February 2009

Connecting your Facebook account to Geni is the fastest and easiest way to add relatives from Facebook to your Geni tree. Connecting is as easy as clicking a button. Then use Facebook’s standard invite tools to invite your relatives to join your tree.  Connecting also allows you to post your Geni activity on your Facebook newsfeed. You can also invite your friends to Geni, where they will be able to view your profile and view… Read the full story

Valentine’s Day is Saturday, February 14th. Have you sent your loved ones a valentine? Now you can send fresh flowers and other real gifts, along with virtual gifts on Geni. You can even schedule your greeting or gift to appear on Valentine’s Day: Send a Valentine’s Day gift on Geni Choose from fun and romantic gifts like these: Geni members get a free vase with any order of fresh flowers from ProFlowers!

Privacy online is very important, especially for children. We've made a couple of enhancements to improve your family's privacy on Geni: Child PrivacyNew Child Privacy settings give you control over the profiles you manage for those under 13 years of age. You can restrict the viewing and editing of their profile. Profiles for those under 13 are never included in search results, and only their relatives and their inlaws can find their profiles from the… Read the full story

One of the goals of Geni is to create a single, comprehensive tree of everyone in the world. Part of this process is curating the tree by finding and merging duplicate profiles. We've made some changes to help the users who are engaged in this process: Request Management: Every profile has a manager, by default the person who added the profile, who controls the privacy of that profile. Sometimes you'll find that a profile is… Read the full story

Update: We're back! Update: Okay, the site may be down briefly in the next few minutes… Update: The site is running fine right now, but we may have to take it down briefly again in a little bit. I'll keep this post updated. We're working on a few updates to the site, so we need to take the site down for a few minutes. We'll be right back.