Salasilah · Step-by-step

From a link to your own family tree

Someone sent you salasilah.ilpam.my/invite. This is every screen from that link to your finished tree — about two minutes, and you can skip any question you're not sure about.

✎ Draft. Screenshots are auto-generated from the live app (re-runnable). English only for now. Google's own account-chooser screen is the one picture that isn't here — it's Google's page, not ours.
You — the newcomer

You get your OWN tree

The link creates a brand-new family tree that belongs to you. Five questions seed it with you, your parents and your spouse; everything after that is yours to build.

The person who sent it

Nothing is shared either way

This link does not give you access to their tree, and it doesn't give them access to yours. It's an invitation to join Salasilah, not a shared document.

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Open the link and sign in

One tick, one Google account
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Open the link you were sent

The link is always the same address — salasilah.ilpam.my/invite. There's no code to type and no per-person link to keep track of, so it works whether it arrived by WhatsApp, email or was read out to you.

Got a link with a family name in it instead? Something like salasilah.ilpam.my/mohdsalleh is a join gate. The five questions below are exactly the same, but your answers are also checked against that family's tree to see whether you're a relative. Either way you end up with your own tree.
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Agree to the terms, then sign in

A welcome screen explains what you're about to build. Before you can sign in you must tick I have read and agree to the Terms & Conditions and the Privacy Policy — the Continue with Google button stays greyed out until you do. Both documents open in a new tab, and both are also available in Bahasa Melayu, linked underneath.

Ticking is a real consent, not a formality: Salasilah stores names and dates of living people, which Malaysia's PDPA treats as personal data.

Then pick your Google account on Google's own sign-in screen, and it sends you straight back. There's no separate Salasilah password to create.

Which account should I pick? Whichever one you'll still have in ten years — it's how you'll sign back in, and your tree belongs to it.
Nothing to wait for. Salasilah is open to anyone with a Google account — there's no approval step and no waiting list, so signing in lands you straight inside the app. This link just drops you into the setup wizard on the way in.
The invite welcome screen, with the consent tick highlighted and the Google button greyed out
Sign-in stays disabled until the consent box is ticked.
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Answer five quick questions

Three of them are skippable · nothing is final
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Step 1 of 5 — who you are

Your name is filled in from your Google profile; correct it if it's not how you'd write it in a family tree. Pick Male or Female — this decides where you sit among your relatives, and it's what makes the last question ask about a wife or a husband.

This person becomes the centre of your tree. Everyone you add later hangs off them.

Step 1 of the wizard: your name and gender
Step 1 of 5 — your name, prefilled from Google, and your gender.
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Stuck on any step? Press Guide

Every step of the wizard has a green Guide button beside the step counter. It opens this whole guide in a panel on the right, scrolled to the step you're looking at and marked with a green bar — so you can read ahead, look back, and keep typing without losing your place.

The panel is text only, because a screenshot of the screen you're already looking at is the least useful half. See it with pictures ↗ at the bottom opens this illustrated page in a new tab; Close puts you back exactly where you were. You can also search all of Salasilah's help from there, or report a problem.

The Guide button open, showing this step's help in a side panel
The Guide button opens the matching step in a side panel.
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Step 2 of 5 — name your tree

Salasilah proposes a name from your first name — Aminah's Family. Keep it or type your own; a clan name like Keluarga Hj Hassan works just as well.

You can rename the tree at any time from the dashboard, so don't overthink it.
Step 2 of the wizard: naming the tree
Step 2 of 5 — the tree name, proposed from your first name.
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Step 3 of 5 — your father

Add his name and mark whether he's Living or Deceased. From here on a Skip button appears next to Next — use it freely. A skipped person simply isn't created, and you can add them properly later with far more detail than this screen collects.

Step 3 of the wizard: your father, with the Skip button highlighted
Step 3 of 5 — from here on, Skip is always an option.
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Step 4 of 5 — your mother

The same two fields for your mother. If you add both parents, Salasilah links them to each other as a couple as well as to you — you don't have to connect anything by hand.

Step 4 of the wizard: your mother
Step 4 of 5 — your mother.
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Step 5 of 5 — your spouse, then create

The last question asks about your wife or husband, following the gender you picked in step 1. Skip it if it doesn't apply.

On this final step the blue button changes from Next to Create my tree. That's the one that builds everything.

Changed your mind halfway? Back returns to any earlier answer. Nothing is written until you press Create my tree.
Step 5 of the wizard, with the Create my tree button highlighted
Step 5 of 5 — the primary button becomes Create my tree.
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Your tree is ready

Back to the dashboard, then open it
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You land on your dashboard

Salasilah doesn't drop you straight into the tree — it takes you to My Family Trees, your dashboard, with a green banner confirming the tree was created and the new card highlighted below it.

Why here? Because this page is the one you'll come back to every time you sign in, and it's the only place you can create or import more trees. Seeing it once, on day one, saves hunting for it later.

The banner shows once. Refreshing the page clears it — the tree card stays.
The dashboard with the new-tree celebration banner
The dashboard, with the one-time confirmation banner and your new tree card.
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Click Open Tree

The card shows the tree's name and how many people are in it — four, if you answered every question. Click Open Tree (the card's title and icon go to the same place).

The Open Tree button on the new tree card
One click into the tree itself.
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There it is

Your tree, drawn from the five answers: you in the centre with a star, your parents joined above you, your spouse beside you. Everything you need next is on this screen — Add Person in the toolbar, or the + on any card to add a relative directly to that person.

On your very first visit a Help panel opens over the tree, explaining how to pan, zoom and add people. Close it whenever you like — Help in the toolbar brings it back, and it's hidden in the picture above so you can see the tree.

Where do I go from here? The Users Guide covers adding people, photos and dates; the sharing how-to covers sending your tree to a relative once there's something worth sending.
The finished tree with four people
Four people, linked correctly, from five questions.