Family tree guides
Practical help for building your family's tree: where to start, how to organize a large extended family, what every relative is called, and how to take your tree with you.
How to make a family tree: a step-by-step guide
A practical guide to making a family tree: what to collect, who to ask, how to record dates and places you only half know, and how to build it together with relatives.
Read the guide →Trah and bani: organizing a large extended-family tree
How Indonesian extended families (a trah or bani) can build one shared family tree with hundreds of members: dividing the work by branch, keeping it private, and using it at reunions.
Read the guide →Indonesian and Javanese kinship terms explained
What buyut, canggah, wareng, udheg-udheg, ipar, besan, pakdhe and misanan mean: Indonesian and Javanese family terms for every generation, with English equivalents.
Read the guide →What is GEDCOM? Exporting your family tree
GEDCOM is the standard file format for moving a family tree between genealogy apps. What it contains, which apps read it, and how to export your tree from Sakdulur as GEDCOM, Excel or JSON.
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