Product features

Practical tools for the African family record

Kinwyse helps families map lineage, preserve oral memory, document cultural context, and collaborate with care.

Genealogy

Family tree building

Create family branches and connect relationships across generations.

Memory

Keep elder stories, testimonies, and memory notes close to the people they describe.

Identity

Capture naming history, clan details, and cultural context as part of the record.

Family

Invite family members and manage roles for contribution, review, and viewing.

Premium

Premium discovery can surface possible links based on overlapping family context.

Security

Protect sensitive family information behind account and permission boundaries.

Research

Preserve contested stories without forcing premature agreement or automatic merging.

Storage

Keep important photos, documents, and notes available beyond physical archives.

Roadmap

Gravesite and homestead record support is planned for a future release.

Oral memory

In many families, history is carried by the voices of living relatives. Kinwyse treats stories as part of the record, not as loose notes.

Capture elder stories before details are lost.

Preserve emotional context with names and relationships.

Keep voice-led history visible beside structured records.

The product is organized around ordinary preservation work that families can continue over time.

Start with immediate relatives, then add older generations as names, records, and stories are gathered.

Store memory, source notes, and cultural details where future relatives can understand them.

Invite trusted contributors without making private family records public by default.

Start your first family tree at no cost and preserve your family story over time.