Privacy is a major concern for most people who use Tpstry, so we made it one of our major concerns too.

When you create a family and start answering questions, those answers are private. Only other users who you invite to join your family can see those answers. When you invite a new person to your family, you are giving that person the ability to read the existing family history, answer questions and ask new custom questions.

Search engines like Google cannot access your information so the general internet population will not be able to see your answers.

We will have additional security and privacy features available to our premium accounts when we launch those in a few months.

Watch a short video on how you can use Tpstry to gather your family history.

We’ve heard often from users that they wished it was quicker and easier to invite relatives to join your Tpstry family. We looked at a few different solutions and came up with one that we think will work nicely.

When you answer a question where the answer is a person (like who is your father or mother), you are now given the option to enter that person’s email address. By doing this, an invitation will automatically be sent to their email address with all the information they need to join your family.

As we, the Tpstry founders, got older, we began to realize that we wanted to know more about many of our relatives who had already passed away. We wanted to know what they were like as kids, who were there favorite entertainers, what jobs had they worked at. Unfortunately we couldn’t talk directly to them, but we could talk to our other living relatives who knew them. By using the combined knowledge of our living relatives, we could learn so much more about our deceased relatives. Since we had already missed our chance with our deceased relatives, we didn’t want to miss our chance with our living relatives. So we could ask them the same questions and learn even more about everone in our family.

Thus, Tpstry was born as a place to gather and organize not only our past family history, but also the new living history made everyday.

Just as history is living and changes everyday, so Tpstry will change to meet the needs of it’s users. Please feel free to join our Support Forums to tell us what you like and don’t like about Tpstry.