Guides

How to create a family tree

A practical walkthrough: start from the contacts you already have, link the first relationship, let the reverse one be created, and grow outward from there.

How to organise family contacts

A method for a large address book: relationships first, then groups for the shared spaces, then private tags for everything that cuts across them.

How to keep track of family relationships

Record the connections once, let reciprocal relationships and inference do the maintenance, and keep a timeline so you remember what happened as well as who is who.

How to organise relatives

How to split an extended family into groups that stay useful, and when a private tag is the better tool.

How to remember family birthdays

Record birthdays and anniversaries as key dates on the people they belong to, and let the ones coming up surface on their own.

How to document family memories

Record family stories while the people who remember them are still here — attached to the people they are about, with photos, dates and places.

How to know how someone is related to you

You recognise the name but cannot place the person. A practical method for working out and then recording exactly how someone in your contacts is connected to you.

How to keep track of in-laws

A spouse's family is a second family you joined as an adult, without growing up learning who is who. How to map it once so you stop guessing.

How to remember distant relatives

Second cousins, great-aunts and the people you see twice a decade. How to record enough that you recognise them next time without building a full genealogy.

How to manage hundreds of contacts

An address book past a few hundred entries stops being a list and becomes a search problem. A practical approach to making a large contact list usable again.

How to add tags to contacts

Tags are private labels that cut across groups — Doctor, Plumber, a city. How to choose tags that stay useful and how assignment works in TreeLinker.

How to organize family events

Family gatherings fall apart in group chats. How to settle the decision, keep the discussion findable, and record what happened afterwards.

How to organize family photos and memories

Photo libraries are organised by date, which is the least useful way to find a family memory. How to organise by person instead.

How to organise your phone contacts

A one-evening method for an address book ten years deep: delete what is dead, merge the duplicates, name people the way you would search for them, then label only the ones you actually need to find.

How to back up your phone address book safely

Sync is not a backup. The five-minute account setup, the quarterly vCard export, and why that export is the most sensitive file you will ever own.

Is it safe to store your address book in TreeLinker?

The honest version: you do not store it in TreeLinker at all. Exactly what leaves your phone, what stays on it, what is kept on your account, and which part is genuinely worth thinking about.