Tafahaona: Family Search

Tafahaona helps adults looking for a separated relative compare family descriptions without placing a readable record in a public directory.

Names change across scripts, spelling varies, and ages are often approximate after displacement. Tafahaona turns the details each person remembers into a conservative private comparison. It supports Latin, Bengali, Arabic, and Cyrillic name forms, allows a three-year age range, and weighs broad origin and distinguishing details without revealing a near miss.

HOW IT WORKS

1. Describe one person using the spelling and script you know, an approximate age, a broad birth region, and an optional distinguishing detail.
2. Add one private family question and the answer you expect the right person to know.
3. Choose a safe contact channel that does not reveal anyone's current location.
4. Tafahaona checks padded, blinded comparison features through an encrypted relay.
5. If enough independent details agree, both people see only a cautious proposal.
6. Each person answers the other person's private question. Contact is released only after both answers verify.

KEY FEATURES

- Cross-script name comparison for Latin, Bengali, Arabic, and Cyrillic writing.
- Approximate age handling for uncertain records and memories.
- Broad birth-region and optional distinguishing-detail evidence.
- A conservative threshold that reveals no score, closeness, or partial result.
- Mutual private-question confirmation before either contact channel appears.
- Fixed-size encrypted relay messages that do not contain readable search records.
- Encrypted local storage with Android cloud backup disabled.
- Immediate entry revocation, connection blocking, and safety reporting.
- Optional dedicated app PIN and biometric unlock.
- Automatic expiry for local entries and encrypted relay frames.

DESIGNED FOR CAUTIOUS RECONNECTION

A possible comparison is never presented as proof of identity. Tafahaona does not ask for a photograph, current location, address-book access, public profile, or account. There is no searchable people list, map, social feed, chat room, or agency database.

Private questions should be facts a genuine relative would know but a stranger could not easily research. The app warns against passwords, legal status, hiding places, current addresses, schools, shelters, routes, or any detail that could put someone at risk. After contact is released, begin with a low-risk message and use your own judgement.

PRIVACY AND SECURITY

Readable names, questions, answers, and contact details are encrypted on the device. The relay receives blinded comparison elements, random-looking tags, fixed-size encrypted frames, and short-lived anti-abuse records. It does not receive a readable name, photograph, current location, contact detail, answer, match score, or pair-result log.

Proof-of-effort, daily limits, replay rejection, expiry, and revocation reduce automated fishing. A report blocks the connection on the reporting device and sends an opaque abuse signal for enforcement. Tafahaona includes an in-app Child Safety screen and published child-safety standards.

Tafahaona is intended only for adults aged 18 and over. It prohibits child sexual abuse and exploitation, grooming, trafficking, sexual solicitation, and attempts to obtain a child's location or sexual content.

INDEPENDENT TOOL

Tafahaona is developed by Saifullah Ahad. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by any government, humanitarian agency, tracing organization, or identity authority. It is not an emergency service and does not verify legal or biological identity.

Support: [email protected]
Privacy policy: https://privacy.saifullah.ai/tafahaona.html