Guides
Family & heritage guides
Stories and how-tos on building your family tree, understanding what you truly call each relative in your own language, and preserving your family's memories — the way EnVergal is meant to be used.
Free tools
- What do I call them? — build any relationship and see exactly what you call them in your own language (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi and more).
- How are we related? — the cousin calculator: work out first cousins, second cousin once removed, and everything in between.
- Relationship names in your language — the full reference of what you call every relative, in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu.
Guides
- Indian family relationships, explained — chacha, mama, bua, mausi and more: why every relative has its own precise word, and how to say it in your language.
- How to build a family tree — a simple, step-by-step way to start: begin with yourself, record the elders first, and capture the details before they're lost.
- Recording the elders who came before — why the ancestors come first, the questions that open a family's memory, and how they connect you to living relatives.
- Preserving your family's memories — rescue the photographs, name who's in them, and keep the stories and dates that make a family its own.
Coming soon
More guides are on the way:
- Finding relatives you've never met — How a shared ancestor reconnects a family that time and distance scattered.
- How to interview your grandparents — The questions that unlock a lifetime of memory — and how to record it well.
- Naming traditions across India — How a name carries lineage, region and community, and what it tells you about your family.
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