July 2007

We are moving our Forums and Help Center and so they will be down temporarily this afternoon.  If you are having trouble reaching them, don’t worry they’ll be back soon. If you need immediate assistance please send an email to help@geni.com.

Last week we posted our first video How to Get Started on Geni.com. Here is our second video, How to Upload Photos on Geni.com. If you ‘subscribe’ to our videos on our YouTube page you will be notified of new videos as we post them. Let us know what you think!

We just released a number of enhancements to Geni: Speed Improvements: We have made a number of changes focused on increasing the speed and performance of your Geni experience. Many of our users, especially those with large trees, should notice improved performance right away.  Here are some of the changes we’ve made to make Geni faster. Tree View Display Change – When you view your tree you will now see ten generations of ancestors displayed—if… Read the full story

We are creating a series of videos to help walk our users through some of the Geni’s features. The first video, ‘How To Get Started on Geni.com’, is posted below. This video is hosted on YouTube so you can easily share it with your friends who are looking for a little extra help starting their Geni tree. If you ‘subscribe’ to our videos on our YouTube page you will be notified of new videos as… Read the full story

Today we announced that out users have created over 5 million profiles since our launch in mid-January just 5 months ago. With the combination of our growing index of names and our new ‘Search Outside Your Tree’ feature, we continue to work hard towards our goal of creating a Family Tree of the whole world. If you are interested you can read the whole press release here Discuss this story