October 2007

We are pleased to announce that there are now over 10 Million Profiles on Geni! These profiles were created by our 750,000 (and growing) users, who continue to build out their trees, invite family members, and document their family’s history on Geni. Here is an update on the size of top 100 trees: #1 Tree: 19,696 profiles#2 Tree: 19,139 profiles#3 Tree: 18,340 profiles#10 Tree: 10,002 profiles#100 Tree: 3,545 profiles#200 Tree: 2,433 profiles Congratulations to our… Read the full story

The Geni Team will be attending the Texas State Genealogical Society’s 47th Annual Conference in Tyler, Texas November 9 – 10, 2007.  If you’re in the neighborhood please stop by and say hi.  You can learn more here.

Introducing Our Guest Blogger, Bennett Greenspan, President of Family Tree DNA Genealogy is the ultimate ‘family social network’ because it unites and reunites long lost and far flung family members. During the past 4 centuries our ancestors have spread out from (basically) European roots and traveled to all corners of the world… in most cases carrying only the clothes on their backs and their name with them…. and that’s the point… they carried their names… Read the full story

We have made some behind the scenes changes to the site that should improve performance for larger trees.  Because of these optimizations we have been able to make the following enhancements: Blood Relative Count – The User Stats on your profile now includes a count of your Blood Relatives and your Inlaws. These are also available in a list view. Relationship Limitations – The limitations on cousin and grandparent relationship descriptions has been removed (the… Read the full story

As of 3:30pm PDT, October 2nd, the site is back up and running.  Enjoy!

Tuesday, October 2nd, starting at 1:00pm PDT, geni.com will be offline to perform routine maintenance.  Sorry for the short notice, but we expect to be back very soon.