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We’re absolutely delighted to say that we’ve made it to the final 12 in the Innovator Showdown at RootsTech 2016! RootsTech is the largest family history event in the world, held… Read More

Your privacy and security is top of our priority list. Everyone involved in Twile is a parent with a young family and we completely understand how important it is to keep personal infor… Read More

We know that family history is more than just names on a family tree. With Twile, you can create a rich, visual timeline of your family history, made up of milestones and photos, which every… Read More

Twile is all about preserving family memories and family history for the future generations. We are building Twile because we have young children and we wanted them to have a record of their… Read More

Our first RootsTech has come to a close and we are delighted to have won two awards in the Innovator Showdown, including People’s Choice! Chosen from 46 overall applicants, Twile was o… Read More

We are delighted to reveal that Twile has secured an investment  and partnership deal with leading family history site Findmypast, which is set to open up huge opportunit… Read More

We’re really excited to tell you about three features we’ve added to Twile this week, including a new Twile Family subscription. One of the things we’re most proud of at Tw… Read More

You asked, we delivered: How your feedback improves Twile In April 2016 we made some big changes to the invisible parts of Twile, which means that the whole website now runs faster and… Read More

Twile is designed for sharing. The timeline is a great way of letting your family (especially the younger ones) explore their family history and recent events online. You can invite you… Read More

This week we have been supporting The Department for Culture, Media & Sport’s campaign #CreateUK, a week long celebration and showcase of the creative industries in the U… Read More

We are honoured to have been selected to present Twile to HRH The Duke of York in Sheffield, UK today in Pitch@Palace On Tour. Sheffield is where our journey began. We are the sole comp… Read More

This weekend we spent the day at the Doncaster & District Family History Society Fair.  Twile is based in Doncaster, so it was great to support our local society. The event was very… Read More

OK, so this is exciting! Today we have launched our FamilySearch integration, which lets you import your FamilySearch tree into Twile to automatically create a rich, visual timelin… Read More

Who says you don’t get anything for free?  From today, Twile’s free subscription allows you to add up to 10 milestones and 10 photos to your timeline every month. Until… Read More

Twile are visiting the US in October, as part of a cohort of companies chosen to help raise the profile of the tech industry in the North of England.  Arranged by Tech North and th… Read More

Twile has been selected to proceed to the next stage of the Pitch@Palace competition, which means we’ll be attending a boot camp in Oxford later this week. A couple of weeks… Read More

Kelly Marsden, Co-Founder of TwileTwile is heading to St. James’s Palace, London in November for Pitch@Palace and we need your vote in the People’s Choice competition… Read More

You may be aware that we are in the running for the ‘People’s Choice’ Award at the Pitch@Palace event on Wednesday 2nd November. There is still time to vote! If you ha… Read More

We are pleased to be going along to the Huddersfield & District Family History Society’s Family & Local History Fair on Saturday 12th November. The society will have their own… Read More

For our friends celebrating Thanksgiving this week, we’ve just added a new Thanksgiving milestone to help you Twile your holiday memories. Families all around the US will be coming tog… Read More

If you have your family tree and memories in FamilySearch, you can import them into Twile to automatically build a rich, visual timeline of your family history.  Why enter all of that i… Read More

We have just added a new Christmas milestone to help you Twile your memories over the festive season. We encourage you to add this year’s Christmas to your timeline, but also try to ad… Read More

To help in our mission of engaging the wider family in family history, we’ve just opened up our streams of world events to everyone, whether they use Twile or not.  This mean… Read More

If you are a FamilySearch user, we would really appreciate a review in the FamilySearch App Gallery.  This will help to let other FamilySearch users learn about Twile. To … Read More

Twile now includes a timeline of the American Civil War, which you can overlay onto your own family timeline to see how your ancestors might have been affected. In 1849, my 3 x Great Grandpa… Read More

Here’s an update on the project we’re running at a local school, to help introduce children to their family history. In this week’s lesson we held a ‘name… Read More

We are delighted to share our new feature with you – a personalised digital family history infographic which you can create easily for free, to share with your family and friends. Last… Read More

We are really happy to announce that – as of today – we have removed the subscription fee for using Twile and our family timeline is now free for everyone! When we started Twile… Read More

The largest global genealogy conference in the world – RootsTech – is finally here and we are delighted to be in Salt Lake City to be a part of it again. The Innovator Summit kic… Read More

The Twile team were at RootsTech 2017 last week, at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, one year after we won 2 awards there in the Innovator Showdown. Last year there was a huge buzz around… Read More

Every year, Creative England reveals their CE50 – a list of the fifty best up-and-coming, innovative companies in the creative industries in England.  Twile are delighted to be on… Read More

This week, Twile’s Paul Brooks and Kelly Marsden attended a council meeting of members of ALVA – the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions – at Wembley Stadium in… Read More

We are delighted to be supporting Legacy Tale’s Family Storytelling retreat, which takes place in St. George, UT in April 2017. Legacy Tale work with families to reflect and captu… Read More

While we are constantly trying to add new features to your Twile timeline and family tree, I thought it might be useful to give some insight into how much time is spent simply ensuring… Read More

To celebrate St Patrick’s Day, we are pleased to announce two new features. Our infographic, designed to help you share your research in a fun and exciting way with your family, can no… Read More

This weekend, we celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK. We have met and come to know many inspirational genealogy mothers over the past few years who have a real passion for… Read More

We’re going to be at Who Do You Think You Are? Live at the NEC in Birmingham, UK again this week – to celebrate we’re offering you the chance to win a £100… Read More

Following feedback and requests we’ve had from customers, we’re really happy to be able to offer you a professionally printed version of our Family History infogra… Read More

It’s the Who Do You Think You Are? Live exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC this week and we’re looking forward to what promises to be the biggest and best one yet! At the… Read More

Do you have photos in Facebook that you’d like to add to your Twile timeline?  We’ve made some improvements to the Facebook import in Twile, which will help you to update yo… Read More

It’s Easter weekend and we’ve just added a new Easter milestone to the Twile timeline.  Add your photos and memories from this Easter or from previous years. We often get as… Read More

Proudly based in the North of England, we couldn’t miss the opportunity to celebrate St George’s day this weekend with a red and white version of our family history infographic… Read More

This week we’ve launched our Timeline of Pitch@Palace, the programme founded by The Duke of York to help tech startups get their business ideas in front of a global audience of influen… Read More

We’ve just added a new feature to Twile that lets you control how other family members can contribute to your tree and timeline.  Until now, people you invited could edit your fam… Read More

As Emmanuel Macron prepares to assume the French Presidency on the 14th May, we have launched our new timeline of French Presidents. If your family has French heritage, find out more about w… Read More

As the United Kingdom gears up for the general election on 8th June 2017, we have launched our timeline of British Prime Ministers. From Sir Robert Walpole, who holds the record as the longe… Read More

You probably have at least one person on your Twile family tree who was (or is) known by a name different to their given name.  For example, my grandmother was given the name Dorot… Read More

Sometimes you just want to add some words to your Twile timeline, to help tell the story or to describe an event that you don’t have any photos for.  Our latest addition to Twile… Read More

We have undertaken various school projects, to see how we can make family history more interesting for younger generations. Our projects have been embraced by children, who have enjoyed lear… Read More

Could you help us add more history into Twile? Over the last year we’ve added a number of world history “streams” to Twile, allowing you to see your ancestors’ l… Read More

We’re halfway through 2017 and we think it’s a good time to look back at everything we’ve added into Twile this year. Our development team have been working hard to bring y… Read More

If you are celebrating Independence Day in the US today, we have a version of our infographic especially for you! Our family history infographic – designed to help you s… Read More

To celebrate the start of Wimbledon this week, we’ve created a timeline of the history of the Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world. Held at the All England Club in… Read More

Today we’re launching a timeline of the history of South Asian Communities across Scotland, in collaboration with Glasgow Museums and Colourful Heritage. The timeline coincides with th… Read More

Halfway through this year’s race, we’re celebrating the Tour de France with a timeline of its 114-year history. The Tour de France is an annual bicycle race in France, which occa… Read More

Today we’ve launched a new version of the Twile timeline, designed to make your family history look even better! We’ve introduced a number of changes to make everything clea… Read More

We’ve recently made some changes to the way you control which photos appear on your Twile timeline.  Here’s how it works… When you have an event that contains ph… Read More

One of the most-requested features for Twile is the ability to attach PDF versions of documents to milestones – the wait is over as we’ve added that feature today. For a while, y… Read More

We’re really proud and excited to announce that Twile has today joined the Findmypast family. We’ve worked closely with Findmypast since they invested in Twile in 2016 and are re… Read More

Twile is closing on 31 January 2022. You can still login and access your account until then.  Continue growing your family tree for free at Findmypast where you… Read More