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 can:  Create timelines of milestone family moments  Enrich your family story with photos, documents and records  Get instant hints revealing clues to your past  Grow your family tree wherever you are with the Findmypast mobile app  If you have any questions, we’re happy to help. Drop our customer support team a line here.  ..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 really looking forward to working together even more closely to help families record and share their family history. You can read more about Findmypast’s acquisition of Twile on the Findmypast blog. For now, it’s business as usual, but this acquisition opens up some very exciting opportunities.  We’ll keep you updated ..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, you’ve been able to add documents as JPEG photo files to timeline events, but no other formats were supported.  As of today, you can also upload PDF files. You could add wedding, birth or death certificates to family milestones, newspaper clippings, wedding invitations, cruise tickets or anything else that will help to tell the story of your family history. To upload a document: Open an event on your timeline by c ..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 photos, Twile will automatically select up to three of those photos to show on the timeline. If there are more than three photos in the event, the timeline images will be selected at random – and you’ll see a count of how many other photos are available inside. If you have some preferred photos that you’d like to see on the timeline, simply open the event and click the heart “love” icon on each photo you like. Twile will give p ..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 clearer, brighter and easier to use.  Your milestones have more colour, your photos are larger and you can see more about each event without having to click and open it. The new design makes photos stand out more and shows how many photos are waiting for you inside the event.  We’ve removed some of the clutter on the timeline events to return the focus to the most important information. And you’ll also see that ..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 occasionally passes through neighbouring countries too. It started in 1903 with a 2,428km round-trip route from Paris and has been held every year since, with the exception of the years during World War One and World War Two. This year’s Tour de France started from Düsseldorf in Germany on 1 July, following a 3,540km route to the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 23 July. Our Tour de France timeline shows the evolution of the rac ..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 the opening of the new “GlaswegAsians” exhibition at the Scotland Street School Museum in Glasgow, which explores how South Asian people came to Glasgow and how the city has grown and changed as a result. This is the first timeline we’ve launched as part of our relationship with The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), who represent members that include museums, heritage sites, zoos and pala ..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 Wimbledon since 1877, the English Royal family have attended the event since 1907, with King George VI actually once playing at the venue as a competitor in the men’s doubles in 1926! Our new timeline of the Wimbledon Championships takes a look right back to 1877 when Spencer Gore defeated William Marshall in the only event of the championship, the Gentlemen’s Singles competition. 1st Winner of Wimbledon, Spencer ..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 share your research and engage younger generations – is now available in red, white and blue, with the American stars and stripes. The personalised family infographic is free and – whether you are currently using Twile or not – you can create one at twile.com/numbers/american. If you’re new to Twile, all you need to do is import your FamilySearch tree or upload a GEDCOM file to automatically generate your inf ..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 you lots of new features over the past six months and – just in case you missed them – here is a quick round-up: Twile is now completely free! At the start of the year, we removed the subscription fee for using Twile and our family timeline is now free for everyone! Explore timelines of world historyIn January we opened up our timelines of world history to everyone, whether they use Twile or not. Since then, we’ve added ..read more