https://shijro.com/posts News and stories from Shijro, the private family tree app. en https://shijro.com/posts/spain-and-portugal https://shijro.com/posts/spain-and-portugal Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shijro has Spanish for Latin America and for Spain, and Portuguese for Brazil and for Portugal. What changes between them, and how the app picks one. https://shijro.com/posts/translating-shijro https://shijro.com/posts/translating-shijro Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT I translated Shijro with AI models and read the Urdu and Sindhi myself. The model mattered less than I expected. Most of what went wrong was in my own code. https://shijro.com/posts/what-relatives-are-called https://shijro.com/posts/what-relatives-are-called Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT English has one word for four different uncles. Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese and Thai do not. How Shijro names your relatives in each language it speaks. https://shijro.com/posts/whats-new-3-0 https://shijro.com/posts/whats-new-3-0 Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shijro 3.0 is in 19 languages, opens straight on your family tree, colours and labels your close relatives, and lets you add a parent, partner, child or sibling from anyone on the tree. https://shijro.com/posts/whats-new-2-2 https://shijro.com/posts/whats-new-2-2 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shijro 2.2 redraws the family tree so couples, brothers and sisters are easy to tell apart, names relatives the way people say them, and tells you how anyone in the family is related to you. https://shijro.com/posts/why-i-built-shijro https://shijro.com/posts/why-i-built-shijro Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A family history written by hand over years, passed from house to house until the original was lost, and children who can no longer read their grandparents' language. Why Shijro exists.