August 2008

Come join The Geni Team at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference. This year the conference is being held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – September 3-6, 2008. If you are going to be in the area during those dates we would love to see you.                               The Federation of Genealogical Societies links the genealogical community by: serving the needs of its member societies providing products and services… Read the full story

On Geni the objective is to create a collaborative environment where multiple family members can work together to build, share, and preserve a rich family history. With each additional family member getting involved, the workload decreases that much more and/or the amount of shared content increases that much more. Therefore, over the next three days we will be posting a 3 part guide that will help you activate your tree in becoming a truly collaborative… Read the full story

Step Three: Engage Family Members as They Join As family members start to accept the invitations make sure that you welcome them to the Tree. You can do this by simply sending them a quick message to their GuestBook, which is located at the bottom of their Profile. You may also want to tell them about Geni and that you are trying to create a place for your family to build and preserve family history… Read the full story

Step Five: Send Reminders It is possible that family members overlooked your initial invitation and accidentally deleted it. Therefore, if a few weeks go by and they did not yet join, you may want to send them a reminder invitation. To do this, go to the Invite page, by clicking on the Invite link in the upper right hand corner of any page within Geni. Then click the Invitation History link. This will direct you… Read the full story

In this post, Geni guest blogger and avid genealogist Lisa Alzo explains the importance and overall process of interviewing your relatives. Genealogy is more than just names and dates. Family stories, although sometimes filled with errors, may still contain vital clues for your research.  If you have living relatives, make it a priority to sit down with them to record their oral history.  Ask them if they have any photographs or documents, and be sure… Read the full story

Everyone loves a little competition, right? Geni is challenging everyone to describe the Geni product in a mere 140 characters. The 2 people that post the best and most compelling descriptions will each win some Geni Gear, which is featured below. To participate, go to Twitter and post the best description of Geni you can think of. Also, make sure you are following Geni and direct the message to @Geni so we receive it and… Read the full story

Geni will be offline at 6:30pm pst (in about 15 minues). We should only be offline for a few minutes. We’ll be back real soon! UPDATE: We are back!

The following testimonial was written by April, an avid Geni user. April wanted to share her experience she has had with Geni, to let other people know what they can look forward to experiencing as they start to build their Geni family tree with the rest of their family. In February 2007 I learned about Geni.com, which is when I started building my family tree.  Since then, with the help of my cousins, we have… Read the full story

Are you perplexed about how to begin piecing together your own family history?  Have you been researching for years but now have hit that proverbial brick wall in your research?  Read this post from guest blogger Lisa Alzo, an avid genealogists and author. This is the first post in a new series of posts written to give both the newbie and the more experienced researcher suggestions, tips, and techniques for finding their ancestors. At the… Read the full story