yu need to type /k into the discussion box under the "general" tab
or you can left click the little world bubble thing next to say: (where you type stuff) and select kinship in the small menu that pops up.
Something totally different: Could everyone please put they're forum name in the notes (you can do that in the kinship panel)
Some of us named our characters after our forum names.
some of our forum names weren't available...
Mine should be easily spotted
My name is never available since everyone likes to copy me. So I went with something that sounded the same