We just discovered Rodovid, a wiki-based family tree, and I spent a whole day putting our family tree and connect it with Babad Tanah Jawi family tree. As a result, I managed to find my ancestors, 33 generations before me, up to Ken Dedes (the wife of Ken Arok, the first ruler of Singhasari, Indonesia) and her father. This is my family tree:
The funny thing is Indi and I are at least related through Bhre Kertabumi, centuries ago. This is what we call inbreeding ‘inbreeding’ (a term popularized by the ‘redneck’ community living in Appalachia, the Southern United States, the Ozarks, and later the Rocky Mountain States of the US). I am sure that Indi and I are more closely related, now that Javanese people are related to one another anyway. This is Indi’s family tree:
I also put the Minangkabau family tree, the Jenie family tree, a bit of Champa Kingdom family tree, and a bit of Walisongo family tree(Sunan Gunung Jati and Sunan Ampel). I even found Sang Nila Utama‘s relationship with Minangkabau family, so I put it in as well. Yodhi put the Soemardjan family tree based on Selo Soemardjan biography.
Yodhi also gave a funny suggestion to Rodovid, that is, to create murder-tree in addition to family-tree. You know, the old days of Singasari kingdom was filled with murders between family members and coup d’etats. It would be great if Rodovid put dashed line to indicate who is killed by who. For example, history says that Ken Dedes was kidnapped and forced to become Tunggul Ametung’s wife. Her father cursed Tunggul Ametung, saying he would be killed because of Ken Dedes’ beauty. And when Ken Arok was motivated by the conflict to murder Tunggul Ametung. Later, Anusapati, Ken Dedes’s son from her first husband, murdered Ken Arok and became the second ruler of Singhasari. Can you see the importance?
I encourage you to put your family tree in here. With more family trees put in the database, more people can discover family linkage to others.
Rodovid is newly established and has a lot of potential to develop, particularly if the database is integrated with wikipedia. It really helps people to visualize how the kings and queens of the past relate with each other.
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