The following is from the September 11, 2012 edition of http://www.bbc.co.uk:
A new social ancestry website created by two Londoners is helping South Asians reconnect with their past.
“My grandmother got Alzheimer’s and so all the great stories that she used to tell me… they just disappeared.
“And then when I tried to trace back my history I realised that because my family is South Asian we don’t have records of births, deaths and marriages,” said Daadi’s co-creator, Saima Mir.
This was the inspiration for a new website created by two Londoners to attempt the difficult job of tracing the ancestry of South Asians and those of South Asian heritage.
Who’s the Daadi (a play on the word Dadi, used by South Asians to describe their paternal grandmother) is described as a “social ancestry site” and will use pictures, names, significant dates and places to create family trees using a database of information.
“I was looking through old photographs of my dad, in his really dapper suits in different parts of Karachi, and realised that so many of my friends have images like this. I came up with the idea of a Wiki database to bring them all together,” said Mir, from Tooting in South London.
Mir co-created Daadi with Alex Street, who was behind the technology used in building the website. The pair met using social media and the site has been inspired by relationships created, and re-established, on sites like Facebook and Twitter.