbird.

Our software developpers have really done an amazing job here. It’s a great improvement, as you do not have to type in all the email addresses manually anymore, and the system will even try to match the names from your address book to the relatives in your Kindo tree. But lets go through the simple three-step-process in detail:

Let’s imagine you are William and have built a small tree of your close family, like this one.

You have invited your brother Harry already, but don’t want to type all the others’ emails again. And actually you are emailing them regularly anyway, so the addresses are all there in your webmail account!

Step 1: Select webmail service and enter login details

Well, now you just go to the yellow invite - tab and click on “import from your favourite webmail service”. You select which webmail service you want to import from; we offer a long list with services from all over the world, so William’s : The three big ones Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo, followed by this long list in alphabetical order: AOL, Fastmail, Freenet, GMX, ICQmail, Indiatimes, Interia, Libero, LinkedIn, Lycos, .mac, mail.com, mail.ru, mynet, O2, Rambler, Rediffmail, Sapo, T-Online, web.de, WPPL, yahoo.jp and Yandex.

You just enter your login details for your webmail and select with the small box, if you want to keep your address book details in Kindo, so it’s available once you have added more relatives to the tree. All the data is transmitted securely and we will NOT store the login details for your webmail service at all! So neither Charles nor you have to worry about data protection issues; by the way you can find our detailed privacy policy here. Just hit next and…

Kindo will import your relatives’ email addresses automatically (Step 2)

Nothing much you need to do here, except maybe waiting for a couple of seconds in case you have a really huge address book. You will then be dropped to step 3, where you confirm that the matched persons are your relatives and can send the invites.

Step 3: Confirm the matched relatives and send invites

Kindo will mark people in red, if there are exact matches with people in your tree. You just need to click on “select family member” and Kindo will show you the matched person’s name (that you can alter, in case it shouldn’t be correct). Do the same for people that have not been recognized and select their identity manually, like Williams did for Charles in this case

You find the suggested text for the invitations below the list of names and can make some changes to title or text. Just hit “send invitations” when you like the text and you are done. Like for manual invitations you should see the green box on the profiles that you have invited on the bright blue our tree - tab. And you can see the status of your invites on the invitation history page, below the yellow invite tab. But once your relatives join that news will appear in the family news feed on the dark-greenish our family - tab

So invite your relatives to join Kindo and you can share the fun of a common place for sharing thoughts and memories!

With Nils, Martin, Demian and me there was quite a big “Kindo delegation” at the London Minibar yesterday. It is a “mini barcamp”, so more serious than it may sound in the headline. Well, essentially it is about having a beer with some other internet-guys and listed to some new tech-stuff Among the topics presented was zemanta, the Slovenian blog-plugin that is also funded by TAG.
Some other interesting sites included the internet-notes piins.com and the social shopping app gimme.

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Researchers from the New England Historic Genealogical Society found out that there are family ties between Barack Obama and Bratt Pitt, as well as between Hillary Clinton and Pitt’s partner Angelina Jolie. The Guardian was only one of the several newspaper reporting on this today.

Kindo’s graphical version of Barack Obama’s family tree is still one of the most comprehensive way’s of showing this family data. We will obviously update the Kindo family tree according to the new data asap, but you can go and browse there already now!

Hi I am Sophiane!I am the new country manager in France for Kindo, and even if my name doesn`t sound very French, I am French

Actually I am French and Algerian. Although i have always lived in Paris, i feel both: French AND Algerian. My parents used to live in North Africa and some family members still live there. Fortunately, there is Kindo to keep in touch -

I am a 22 year-old business student, with a strong passion for technology and entrepreneurship.
I like discovering new things,new ways of thinking, new cultures… That is why i learn Chinese (my fifth language) and I am involved in an association that helps people learn about Chinese culture.
I am also the founder and organiser of a theatrical Improvisation Student association and I like it !

I hope to see you around! Feel free to send me emails to sophiane@kindo.com

We’re delighted to tell you that finally it is out. It is great to see that US presidential candiate Barack Obama’s family tree has now become public after several days of thinking and execution effort

Barack Obama has a truly multi-cultural family as his ancestors hail from different parts of the globe. However, we realized that building Barack’s family tree would be another value-addition for all his fans and followers.

Here is a Youtube video showing Barack Obama’s family tree

Catch more action about Barack Obama and other celebrity trees here. To check out Barack Obama’s family tree visit here. Spread the word and enjoy

If you’re an English speaker, refrech Kindo - there’s a little surprise waiting for you… And more still to come while we translate it…

Any feedback would be most appreciated of course!!!

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We’re busy working on photos as we type (so to blog ;-)) and have some questions we’d like to throw out to the Kindo family…

So without further ado, here they are:

• What online photo services do you use?
• How many photos do you expect to upload to Kindo?
• What kindo of video media are you using?

Please feel free to leave comments on this post, or to post your thoughts and ideas in the forum…

Thanks in advance!!
gareth

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photo credit: majorvols

photo credit: ediepeters

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Our favourite TV-show on BBC “Who do you think you are” - about genealogy and where famous people are guided through their family’s history, is holding a live event in May 2-4 in London Grand Hall, Olympia.

Peek behind the scences, mingling opportunities and help from experts is promised on this event where also Military History and Archealogy will be in focus. If you are interested in learning more about genealology and also see the enthusiastic celebrities, this is definitely worth checking out. More information and tickets here.

The Kindo family is putting the event in our calendar, are you?

Today, I would like to introduce you to the family with the most active members among the Turkish speaking families.

Aksoy family is so happy to be part of Kindo because of the opportunity to stay in touch with the family not only in Bayrams but anytime they want.

The founder of the family tree Hasip Can Aksoy commented on Kindo and said: We have family members all over the world. Not only do we live in Turkey but also in any part of the world. I am so grateful that you provide this kind of free service on the Internet. We can only add those family members to our tree whom we can remember. We cannot reach our ancestors because of loss of documents. However, the next generations now have a chance to know about their past and we are now providing the basis for keeping a good and up-to-date family tree.

In addition to that, Mr. Hasip Aksoy told us he would like to get a print out of the family tree and he asked for some corrections in the family tree for some special cases like marriages within family. He further added: Kindo is very very successful in terms of solving a real world problem and being user friendly, besides it is free to use. If God wills, I would like to have a copy of my family tree on CD together with the topics I described earlier and I believe Kindo will do that.

In the mean time just to mention, in this family picture taken in the last Ramadan Festival while visiting parents, Mr. Hasip is the man in front in black suits with a tie and rosette. His daughter and nephews are hugging in front. It’s a lovely family picture with so many members in it.

We wish them to stay together in love and have a larger family

Since the time we’ve been there we have received and heard some great words of encouragement from different sets and categories of bloggers. Here’s a quick excerpt of some of the quotes. Thank you all, please keep the feedback coming as it is very helpful and motivating.

Peter Black @ Freedom to Differ - Kindo covers the “next generation” family tree, with communication features, stats and a family ‘news feed’ not unlike a Facebook feed. Perhaps it’s stand-out proposition is that because it is already translated into 14 languages including Russian, Arabic and Chinese it will be aimed at groups traditionally associated with a tight-knit sense of family.

Facebook Trending - This social network, more popularly billed as the Facebook for family members is called as Kindo.com. Kindo’s goal is quiet simple connect everyone in your family at one singe place. Yeah! That is Kindo for you. Started by a bunch of spirited but enthusiastic guys Kindo is based out of the buzzing city of London in the UK.

Jason Hammond @ Head Tale - I surfed to MetaFilter that night and lo and behold, there was a link to a new site named Kindo that does something along that line, although not nearly as fully-featured as a hardcore genealogist would want.

Mark Iddon - This is basically a free Genealogy website that does what most of the pay sites have been doing for a while. Nice and easy to set up it does what it sets out to do.

Thank you so much once again.