Relatives you have not met
Search member profiles by names, regions, branch clues, and oldest known Thomases.
Thomas Community
Come for the records. Stay for the relatives.
The social side is the heartbeat: post the clue your family keeps repeating, honor the Thomas everyone still talks about, invite relatives, plan reunions, and discover people whose stories overlap with yours.
Family media with meaning
Profile pictures, reunion photos, videos, scanned documents, and stories that help another Thomas say, I know that face.
Thomases doing great things
Community news, service wins, art, science, business, sports, record lessons, branch puzzles, and calls for help.
Mutual support
Approved business listings, jobs, skills, local archive helpers, and relatives willing to check cemeteries.
Place-based branches
Timeline maps can show Thomas movement by county, state, country, and reunion region without exposing homes.
Funding loop
Drop-shipped heritage items can fund hosting, storage, backups, design, research, and reunion materials.
How a connection starts
One post can wake up another branch
The feed is designed around useful family prompts, not random noise. Members can share enough to be recognized while keeping private details inside the verified layer.
Post
Share a clue, reunion memory, family saying, old-place question, or local help request in the verified feed.
Recognize
Another Thomas sees a county, ancestor, face, or story that matches something in their family.
Connect
Start with shareable profile clues, then request a friend, relative, branch helper, or reunion connection.
Preserve
Move useful clues into archives, news, events, family tree branches, or Honorable Thomas nominations after review.
Find a specific Thomas member
Member search can surface shareable profile clues by display name, username, broad region, shared branch clues, and oldest known Thomas ancestor. Sensitive details stay private unless both people opt in.
Search member profilesSend friend or relative requests
- Search for a member by display name, username, region, oldest known Thomas, or shared branch clue.
- Send a friend or relative request with a short note explaining how you may connect.
- Show private profile details only after both sides accept.
- Let members block, decline, or keep a profile public-only without pressure.
Family feed
The weekly reason to come back
The verified feed is for discoveries, faces, reunion memories, congratulations, and questions another Thomas might recognize. Public stories still get review, and private family details stay protected.
Events and reunions
Gatherings belong inside Community
Events belong with family coordination, not a separate calendar nobody checks. Reunions, branch calls, archive days, memorials, and research nights need public invitations with private RSVP details.
Submit the idea
A reunion idea, photo, video, local news link, archive clue, business, volunteer need, or community win.
Route it safely
Private family media goes to archive review, gatherings go to event review, and public stories go to curation.
Protect living people
Exact addresses, minors, living people, and sensitive notes stay out of public spaces unless deliberately approved.
Share what helps
Approved items can appear in Thomas News, branch pages, public event listings, or future heirloom graphics.
Member activity
Things a Thomas can actually do
The strongest loop is simple: create a profile, post a clue, honor someone, invite a relative, and come back when another Thomas responds.
Reunions and events
Plan gatherings with public invitations, private locations, RSVP tracking, branch audiences, and admin review inside the Community area.
OpenProfiles and introductions
Verified members can show a shareable calling card: photo, region, research focus, and how they can help.
OpenFamily media
Photos, videos, audio, documents, and memories go through archive privacy controls before anything public appears.
OpenThomas News
A recurring rhythm for family wins, record lessons, reunion photos, community service, and calls for help.
OpenDirectory and heirlooms
Approved businesses and heritage heirlooms can fund the project without mixing commerce into private genealogy review.
OpenContribution queue
Anyone can submit a clue, public article, reunion note, source lesson, tradition, or community win for review.
OpenVerified family feed
Post discoveries, family questions, reunion memories, and help requests inside the member layer.
Open feedHonorable Thomases
Nominate famous, overlooked, local, or family Thomases who deserve to be remembered.
Nominate someoneMember priorities
Verified members vote on what deserves attention. Sources still decide what becomes fact.
Vote on priorities