Add Person

Adding a Person to Your Family Tree

Build out your family tree by adding one person at a time, with just their name or with a fuller profile. Handy when you are mapping the guest side of a wedding, or recording who belongs to which branch before invitations go out.

Prerequisites

You need a family tree already created before you can add people to it.

Add someone quickly

How to get there: Family Tree > open your tree > Add Person

1. Tap Add Person from your family tree.
2. Choose how this person relates to you: parent, child, spouse, sibling, or leave it unset for a standalone entry.
3. Enter their First name.
4. Enter their Family name if you know it.
5. Enter a Birth year such as 1974.
6. Tap Save.

You feel a short buzz and see a confirmation message, then you return to your tree with the new person included.

Tip

When you are working through a wedding guest list, do a fast pass first: names and birth years only. Filling in every detail on the first pass is what makes people abandon a tree half-built. You can reopen anyone later and enrich them.

Next Best Action

After adding your first few people, most organizers:

• Building a wedding side: Link relationships on the tree
• Planning invites: Create your guest list

Add fuller details

How to get there: Family Tree > open your tree > Add Person > Add more details

1. Tap Add more details to expand the extra fields.
2. Enter the name in Devanagari if you want it stored alongside the English spelling, for example सुनीता.
3. Enter a Preferred name if the person goes by something other than their given name, such as a nickname elders use.
4. Enter a Birthplace like Jaipur.
5. Select Sex, Living status, and a Privacy level.
6. Add any Notes worth keeping, such as which side of the family they sit on.
7. Tap Save.

Tap Show less at any time to collapse the extra fields. Anything you already typed stays put.

Note

Some trees also show extra cultural details such as gotra or community. These appear only when cultural details are switched on for that tree.

Tip

Use Privacy deliberately for living relatives. Setting a tighter level on people who prefer to stay off shared views saves awkward conversations later, especially when a tree is shared with extended family.

Leave without saving

Tap Cancel in the top corner, or use the back arrow. Nothing you typed is kept.

Caution

Cancel discards the whole entry, including anything you filled in under Add more details. Save first if you want to keep even a partial record.

Fields

Field	Description	Required
Relationship	How this person connects to you	No
First name	Given name in English letters	Yes
Family name	Surname in English letters	No
Birth year	Four-digit year, for example 1958	No
Devanagari first name	Given name in Devanagari script	No
Devanagari family name	Surname in Devanagari script	No
Preferred name	Nickname or the name they actually go by	No
Birthplace	City, town, or village	No
Sex	Biological sex, or leave as unknown	No
Living status	Living, deceased, or unknown	No
Privacy	Who can see this person’s details	No
Notes	Free text for anything else	No

What to Do Next

Your Situation	Recommended Next Step
Added several people	View and arrange your tree
Connecting branches	Link relationships on the tree
Fixing a typo or year	Edit a person’s details
Turning the tree into invitees	Create your guest list
Sharing with relatives	Share your family tree
Names in two scripts	Names and script settings

Related Articles

• Create your family tree: Start here if you do not have a tree yet.
• Viewing and arranging your tree: Move around the canvas once people are added.
• Editing a person’s details: Update names, years, and privacy after saving.
• Linking relationships: Connect parents, children, and spouses.
• Names and script settings: How English and Devanagari names sit together.
• Privacy on shared trees: What each privacy level hides and from whom.
• Guest list basics: Turn family records into an invite list.

Troubleshooting

“Couldn’t save this person” - The save did not reach the server. Check your connection and tap Save again. If it keeps failing, close the form and reopen it so nothing half-typed is retried.

“Something went wrong” - The screen could not load properly. Go back to your tree and open Add Person again.

The Save button spins and nothing happens - The save is still in flight. Wait for it to finish rather than tapping again, so you do not create the same person twice.

Extra fields are missing - Tap Add more details to expand them. Cultural details show up only on trees where that option is enabled.

Devanagari text will not type - Your keyboard needs a Hindi or Marathi layout installed. Add one in your phone’s keyboard settings, then return to the form.

The person saved but looks unconnected - Open the tree and set the relationship from the tree view, then confirm the branch reads the way you expect.