April 2007

Tonight we released a number of new features to Geni.  Here is an overview of our new photo features (for information on the rest of our new features read this blog post). My Photos – We have added a ‘My Photos’ tab next to ‘My Tree’ and ‘My Profile’.  This is your personal photo album and only you can see this tab.  ‘My Photos’ is a compilation of your photos and the photos on your… Read the full story

We are pleased to announce that we have released some exciting new features tonight.  We really think you will enjoy this release, which focuses on sharing photos, creating a paper version of your family tree, and more.  (For the details of our new photo features read this blog post). Printing – One of our most requested features is the ability to print your Geni family tree.  Now you can.  There is a new printer icon… Read the full story

The Geni site went down at 7pm for a short time for scheduled maintenance.  We will post updates here on the blog as they occur.  Thanks for your patience. The Geni Team

Your feedback is very important to The Geni Team.  When we first started this blog, your comments on each post were one of the best ways that we had to communicate with you, our users.  However, we have found that The Geni Forum is an even better way to communicate with each of you and for our users to carry on discussions with each other. For this reason we have decided to turn off all… Read the full story

Update 5/4/2011: The Geni team has changed significantly over the years.  For current info on the team, please visit our Geni Team page.

Tuesday, April 10, starting at 9:00pm PDT, our blog will be offline for approximately two hours to perform routine maintenance.

We have had some questions recently on what some of the different icons and pictures on your family tree mean.  Here is a legend that may help answer some of these questions. So far most of the feedback we have heard from all of you on our last release has been quite positive.  Our engineers are already hard at work on the next round of enhancements.  We hope to have more to tell you about… Read the full story

We just released an update to Geni and we have a few new features to tell you about: Birthday Reminders – When someone on your tree has a birthday you will now receive an email reminder.  This email will include a link that will let you write a special message that will show up in their profile with a special birthday graphic.  Make sure you enter your birthday in your profile if you want to… Read the full story

The Geni site will be down for a short time tonight at 7:30 Pacific Time for scheduled maintenance.  We will post updates here on the blog as they occur.  Thanks for your patience. The Geni Team UPDATE 9:30 PM PDT: Geni.com is back up. UPDATE 9:00 PM PDT: We are working on some final changes that should be finished soon. Thanks you for your patience.