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Themes across generations
The themes that recur in your family across decades. Threads of partnership, work, distance, and reunion. The shape of the family story, surfaced from the record itself.
For the kinkeeper of the family.
The library, finally, modernized.
The kinkeeper holds the threads, remembers the names, knows the relationships, and carries the family record forward across generations. The Kinkeepers is the genealogy platform built for that role, with multi-generational family intelligence layered onto your tree and a library that finally honors the work.
Be among the first
What we are building
Multi-generational family intelligence, modernized.
The kinkeeper has always been the family's archivist and the keeper of its threads. The Kinkeepers gives the role tools the work has never had, surfacing themes that have always been there but never been visible at this resolution.
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GEDCOM import and integrations
Bring your family tree from the major genealogy platforms. The Kinkeepers reads the structure, recognizes the relationships, and starts surfacing the threads the structure has been holding all along.
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The living and the ancestral, in one view
Your living family and your ancestors, connected. The kinkeeper's library, modernized. One place to hold the names, the dates, the threads, and now the themes that connect them.
The kinkeeping principle
The role has always existed. Now it has a tool.
"Kinkeeping refers to the work of keeping family members in touch with one another." Carolyn Rosenthal, sociologist · 1985
The kinkeeper is the family member who holds the threads. Who remembers birthdays. Who knows the names of cousins and great-aunts. Who tracks the relationships across the generations. The role is largely uncompensated, often invisible, and almost always essential.
Modern research has expanded this role into what sociologists now call the Family Archivist: the kinkeeper-genealogist hybrid who blends living-family coordination with ancestral preservation. Most family archivists do this work in spreadsheets, sticky notes, and shoe boxes of photos.
For four decades, sociology has called this work "invisible labor." We refuse the framing. By naming the role and building the tool, we make the kinkeeper visible to her family, to her work, and to herself.
The Kinkeepers is built for that role. The library, modernized.
Coming 2026
Be the first to hold the record.
The Kinkeepers waitlist is open. We will write when we are ready to let the first kinkeepers in.