Plain and simple, comparatively speaking, My Heritage is very user friendly and Geni IS NOT USER FRIENDLY.
Geni in my estimation is useless; how they can say they have so many users when they are not user friendly is beyond belief.
I live in BC, Canada and a relative in Denmark uses Geni, so I have attempted several times to add a lot of the Danish connections relatives and find it near to impossible.
MyHeritage is what I use; mind you it could be perked up a bit but it is certainly much easier to access and use than Geni is for sure.
That’s my opinion and I’ll stick to it because I’m Truth Guy.

Very slick … could be a nice acquisition

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Looking at their Alexa stats, MyHeritage should add 150.000 profiles (not active users, not users, not family trees) a day. Probably via a mixture of Gedcom imports and profil-adding on their site. I would guess Geni.com is at least adding half of that via profil-adding only.

17.2m users given 150k trees rings not true. That would imply over 110 users per tree. 10 on average at most seems right. That would lead to 1.5m users, pretty much in line with the Comscore data.

Disclosure: I am co-founder of verwandt.de, Germany´s leading family tree site. We will launch in Polan and Italy the coming two weeks. With truly localized versions (each with local domain, own country head etc.).

In addition, we will launch our Gedcom im- and export-Tool next week. Completely free of charge for all users. We will position us as the operating system and the Facebook of genealogy.

Techcrunch has argued in the past that we would not innovate, be surprised what is to follow

Best, Sven from verwandt.de-Team

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I advocate neither, and have used neither.

I have a one set of grandparents who were divorced in 1933. Remarried immediately. But the children (my parent, sisters, etc) were all from the first marriage.

This one usecase isn’t even covered in Heritage. They have no concept of divorce at all, that I can tell. And they have very rigid ideas about structuring the data, with required fields even if you don’t know the data (for example, if you know a grandparent’s first name, wouldn’t you rather have that, than nothing at all because you don’t know a lastname?)

Geni has structured fields, and will take whatever you’ve got. It also understands the concept of divorce, children being apart of only some of the family, being deceased without a known death year, etc.

I can also just drag two fingers around the page to move and resize it. For ancestral visualization.. that rocks.

I have to say, after entering all this info, I’m far more impressed with the usability of Geni, and would at this point much rather use that service.

And I would imagine the other users would feel the same way.

Like most things technological, you often have to use it to get it and see what actually works. But I’d suggest in future not just taking the screen shots.

It only took me 10 minutes on each site to figure out which site has done the real usability work. It’s nice that Heritage has done the architectural upgrades, but when they did the matching, they tried to push me to “parr-hodder” family which is not mine at all. In fact they trapped me there and I had to close and reopen to get out of it.

Geni is hands down the winner. The only thing I can’t tell is how much of it is shared semiprivately or just mine, and what I can push out to everyone. But I’m sure that will come as I use it more.

We have family data that goes back to 1307 on the hodder side, and I’m kind of excited to put it all in Geni and check it out visually.

mary

As some other blogs have suggested (such as Tech Crunch’s Arrington himself, on http://www.tech...e-peanut-butter, or more recently http://techitea...web-20-concept/ , or even Bnee : http://www.bnee...o-check-it-out/ ), Geni should merge with a social network. This will provide added value to both.

Famillion- I’d do a name change right now to something like bazzaboomr (babyboomer) (only joking)