Your family, together. Your stories, forever.

1. Open Parivarwale and press Begin your family. Type your name and, if you like, the year you were born.
2. Choose who to start with — your parents, your grandparents, or your brothers and sisters.
3. Type your mobile number, your email and a strong password. We send one 6-digit code by SMS and one by email, just this once, to check they’re yours. After that you sign in with your number (or email) and password — no codes. (Can’t see the email? Look in Spam, and in Gmail’s Promotions tab.)
4. Tap a + place — “+ Father”, “+ Mother” — and type their full name. Watch the tree grow.

Codes by SMS work for Indian mobile numbers. Anywhere else, choose Use my email instead on the same screen.

Use full names, as written on documents like the Aadhaar card — not nicknames. If two relatives each type Dada-ji differently, he appears twice.

At the bottom of the screen there are five buttons:

• Home — what is new in your family, birthdays, and things waiting for you.
• Family — your family tree.
• Memories — stories, photographs, voice recordings and the family timeline.
• Messages — private messages with relatives.
• You — your page, your Parivarwale ID and your settings.

At the top are small buttons to search, to ask a question about your family, and to see notifications.

1. Open Family and press the round + button (“Add someone to your family”). You can also open anybody’s page, go to their Family tab and press Add a relative.
2. Choose who they are — Mother, Father, Brothers, Sisters, Grandmother, Uncles, Cousins and so on.
3. Say how many (for example, 2 brothers) and type each full name.
4. If you know it, add when they were born, or tick “They have passed away”. Then press Add to the family.

Don’t know a name? Choose “I don’t know their name” — the place is kept so someone else can fill it in.

If the person may already be in the family, Parivarwale asks “You may already have this person”. Press That’s them to connect the same person instead of adding them twice.

• Drag to move around, pinch (or use the buttons) to zoom.
• Line up — Left, Centre or Right — changes how each generation is arranged. Centre is the usual.
• Centre on me brings you back to yourself.
• Tap any person to see how you’re related, step by step, and to open their page.
• Under the tree you can switch to Generations, a simple List, or Lifespans.
• The family switcher at the top shows your father’s side, your mother’s side, or all connected family.

Tap anyone’s name to open their page. It has tabs:

• Their story — what they wrote about their own life.
• Memories of them — what relatives remember, each with the writer’s name.
• Timeline — their life in order: born, school, marriage, work…
• Photos, Family and Details (who added each fact, and from where).

Press Edit to correct their details, the camera button to add their photograph, and See on the tree to find them in the tree. You can also add their Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and other links, and choose who can see each one.

Tap anyone in the tree, or press See the path on their page. Parivarwale shows the exact steps — You → Mother → her brother → his son — and the name for it: your cousin. It is worked out from your family tree, never guessed.

You can also press the Ask button at the top and type questions like “Who are my cousins?” or “Whose birthday is next?”.

Press the search button at the top and type a name, a year or a place. It finds people, memories and life events in your family.

Their page stays as a Remembered page — with their story, memories, photos and voice. Close family can record that someone has passed away, and choose how they are remembered: a garland and lamp, a candle, flowers, or just the word. Remembered pages can be added to, but are protected from being removed.

1. Open the person’s page and press Write a memory. (On your own page it says Add to your story.)
2. Write what you remember — a few words or many pages. If you’re stuck, the ideas under “Not sure where to start?” help.
3. Choose Who can see this? and press Keep this memory.

Your name stays on what you write, and only you can edit it. If you remove a memory, it can be put back.

1. Open Memories, press Add, then Add photos or a video (or a voice recording).
2. Choose the file, write what it is, when and where it was taken, and press Add it.
3. On the photo’s page, say who is in it — then it appears on each of their pages too.

Put photos together in Albums — “Didi’s wedding”, “The village house”. Each file can be up to 50 MB, and each person can keep up to 2 GB.

On a person’s Timeline tab press Add a life event — a wedding, a new job, moving house. Use Add a date for a wedding anniversary or a day of remembrance. Birthdays come from the date of birth, so there’s no need to add them.

• This week’s question — a new one every Monday, like “What is the earliest thing you can remember?”. Write or say your answer; it becomes a memory.
• Birthdays and on this day — who has a birthday or anniversary coming up.
• Cards — press Add your wishes on a birthday and the whole family can sign one card, with a photo or a voice note. On a remembrance day, press Light a card.

1. Open You → Invite your family.
2. Press Invite next to someone already in your tree, or Make a general invitation link.
3. Press Send on WhatsApp (or Copy the link). Send it to that person directly, not to a group.

When they open it, they press Yes — I’m … and their page becomes theirs. A link works once and stops after 30 days.

Everyone gets a Parivarwale ID like PW-7X29A4, shown on the You page. It is safe to share — on its own it only lets someone ask to connect.

1. Open You → Connecting families.
2. Type your relative’s ID, press Find them, say how you’re related, and press Send the request.
3. They check your ID and press Yes, we’re related. Now both branches see each other.

Connecting never shares anything marked private, and never joins two people into one without asking.

If a relative already added you, open your page and press This is me. The person who added you (or your family) is asked to confirm. Once confirmed, only you can change your own details — but memories others wrote about you stay theirs.

If two pages might be the same person, Parivarwale asks under You → Possible duplicate records. Nothing is joined automatically — a person decides, and a join can be undone.

If two relatives give different dates (1958 or 1959?), both are kept and shown with who said each. Nothing is overwritten.

Open Messages and tap a relative to write to them, or press Start a group, choose who is in it and give it a name. You can send photos, videos, voice messages, a person from the tree, or a memory. Only the people in a conversation can read it. You can message relatives who are on Parivarwale.

Everything you add has a “Who can see this?” choice:

• Only me — nobody else, not even your family.
• My family — everyone in your family circle. This is the usual.
• A few people — only the people you pick.
• Anyone — anyone with the link.

Photos are never at a public web address. Paying never gives anybody access to a family. Read more in what we do with your information.

Open You → Take a copy with you. Your family book (prints) makes a printable book of your family; Everything as data downloads all of it. It’s yours — you never need an account to open it.

You sign in with your mobile number or email, and your password. If you sign in on a phone or computer you haven’t used before, we email you “Is this you?” — press Yes, it’s me and you’re in; press No and they stay out. Forgot your password? Press Forgotten your password? — we send a code by SMS (or a link by email). On the You page: Change your password, Sign out on all my devices (if you lose a phone), and Close your account. More in closing your account.