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Your surname carries 600 years of family. Meet the cousins you've never met.

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Possible match

87% confidence
VK

Venkata Krishna Rao

b. 1894 · Tenali · Vasishta gotra

Likely 5th cousin via shared ancestor born ~1820 in Krishna district.

Possible match

71% confidence
RR

Ramachandra Rao

b. 1908 · Guntur · same gotra

Possible match

63%
SR

Suryanarayana Rao

b. 1912 · Tenali region

Lineage searches from

Krishna district Tirupati Tanjore Madurai Kakinada Kolar Mysuru Ujjain Varanasi Bhubaneswar Coimbatore Krishna district Tirupati Tanjore Madurai Kakinada Kolar Mysuru Ujjain Varanasi Bhubaneswar Coimbatore

Four generations · One thread

Every elder who dies takes 4 generations of names with them. We're racing the clock too.

Four generations.
One thread.

  1. 1922

    Great-grandfather Venkata

    Born in Tenali · Vasishta gotra. Married Janaki in 1942 in a village now under a reservoir.

  2. 1948

    Grandfather Krishna

    Moved from Guntur to Hyderabad after Independence. Eight siblings. Three already on the platform.

  3. 1976

    Father Ramesh

    Engineer · Bangalore · married outside the family tradition. New branches sprouted.

  4. 2004

    You

    Toronto. Two surnames, three time zones, one tree.

  5. 2026

    Your daughter

    Will know the names her great-great-grandparents carried. That is the only promise that matters.

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Lineage search questions we hear most

How do I find relatives by surname in India?
Search opt-in public family profiles by surname, ancestral village or gotra. Match-confidence scoring surfaces probable relatives, and you connect only when both sides say yes — match, don't merge.
What is a gotra, and can I search by it?
A gotra is a patrilineal clan lineage in Hindu tradition, traced to an ancestral rishi. Yes — gotra is a first-class search field alongside surname and place, which matters because surnames changed across migrations while gotra rarely did.
Is my family's data publicly searchable?
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When a probable match is found, both families must approve before any contact details or tree data are shared. Nothing merges automatically — you choose what, if anything, to connect.
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