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  • Spanish-speaking Family with more profiles

    Let me introduce you to the Spanish-speaking family with the biggest number of profiles in Kindo.

    In concrete, you can see the youngest generation of the family: Paz, Santiago, Soledad y Nico, who planted the family tree. These four cousins have managed to create the largest tree amongst the Spanish-speaking community in just a few weeks. [...]

  • Happy New Year from Kindo!

    I would like to wish you all a happy 2008 in behalf of the whole Kindo team. We all hope you’re celebrating these days with your families, just like us. And remember that it’s the perfect occasion to let them know about Kindo !

  • Christmas Blogging: Spanish Christmas 2

    As a continuation of our series of Christmas blogging, I would like to tell you about Spanish Christmas today.

    In Spain, the traditional ornament of the season is the “Nacimiento” or “Belén” , which represents Nativity scenes with figures made of clay, plaster or wood. Normally every house has one and they differ a lot: from [...]

  • Christmas Blogging: The Spanish "Saint Innocents"

    There are several Spanish traditions in Christmas time, but I’ld like to tell you about one in particular, for you to get your jokes ready in a week time.
    On December, the 28th, Spanish people tend not to believe any weird news on TV and to watch their backs, because we celebrate the “Saint Innocents’ Day”, [...]

  • Oh yes! They do!

    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 [...]

  • A long-lasting love

    Thomas Morgan (born in Glamorganshire, UK, on May 4, 1786) married Elizabeth (born in Monmouthshire, UK, on January 17, 1786) at Caerleon on May 4, 1809,
    They remained married for 81 years 260 days until Elizabeth’s death on January 19, 1891.
    At this time Elizabeth was aged 105 years 2 days and Thomas was 104 [...]

  • The woman who gave birth to 69 children

    Mrs Vassilet (1816-1872) holds that record and she deserves it! This Russian lady was the first wife of Fyodor Vassilet, a farmer from Shuya, and went through no less than 27 pregnancies! But the most impressive fact is that she had twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 times quadruplets, which brings us to [...]

  • What families eat around the world

    We know that, all around the world, families are very different. In his book “Hungry Planet”, Peter Menzel helps us getting closer to some of these differences. The author has lead a research with families in 24 countries and tells us about them, while displaying some of his beautiful pictures.

    Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira [...]

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