Our mission
Family history often lives across photo albums, handwritten notes and the memories of relatives. HamroBansa brings those pieces together so they can be understood and continued by future generations.
The private family workspace is the heart of the service. Public heritage pages are a separate reference layer for information that is suitable to share more widely.
The principles behind the product
- Private by default for family workspaces and living people.
- Simple enough to begin with one person and grow over time.
- Designed for Nepali names, Bikram Sambat and Gregorian dates, and meaningful places.
- Publication is deliberate, reviewable and separate from private family work.
Using public heritage records
A directory entry can help identify a spelling, name or location, but it cannot establish an individual family's history on its own. Use the cited sources and family records to check each connection.
A surname-to-gotra link, caste label or place association records what a source or contributor connected. It does not establish that every family with the name follows that tradition. A source about a whole community does not prove a claim about one person or family branch.
- Read the source list and consider whether each citation supports the specific claim, its date and its geographic scope.
- Compare original names, dates, places and relationships before connecting two family records.
- Treat community and gotra labels as traditions or research leads, never as a way to assign an individual's identity.
- Send corrections with a page link, proposed wording and supporting evidence; staff review submissions before publication.
- Keep information about living people and private family documents in a family workspace unless everyone affected has agreed to publish them.
A practical method for family research
Begin with a relative who can explain how names were written and how relationships are remembered. Record who supplied each detail and when. Then compare birth, marriage, citizenship, land, school and migration records, allowing for Nepali and English spellings and BS and AD dates.
When a document names a village, district or former VDC, follow its administrative context before assuming it names a modern municipality. Write down any unresolved conflict instead of silently choosing one version. A family tree remains stronger when later generations can recheck the evidence behind each connection.