KeralaPalakkad
The Nair Family of Palakkad
7 generations128 membersEst. 1782Gotra · Kashyapa
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The Iyer familyThanjavur · 1962
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Four tools, one archive. Every family record, portrait and card lives inside your private account — yours forever, and only ever shared on your terms.
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Your family tree
Add ancestors, siblings, spouses and children. Auto-arranged by generation, saved forever.
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Birthdays, anniversaries, memorials — pick an occasion, upload a portrait, AI helps with words, download the keepsake.
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A portrait gallery
Upload photographs of the people in your archive. Reuse them across trees, memorials and cards.
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Indian heritage, deeply
98 topics — festivals, villages, gotras, traditions — with AI-written editorials and downloadable magazine cards.
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Every family deserves more than a list of names.
Six chapters that shape how we build. Slow craft over quick features. A tharavad, not a spreadsheet.
- 01Family Tree Builder
Roots that remember
Build unlimited family trees. Multi-generational, matrilineal, adopted, chosen — every kind of belonging fits here.
- 02Memory Vault
Stories that survive
Record oral histories, letters, recipes and diaries. Preserve grandmother's voice before it becomes a rumour.
- 03Heritage Maps
A village on a map
Pin ancestral homes, temples, gurudwaras, mosques and cemeteries. Trace old district boundaries and migration routes.
- 04Surnames & Gotras
Names with meaning
Research surnames, gotras, kulams, kuladevatas and traditional occupations across regions of India.
- 05Diaspora Timelines
One family, many shores
Visualise migration — Village to city, India to UK, US, Canada, Australia, East Africa and the Gulf.
- 06SocialPulse Network
The network of memory
IndianFamilyTree is part of the SocialPulse network — your genealogy connects to places, events and communities.
The card studio
A keepsake for every passage of a life.
Compose a birthday wish, a memorial, an anniversary card, a naming ceremony announcement — with AI-suggested words and any portrait you upload.
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A tree you can touch.
Tap any portrait. Watch the connections light up. This is a taste — the real tree can hold ten generations, adopted lines, step-families and every branch of your kin.
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Great-grandfather
Bhaskaran Nair
1901 — 1989
HomeKalpathy, Palakkad
StorySanskrit scholar. Kept the tharavad ledgers in Malayalam script and Tamil verse.
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Every family comes from somewhere.
Browse Country → State → District → Village. Historical boundaries, old maps, population history and migration routes for the place your grandparents called home.
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Celebrate a life · Memorials
A place to light a candle.
Every family has someone whose absence still shapes the room. Create memorial pages, share stories and light a candle — carried across the SocialPulse network so distant relatives can grieve, and remember, together.
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Grandmother · Storyteller
Lakshmi Amma Nair
1918 — 2009 · Kalpathy, Palakkad
“Matriarch of the Kalpathy tharavad. Told stories the walls remembered.”
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Great-grandfather · Publisher
Vitthal Rao Desai
1902 — 1978 · Panhala, Kolhapur
“Set the first Marathi printing press in Bombay. Believed a page could hold a village.”
1,567
Grandfather · Trader
Sardar Harbans Singh
1931 — 2016 · Attari, Amritsar
“Rode the Grand Trunk Road with cloth bales and a transistor. Every arrival was a poem.”
2,103
Great-grandmother · Vocalist
Savitri Iyer
1925 — 2011 · Kumbakonam, Thanjavur
“Sang Thyagaraja krithis every dawn for eighty-six years, Cauvery keeping time.”
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Old temples, wells, banyan trees, and the elders who remember
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Diaspora Stories
Nairobi, Fiji, Yorkshire, New Jersey — home carried in a suitcase
Architecture
Historic Family Homes
Wadas, tharavads, havelis and courtyards
Livelihoods
Traditional Occupations
Weavers, priests, potters, seafarers — a nation's trades
Migration stories
One family, many shores.
An interactive timeline that follows your family across generations and continents — from a coastal village to a foreign winter, and the letters in between.
- Village→CityPalakkad → Bombay, 1956
- India→United KingdomPunjab → Southall, 1967
- India→East AfricaGujarat → Nairobi, 1898
- India→United StatesAndhra → New Jersey, 1985
- India→CanadaPunjab → Brampton, 1974
- India→AustraliaKerala → Melbourne, 2003
Historical records
The paper trail your family left behind.
Search census, land, temple, church and mosque records; birth, marriage, death, school and military archives; court files, gazetteers and old newspapers.
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