How to build a private family tree together
Start with the relatives you know, invite your family to help, and keep names, relationships and photos in one private tree.
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Stories
Guides for building your private family tree and preserving the details your relatives remember, alongside stories from building Banyan.
How to preserve family photos and the memories behind them
Keep family photographs useful for the next generation by recording names, context and remembered details with the relatives who know them.
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Raya 2026 in numbers
How many photos did families tag? Which generation skipped the most? A look back at the festive season — anonymised, opt-in.
The family registrar handbook
Patterns we've watched form in the wild: how a handful of cousins keep a 90-person tree alive across three time zones.
Looking back: why we built Banyan at Hari Raya 2025
Forty cousins in one living room, half of them strangers. The story behind a collaborative family tree built for the people who already do the remembering.
“Every gathering, she rebuilds that map out loud. Every gathering, by next year, half of us have forgotten it again.”
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