Comments on: Geni’s Quest Toward One World Family Tree

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:43:22 +0000

Big Picture Story (on Genealogy) on the “Family Forest Project®” from the Big Island of Hawaii:

This is a story on how this company is connecting the dots to recorded history:

http://www.familyforest.com
A People-Centered Approach To History®

By: od

od — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:48:46 +0000

What is the point with using a genealogy site that only let you see up to your third cousins? Geni uses “everyone’s related” in their logo, however they will not let you know how, so it’s pretty misleading. .

Geni is the worst offender of all the Genealogy sites when it comes to security, they have so many security bugs that easily allows unauthorised access to private data.

If you register your relatives email, you can expect Geni to target these registered emails with excessive spam. You relatives will not thank you for adding them to Geni, but curse you for the 3 mails-a-day from Geni.

Geni has aggressively pushed features such as “virtual gifts” in order to cash in on users. You can expect them to exploit any opportunity to cash in on any of your relatives no matter age in the near future.

Geni is a hungry moneytrap for your family and I would definitely not recommend anyone using it. Just read their user forum and see how much criticism they get.

They should change their logo to “Geni – everyone’s retarded” since that is how they treat their userbase,

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Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:48:39 +0000

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By: voiceip

voiceip — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:07:04 +0000

You stop this!!! (-:

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:40:08 +0000

Geni obviously has nice features. I also have built a similar site, only it is more private and less genealogy-related. (www.familyden.com) The one big tree concept really is fun to think about.

By: Billy Huffman

Billy Huffman — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:54:00 +0000

I think this is a great site and have been able to get my family members really interested in it and they have been adding family and pictures every day

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:03:59 +0000

Seems like they like to mislead their audience and the media…. how and when will they ever make the venture capital money back they are burning through??
Oh, and not to mention make money from their web 2.0 site.

By: Family Tree | James Tharpe

Family Tree | James Tharpe — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:43:57 +0000

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By: RKM

RKM — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:05:32 +0000

Don’t forget the cult favorite http://www.tribalpages.com Its got one of the simplest user interfaces and has powerful features for the serious genealogist. I think Ancestry is going to go under very soon the way they are burning through their venture funds.

By: Nina Lomaz

Nina Lomaz — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:58:52 +0000

CHeck your facts!!
“Prior to the release of the merge feature, Geni’s largest tree was just 35,000 profiles. ”
Impossible. Their maximum import is 15,000.

By: Reno Peng

Reno Peng — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:02:47 +0000

http://trends.g...=all&sort=0

found this interesting trend, it does indicate some of the success Geni has achieved in the past year.

By: Family Tree Wars Continue: MyHeritage Raises Big Round, Shows Impressive Growth | imanDirect Blog

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:49:38 +0000

[...] been just a few days after our post on Geni’s big growth numbers – and now big news from Israeli competitor [...]

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:52:32 +0000

btw, excellent contextual use of alias here.

seriously: clap, clap, clap.

By: Sidney

Sidney — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:45:35 +0000

Geni is nice, but looks too much like a Facebook clone. They copied the colors, the profile layout, and everything except the tree editor right from Facebook. I like MyHeritage better, but there are other sites out there that provide the same service, worth checking out.

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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:18:55 +0000

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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:37:42 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:34:56 +0000

I thought the comment was clear but perhaps not. Because Geni restricts profile editing, trees die out. If Geni allowed family members to continue editing family profiles by default, trees would remain vibrant. Your comparison to wiki is actually a good one. The concept would work much better with less restrictive editing policies.

By: Family Tree Wars Continue: MyHeritage Raises Big Round, Shows Impressive Growth

Family Tree Wars Continue: MyHeritage Raises Big Round, Shows Impressive Growth — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:30:08 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:27:30 +0000

kP, can’t you just have 2 or 3 profiles?

By: Alexis

Alexis — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:18:34 +0000

“It’s a small world after all” just like Disney said!

http://www.npr....&m=15401057

By: Michiel van der Blonk

Michiel van der Blonk — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:48:25 +0000

This is why people claim their profiles, to edit it themselves. Why would you still want to mess with it? You should’ve told them not to claim it if they would like you to update it. It’s not a wiki…

By: Enscriber

Enscriber — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:51:40 +0000

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By: Avi

Avi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:53:48 +0000

Uhm, who copied whose tree interface??? They are identical.

By: kP

kP — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:25:15 +0000

If you’re adopted, forget it. I am (twice, yeah, I’m weird – 3 fathers and 2 mothers), IO guess they will get around to accommodating that quark of mine, but in the mean time, um……..

By: some dummy

some dummy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:59:33 +0000

@john Zsabo – there are already way more than two players in this space.
– ancestry.com (by far the biggest tree mapping, just not the same utility as geni)
– ItsOurTree
– myheritage
-onegreatfamily/familytree.com
-others

Once MyFamily and Ancestry figure out how to lock their users and apps together I think they will own this market. The problem is that they haven’t figured it out yet [and may never.]