Relic Chat — all communication between family and genealogists in one place
Our own development: a secure messenger where you message your genealogist and project manager, discuss finds with relatives, and exchange photos and documents. Files from the conversation are saved to My documents automatically.
Andrey Mitin, genealogist for the Black Earth region archives, and Elena Kovalyova, project manager, are in the chat.
A familiar messenger — just for your family history
Everything you're used to in chats, plus what they don't have: a link to your project, archive, and tree.
A chat for every project
The manager and genealogists write about finds, ask questions, and send scans — all in one thread tied to your research.
Family groups
Start a shared chat with relatives: discuss photos, recall names, share news about the search.
Photos, documents, voice messages, and video
Send anything: scans, pictures from the album, recorded stories. Everything is kept in the conversation and in the archive.
Calls and video calls
Talk through the finds by voice or show your genealogist an old document through the camera. With screen sharing.
Notifications on your phone
Installs as an app straight from the browser. A new find — a notification on your screen, even if the chat is closed.
Files go to My documents
Every 15 minutes, files from the project chat are moved to the family archive, linked to the project, with no duplicates.
About the archiveRelic Chat connects every section of the platform
Nothing gets lost: a find from the chat goes into your documents, a relative's memory into the tree and onto a memory page, and the family website is discussed right where it is born.
A closed circle: only you, your relatives, and the team
Only participants get into the project chat: you, invited relatives, the manager, and the genealogists. Messages and files are stored on our servers in Russia, not in someone else's cloud, and are processed in accordance with Law 152-FZ.
- 1Encrypted connection — data between your device and the server travels over a secure HTTPS/TLS channel
- 2Sign-in only through your platform account — sessions are stored on the server, and any of them can be ended from your account
- 3Private chats — only participants see the messages, and no one gets in without an invitation; finances are discussed only with the project owner
- 4Our own servers in Russia — only the center's administrators have access to them; your project history is not lost when you change phones
Questions about Relic Chat
Sign-in, privacy, notifications, and files.
What is Relic Chat?
Why a separate messenger when there are familiar ones?
How do I sign in to Relic Chat?
Who sees the project conversation?
Does it work on the phone, and do notifications come through?
How do files from the chat get into my documents?
Who will I be talking to during the research?
Open Relic Chat — and stay in touch with your family history
Your genealogist will write about the first find, your aunt will send a photo from the album, and you will see it all in one place — in your documents and in the tree.