Family lines

Why a register, and not a family tree

State documents alone cannot recover a thar, because “Limbu” and “Subba” were written over them. Genealogy therefore runs through family memory and land records first, and state records second — and individual families hit the same walls, one after another, on their own Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

What a clan site can do that an individual cannot is publish a shared, structured, consented register with a standard record format: name, thar, sub-thar, father, birth year, birthplace, thum, source of the information, contributor, date. That format is what turns dozens of private dead ends into one searchable dataset, and it is the single highest-leverage thing this site can build.

Two categories of source do most of the work. The bansabali — the written family genealogy — is a real Limbu tradition, and some older families have kept copies Limbu people C. And because kipat vested in “the progeny of the first user and maker” of the land, surviving kipat and early raikar registers are direct evidence of lineage, held locally at district land revenue offices rather than centrally Ghimire, Ram Kumar B.

Public tier and members’ tier

Genealogy is personal data. Living people’s birth dates, locations and family relationships are not published without their consent, and deceased people’s are published with care for their living relatives Ninglekhu/ku heritage documentation project 2026 C.

So the register is served at two levels. The public tier shows the aggregate picture — how many lines have been recorded, which thums and villages they name, which decades they reach back to. The members’ tier shows the detailed records, and requires an account. Ritual knowledge, and anything a contributing family has asked to be kept inside the family, sits in a restricted tier that neither of those reaches.

How to add or claim a record

1. Gather what is at home first: the bansabali if there is one, citizenship certificates (which name a father and a district), old land papers, army discharge books, school certificates, letters, and photographs with anything written on the back.
2. Send them through the archive’s contribution flow, or bring them to a recording session. Photographs of documents are enough; nothing has to leave the house.
3. Say what you want published: the full record, the aggregate only, or family-only. That choice is stored with the record and can be changed later.
4. To claim a record already in the register — to correct it, to add a generation, or to ask for a removal — open an account and use the record’s own correction link, or write to us.

Early Nepali census material can help where family memory runs out: the 1952–54 census recorded relationship to household head, caste, religion, sex, age, marital status, education, mother tongue and occupation, and is held by the Central Bureau of Statistics under a confidentiality acknowledgement Central Bureau of Statistics, Nepal 1954 A.