Your family’s data, on a box you control.

Kinshire keeps one record of the people in your life. On top of it sit your contacts, your photos, the family calendar, and whatever you’ve worked out about where everyone came from.

What it is

The whole platform runs from one Docker Compose file on a home server. Self-hosting is the default, not a paid tier.

One graph, four surfaces

Kinshire keeps details about people together with who added them and who may see them. A family tree is one view over that shared record, not a separate database.

Family-held

Family CRM

The plumber’s number, a cousin’s new address. Never shown to a crowd.

Family-held

The family album

Your photos, tagged with who is in them. A face tag is as private as a phone number, and the person pictured controls who can see their name.

Household

The household organizer

Chores, meals, shopping lists, the calendar. Plus a living-room display that shows the day without being asked.

Public

Genealogy

Research on the dead, backed by evidence and open to review by other researchers. Seeded from public-domain records, never scraped.

What happens to your data

Private family data stays on your family’s own server. When you publish something, Kinshire makes that change explicit and applies the same choice everywhere.

How Kinshire treats family-held and published information.

	Kept with your family	Shared publicly
Who can read it	You, and the people you name	Whoever you published it to
Where it is stored	Your family’s own server. Not copied to Kinshire.	May join Kinshire’s shared research collection
Face matching	On your device. We never receive it.	Only for people who opted in
If you erase it	Removed completely. It never left your box.	We erase ours and request erasure elsewhere; external copies may remain.

And whoever you write about is protected whatever you choose: a living person who never signed up shows as a name and nothing else outside your own circle.

What Kinshire refuses to become

Not a social network. No feeds, no follower counts, no public graph of living people.
Not a surveillance tool. No face index of people who never opted in. Face data never leaves your device.
Not cloud-first. If we host it for you, you get the same build you could have run yourself.
Not an Ancestry clone. No scraping, and no re-hosting records we don’t have the rights to.