Geni, designing your family tree

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Have you ever been interested in your family tree? I have been using Geni, a free family tree builder that rocks, a “tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family”.

Geni.com Logo

This family tree builder has a nice and clean design, it is easy to add relatives to your tree with all the personal information, including an email address that is going to be used to invite that person to your tree. Then, together, all the relatives can continue building that tree.

The tree itself has a nice design and easy to use navigation tools. The rest of the site is mostly navigated through tabs.

Geni Family Tree and Tabs Screen Shot

Geni also displays relatives sorted by location on a Google Map.

Geni Family on Map Screen Shot

I like Geni but I have some negative critics. The site could have more integration with other services, for example, allowing me to link my flickr account to Geni. The site is only in English language, but, how many families now a days are based in only one country?

Another important thing is that Geni does not have an import/export feature right now, but they say that they are working on that, using GEDCOM files. Also, a mobile interface could have been nice.

At last but not least, I have seen that Geni has only ads provided by Google and most of them are from competitors. Someone in Geni should have a look on that.

  • http://www.geni.com The Geni Team

    Thanks for the cool write up about Geni. And thanks for the suggestions. The features and tools we’ve build and will continue building come as a result of input from our users and suggestions we read about on blogs like yours.

    You may not realize that we currently have GEDCOM export. We expect import to follow later this year.

    I’ve given you our private email address so please feel free to contact me if you have other questions or comments. I also have a Geni t-shirt that I’d like to send you but will need more information from you.

    Again, thanks for the mention.

  • Steve

    Nice to hear that they will support import soon… I like Geni.

  • http://www.MyFamily.cn Laa

    The MyFamily.cn website is designed to make Chinese family relationship and connection closer under the condition of fast pace life and long distance from other family members, resulted from the economic development and intra-migration in China. It provides families a flexible space to record and share their family daily life. It is designed to let Chinese families “pursue the root (ancestor)” of their families. It is also designed to be a specific environment in which local community, government and business can share information, and in which life quality improved.

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    integration with other services
    yes