Kindo Family Blog

According to our research, Tamm, Saar, and Mägi are the three most popular last names in Estonia.

They’re all beautiful names, but my favorite is Pikknurm, which in Estonian means “Long Lea” (thanks Andrus for translation).

Welcome to our family of last names, Estonia.

One way to share what data you have and note what data you need is to post your genealogy on the web. Before you do that, however, please read the Guidelines For Publishing Web Pages On The Internet. This document sets out the best ways to make your page findable and useable by other genealogists.

How do you publish? Why using the Kindo interface, of course, is one easy way. Just remember this important rule: Leave out data on living persons if you can.

That brings up another point, that is very, very important. Some folks are afraid that their hard work and research might be “stolen” from the Internet, so they deliberately insert factual errors on their web pages.

Dont. Do. That.

Ever.

If you have data you want to keep in reserve for future information swaps, simply omit it. If you have data you want to keep private until you publish your hardbound, limited edition genealogy, that’s fine. And of course, never publish anything that could be used to steal your identity.

But do not ever publish anything, in print or online, that you know to be false. It’s extremely difficult to remove all traces of anything on the Web, and that incorrect information may linger longer than you do!

Happy Family Tree Climbing!

EPC

We have managed to get Kindo.com up and running again, but there a still a few minor problems that we are currently working on. The following things are not functioning at the moment, but should be restored to full working order shortly:

• Photo albums
• The forum
• Help section

We do apologise for the inconvenience caused, by the recent technical problems.

We’re currently experiencing a few technical problems and doing some maintenance on Kindo. We hope to have the site up and running again as soon as possible.

Thanks for you patience, we’ll be seeing you soon

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), the sixteenth President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest crisis, the Civil War, only to be assassinated less than a month after the war’s end. Before his election as President, he was a lawyer, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. Kindo has Linconln’s family tree.

William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the forty-second President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president. He is the husband of New York Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. The famous Clinton family is up here on Kindo. Visit their family tree here.

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. He served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and is the eldest son of former American President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush. On October 7, 2001, U.S. and Australian forces initiated bombing campaigns that led to the arrival on November 13 of Northern Alliance troops in Kabul. The main goals of the war were to defeat the Taliban, drive al Qaeda out of Afghanistan, and capture key al Qaeda leaders. In December 2001, the Pentagon reported that the Taliban had been defeated but cautioned that the war would go on to continue weakening Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders. Later that month the UN had installed the Afghan Interim Authority chaired by Hamid KarzaiHe was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2001 and his current term is scheduled to end at noon EST (17:00 UTC) on Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Check out his family tree here.

For more information about other celebrity trees visit our celebrity family trees page.

It’s always interesting to get feedback from users - blame or praise. Thanks KL for sending us this mail which made us all happy!

By the way… we hope you have wireless internet back home so you can sit in the sun while building your family tree…

Subject: A wonderful website!

Oh my, how happy I was to find this page

I have for a long time wanted to make my family tree, but on paper it’s so cumbersome.

I’m so happy sitting here all days

Once again, THANKS - now I’ve finally got started with my genealogy!!!!!!

Best Regards //KL in Sweden

All of them are new faces in the section Kindo Celebrity Trees

New faces today are the golfer Tiger Woods (just announced that a wounded knee will make him miss the rest of the season), the tennis champ Roger Federer (now playing in Wimbledon) and the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates.
We encourage all of you to drop a comment here if you would like to see a special celebrity’s family tree.

Image via WikipediaAmitabh Bachchan (Born as Amitabh Harivansh Srivastav on October 11, 1942 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh), is one of the most prominent Indian film actors of Hindi cinema. He gained popularity in India in the 1970s as an action hero and over the decades of his career which have since spanned numerous film genres, he has become one of the most prominent figures in the history of Indian cinema.

Amitabh Bachchan holds the record for the most number of Best Actor nominations at the Filmfare Awards and has won three National Film Awards and twelve Filmfare Awards to date. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a playback singer, film producer and television presenter of Kaun Banega Crorepati, India’s version of the British television game-show, who wants to be a Millionaire? He was also an elected member of the Indian Parliament from 1984 to 1987.

Amitabh Bachchan is the father of bollywood hero Abhishek Bachchan. Kindo has his family tree. For more information about other celebrity trees visit our celebrity family trees page.

The Kindo Team is glad to inform you that we’ve been covered on the ‘digital content blog’ which is part of Guardian newspaper’s online avtaar guardian.co.uk.

Excerpts from the article:

“Kindo was started in April 2007 and went live that October; the idea is a family communication service built around a family tree. The service is backed by some well-lnown characters from London’s start-up scene including Saul and Robin Klein at TAG - the guys behind Stardoll, Lovefilm and Moo, amongst others - along with Last.fm’s first investor Stefan Glänzer and ASI, the investment firm started by Skype’s founding engineers.”

read the entire piece at the digital content blog

To read the entire article please visit the digital content blog.

After me and Nils have tried to explain this more than one time to the rest of the Kindo troopers, I will here briefly tell you about how we in Sweden celebrate the summer solstice.

In Sweden, Midsummer’s Eve, is celebrated on the Friday between June 19-25, this year June 20, a bank holiday. Most Swedes would argue that this is one of the most important holidays of the year and we celebrate it in a unique way. People find their way out to the country side or the archipelago where they traditionally raise a huge maypole covered in green leaves and flowers. Summer dressed Swedes then perform ring-dances around the pole with singing and folk music in the background. Typical is the frog dance

Maybe even more important is the food: The year’s first potatoes, herring, maybe raw spiced salmon and strawberry cake is on the menu on many tables. Drinking songs together with this is popular. Maybe too popular.

Starting as a Pre-Christian ceremony to celebrate the longest day of the year, magic was believed to be extra strong. Still, many girls pick a bouquet of seven different flowers which they place under their pillow. The tradition say that they now will dream of their future husband to add to their Kindo tree

This is it for me, now I’m off for the west-coast!