The Kunbaa blog
Guides for family trees, private photo sharing, and preserving family history
Clear, practical posts on building a family tree, preserving photos and stories, recording oral history, and creating better habits for family communication, care, and reunion planning.
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Back to School 2027 in Australia: Dates and a Family Checklist
The first day of school in every state in 2027, a checklist from now to the first week, and how to share the jobs and the photos with family near and far.
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Diwali Family Poll Ideas: Ten Questions the Family Can Settle in a Tap
Which sweets, who hosts, what time is the call, where next year. Ten Diwali questions that are better asked as a poll than argued in a group chat, with answers to start from.
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How to Pick a Date for a Family Gathering Across Time Zones
A sister in Sydney, parents in Mumbai, a brother in London, cousins in Toronto. A method for finding the day and the hour that costs the fewest people their sleep, and a way to let the family choose.
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How to Plan Diwali with Family in Three Time Zones
Nani in Delhi, a son in London or Chicago, a daughter in Sydney. How to pick the host and puja time, share out the cooking, find one call time and get everyone's photos into one album.
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Kunbaa vs WhatsApp for Family Calls: Who Each Is For
A Kunbaa call can only come from a relative in your family space (no phone number handed out), and it starts beside the tree and photos you are talking about. WhatsApp carries the calls with a whole room on them. Here is what each one is actually for.
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How to Create a Family Tree Online, with Photos and the Whole Family
Seven steps to a family tree that lives online: start from yourself, put a face on every person, mark what you don't know, and invite the relatives who do. Plus what to check before you pick a tool.
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Living Abroad, Close to Family: A Practical Guide for NRIs
How families split across countries stay close: a call rhythm that respects time zones, birthdays nobody forgets, parents set up properly, one place for the photos, and children who know who everyone is.
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How to Share Family Photos Privately, Without Social Media
Four tests for private family photo sharing, how the usual options measure up, and how to set up a family space that only the relatives you invite can open, where the stories stay with the pictures.
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Every guide sits in one topic, so you can read a subject end to end.
- Family tree2Start a family tree from the people you know, then grow it with the relatives who know the rest.
- Photos & archives2Scan, caption and keep the family's photos so they can still be found in twenty years.
- Stories & oral history2Record the stories only your elders know, with consent, before they are gone.
- Privacy1Share family life with family only: invite-only spaces, no public profiles, no public feed.
- Events & reunions5Plan reunions, birthdays and gatherings with the whole family in one place.
- Families abroad1Stay close to family across countries, time zones and languages.
- Kunbaa & product1What Kunbaa does, how it works, and what is new.
- Comparisons1Kunbaa next to the apps families already use — who each one is for.
How to Plan a Family Reunion: A Timeline, Roles and Ideas That Work
A step-by-step plan for a family reunion: the three decisions to make first, a timeline from six months out, who does what, how to make it work for grandparents, children and relatives abroad, and how to keep the photos afterwards.
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Organizing Family Photos: Caption Conventions That Make Them Findable
Who, where, and when, written into every caption. The simple labelling habit that turns a pile of uploads into an archive you can actually search.
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Recording Better Voice Notes with Your Phone
Clear, consent‑first phone recordings with better mic technique, setup, and labeling.
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Add the people you know, invite the relatives who know the rest, and keep the photos and stories with the people in them. Private to your family.