Real families. Real discoveries.

Priya grew up hearing stories about her great-grandfather arriving in Trinidad as an indentured labourer, but the family had lost all details except the name of the ship he sailed on.

Using TamizhConnect’s indenture record search, she found his immigration number and the ship manifest entry that listed his departure port and native village near Thanjavur.

From the village name, she searched Tamil Nadu voter rolls on TamizhConnect and found families with the same surname still living there. After exchanging messages, she confirmed the connection — they were descendants of her great-grandfather’s brother.

Priya has since visited the village, met her relatives, and built a family tree spanning five generations and two continents.

Ravi had inherited a single document — a photocopy of his grandfather’s immigration pass from Mauritius’ Aapravasi Ghat archives. The Tamil script was faded and difficult to read.

He uploaded the document to TamizhConnect’s digitisation service. The team transcribed the Tamil text, identified the emigration agent, departure port, and village of origin in Nagapattinam district.

Cross-referencing with voter records and other immigration files, Ravi discovered his grandfather had a brother who remained in India. That branch of the family was still in the same village.

Today, Ravi’s tree on TamizhConnect has 28 people spanning three generations across two countries, all traced from a single faded document.

Meera knew she had relatives in Penang, Singapore, and Tamil Nadu, but no one in the family had ever written down how everyone was connected.

She created a TamizhConnect account and added herself, her parents, and her grandparents. Then she shared invite QR codes via the family WhatsApp group.

Within a weekend, her cousin in Singapore and her uncle in India had both joined and added their own branches. The tree grew from 3 people to 15 in two days.

For the first time, the family could see the full picture — four generations across three countries, all in one place with Tamil names spelled correctly.