@Andrew - hehehehe. you said techcrunch’d.

At least they have a cool site down pic.

Nice job TC. It’s up, it’s down. It’s up again. lol. I managed to get 28 family members posted before meltdown last night. It’s quite addictive, and the Flash GUI is superbly done. This is the slickest Flash-based GUI I’ve seen in quite some time. Now they just need to scale those servers out to support the TC Crowd. I think the viral nature of the app is probably overwhelming them right now.

I think pretty soon they’ll make us all downlines and start selling us something

Cool interface though. Geneology 2.0

This is retarded.

I went to the site to try out their flash app — then decided to back out due to concerns about the security issues related to a private start-up holding critical data: access to mother’s maiden names, birthdays, etc…

As mentioned in an earlier post — you can’t delete an entry once its been attached to an e-mail addreess! As a matter of fact - you can’t even see that e-mail address once it’s attached! You can only add “additional e-mail addresses”.

The best I can do at this point is over-write the correct names with fake names. I hope Geni addresses this problem.

I think this is a pretty cool site. I agree completely about the viral nature; i added just my immediate family this morning and when I went back this afternoon the rest of my family had made some significant progress without me. It’ll be cool to see how far we can map out our tree.

If you like Geni, you will love http://www.zooof.com. Give me a mail at jp@zooof.com and I wil send you a beta invitation.

Loved this site and had a blast filling it in with my sister. We seem to have gotten some “technical difficulties” error message part way through and now can’t invite anyone. All email addresses are being reported as invalid (despite knowing that they are not. Hope we didn’t break the beta.

Can’t get this working in FireFox on Ubuntu…

Finally a cool website - with the right morals aspects!
Heterosexual is the ONLY and REAL way to go!

Im signing up right now!

Here in Europe people are falling short in the moral values,
children is given to this people, who choose to live that way(or are sick), don’t blow it up in the USA!

Its simply stupid to say that sick persons(homo) is NOT sick, it would be like saying people with cancer is not sick! A cure is the way to go OR they must take the consercvent like no children - people like this need real help - not someone lyring you not sick. Lets its be a win win solution instead

Did the monks or noons get any children? Why should the homos then?
Choose=End like Dinosaurs OR cure

btw.
Ofcause the other tech problems is bad, and must be solved,
hey its a beta.

Best Regrads and God Bless!
Johannes
CEO at http://www.wiimes.com
- Talk with your website visitors!

LOL @ 109. I think he’s dead serious. That is one of the funniest “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature” defenses I’ve seen in a long time.

@109, 52, 33, 5, etc:

I don’t think this is a question of morality or prejudice, although I certainly agree with you that they should allow a mechanism for homosexual marriages/unions. Consider: even adopted children aren’t the literal “children” of the people who raised them, even if they might call them “mom” and “dad”.

Maybe Geni is just attempting to map out what its name sounds like: the actual genetic links between people, not the societal links. If this is the case, it absolutely makes sense for them not to allow “parental” links between two people of the same gender.

However, from the terminology they’ve used on the website (i.e., “wife,” “husband”), I completely agree with you. They should change that or allow what you have asked.

#33. yeah, Geni doesn’t recognize the fact that my father married our sheep, either - even though mama had enough facial hair that sometimes I could not tell them apart. it is an outrage, and may the odorous sweat of 1000 camels fill the nostrils of those who dishonor us.

Sorry, it’s http://dandelife.com/ (not “dandilife”). Would be a great “mashup” to consolidate the lifeline of a single person into a family tree.

It be interesting to see a mashup between Geni and http://www.ourstory.com. There you can post life stories, place information, photos and comments to other people’s life timelines. That combo might make it easier to post genealogical histories, not just the dates and places, but the actual life stories that make the biographies and place stories of genealogy so rich.

Is Geni doing any DNA testing as a supplemental product? Seems like it’d go hand-in-hand. I just had mine done at dnatribes.com and it’s amazing how different it is from the known family tree.

This is just a lame copy of what the LDS is doing on their new web site - and they announce it as their own idea? Huh?

Woohaha! This looks like like web site 101 homework project. ROFLMAO.
This is a “Web 2.0″ company? Who was dumb enough to fund this? OMG.

Brad Munchie, what are you talking about? There’s nothing new on the LDS website. Is it still familysearch.org? There’s nothing like geni there.

Bad idea. Look at the rights thay reserve. You give them the right to do what they want with your content. Look at item 2 under Proprietary Rights in Content. This is scary.

The Terms of Agreement Arba is referencing are currently under review. We’ll keep you posted as to changes that may occur–we’ll also post updates on the Geni Blog.

Geni has experienced a tremendous response, especially since the recent Wall Street Journal article. We are working as fast as we can to keep up with growing traffic and layer on new and exciting features–some of which are privacy related and include relationship-dependent displays of personal information. Different displays will be seen depending on whether the person viewing the page is an immediate family member, a blood relative, or a distant in-law. Users will also be able to choose options that shield specific information from others.

For those who’ve posted earlier: we do support same-sex relationships and are working on he adoption issue.

The Geni Team

As promised here’s the latest update on the status to changes of our Terms of Agreement. First we’re removing section 5.2 while we review it. Geni’s intent is that users’ copyrightable materials remain their own per provision 5.1 below—note the first sentence. The caps represent an addition.

5.1 Geni.com does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) that you post to the Geni Services. After posting your Content to the Geni Services, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By displaying or publishing (”posting”) any Content on or through the Geni Services, you hereby grant, AND YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO GRANT, to Geni.com a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the Geni Services.