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Glossary

Every word the app uses, in plain language.

Add / Link: Add creates a new person. Link joins two people who are already in the tree.
Adopted, foster, step, birth: The four ways a child can belong to a parent. Each has its own line style in the tree.
Forest agreement: A switch in the gear of each tree you own that lets everyone in the same forest see the tree through trees that agreed too, as far as each link shares it (lesson 10).
Portrait choice: When a person has a photo in several connected trees, you choose which one you see in your own connected view (lesson 10).
Avatar: A ready-made portrait used when a person has no photo.
Caption: A short text under a picture, recording or video in a gallery.
Connection: A link between the same person in two different trees. It joins what you see, without changing either tree.
Discoverable ("Being found"): A switch in the gear of each of your trees ("Let relatives find this tree by name"). When on, other people can search for it and ask to connect. Off by default.
Done: The button that finishes editing, or leaves a view. After Done, Undo is no longer available.
Edit mode: The state you enter with Edit Node, in which you can change the tree. Only owners and managers can enter it.
Forest: A group of trees joined together by connections, shown together on one screen.
Gallery: The pictures, audio recordings and videos of one person.
Group: A private circle of relatives, joined only with an administrator's approval. A tree can be found only through a group it belongs to (lesson 16).
Invitation: A share for one named person. Only someone signed in with the invited email address can use it, so forwarding it does not let anyone else in.
Manager: Someone the owner gave permission to help edit a tree. A manager cannot delete the tree.
Memories: All the galleries of a tree (or a forest) on one page, grouped by year.
Listed / Open: The two levels at which a tree can belong to a group: Listed lets members find it by name; Open lets them view it read-only, showing only what you tick (lesson 16).
Node: Another word for a person, one circle in a tree.
On-boarding tips: The yellow help bubbles that point at buttons the first time you visit a page.
Owner: The person who created a tree. Only the owner can delete it.
Passkey: The technical name for signing in with your fingerprint, face or screen lock.
Perspective: Seeing the tree redrawn from one person's point of view.
Pinned: A tree you starred so it stays at the top of your list.
QR code: A square pattern a phone camera can read. Asal Ku uses it to open a shared tree.
Tag (in a photo): A numbered marker (sometimes a box) you place on a person in a picture, with their name. Asal Ku never recognises anyone: you choose who is who (lesson 14).
Find people: A button that, on your phone, draws a box around each person in a picture so you can tap a box to tag them. It finds people, not faces, and keeps nothing (lesson 14).
Privacy Policy: The page that says what Asal Ku keeps about you and your family, who can see it, and how to ask for it to be changed or removed (lesson 15).
Terms of Use: The rules for using Asal Ku, for you and for us (lesson 15).
Agreement: The short rules you agree to before adding information about people, kept under Profile and settings → Privacy and agreements (lesson 12).
This is me: A private setting that tells Asal Ku which person in a tree is you, so answers can say "your aunt" (lesson 14).
Relation: The button, and the answer window, that tells you how two people in a tree are related, in the words of the language you chose (lesson 13).
Share link: A web address that gives access to a tree to anyone who has it, for viewing or for helping manage. The owner can turn it off.
Spouse: A partner in a couple, with a status of married, divorced or not specified.
Storage: The space for pictures, audio and video. Each account has 100 MB.
Tree: One family tree, with its own people, name and description.
Undo / Redo: Take back, or put back, your last change. Available until you press Done.
Viewer (view only): Someone who can look at a tree but not change it.