Guides
Guides to tracing your family
Practical help for building a family tree that goes further back, written for Indian families and the records they actually have.
How to trace your family roots, step by step
A practical, step-by-step way to trace your family roots in India, from what you already know to elders, documents, your native village and old records.
Read the guideKul, vansh and old records: tracing a family in Maharashtra
Where Maharashtrian families can find their lineage: kuldaivat and devak, 7/12 and ferfar land records, school registers, tirth purohit registers and the State Archives.
Read the guide50 questions to ask your family elders
The questions that unlock names, places and stories when you sit down with grandparents and older relatives, plus tips for recording their answers.
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