May 2010

Prince of Persia starring Jake Gyllenhaal opens this weekend. He's got over 2,000 blood relatives on Geni – are you one of them? http://www.geni.com/people/Jacob-Gyllenhaal/6000000008620036422

Erling Kagge is the first person to surmount the "three poles" – North, South and the summit of Mt Everest. Are you related to this Norwegian Explorer? http://www.geni.com/people/Erling-Kagge/6000000008868228925

As promised, Family Tree Posters are now available for delivery outside of the United States.    The 16″ x 20″ posters are available in two formats: Deluxe Framed Canvas ($119.99) – A durable gift or keepsake printed on high quality canvas and mounted in beautiful wood frame Basic Tree Poster ($29.99) – Printed on high quality, archival photo paper Design your tree poster now For more details, view the original announcement, or watch the video… Read the full story

Are you related to Orson Welles? http://www.geni.com/people/orson-welles/6000000008707492313

We’ve added some great new ways to share your genealogy with your Facebook friends. You’ll notice “like” buttons on many public Geni pages, such as profiles, trees, documents, and relationship paths. If you like one of these pages, it will share a link to the page with your Facebook friends. You can even see if any of your Facebook friends have liked the same page! Use the share this path link beneath your relationship path… Read the full story

Discussions are a great way to communicate with other Geni users, whether you are having a private family discussion or a public discussion with the entire Geni community. Whether you are viewing your family discussions or public discussions, you can now choose to view all discussions or just the discussions you are following. Note that you will never see a family discussions started by someone that is not in your family. By default you follow… Read the full story

The following merging enhancements were released today: Merging private profiles The privacy of private profiles is very important to us. We realize that many of our users are not comfortable revealing private information about their close relatives to the larger Geni community. These enhancements are designed to make it easier to merge private profiles without violating anyone’s privacy. When requesting a merge on a private profile, you now have the option to send the merge… Read the full story

In addition to facebook sharing options, better discussions, and merging enhancements, we recently released a number of enhancements and bug fixes: When tagging a photo with an event, you can now select from your events and events associated with anyone tagged in the photo. You can now add an existing document to event. Look for the new “Browse Existing Documents” tab when adding documents to an event. Search results are sortable by first or last… Read the full story

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000008735105389

Profile of the Day: Henry David Thoreau http://www.geni.com/people/Henry-David-Thoreau/6000000008771430630

Profile of the Day: Rekha http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000008771139950

Profile of the Day: Bryce Dallas Howard http://www.geni.com/gXQfb

You've probably seen stories about how President Barack Obama is related to Warren Buffet and other famous people. DId you know that on Geni, not only can actually see how Obama is connected to his famous relatives, but you can even discover how you are related to Obama? That's right, Barack Obama already has 841 blood relatives using Geni. As you build your tree out and use tree matches to add new branches, you could… Read the full story

Profile of the Day: Jon Bon Jovi http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000008701015434

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Jamie Foxx http://www.geni.com/people/Jamie-Foxx/6000000008700761171

Profile of the Day: Viswanathan Anand http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000008744561485

Profile of the Day: Lena Horne http://www.geni.com/people/Lena-Hayton/6000000003208926116

You've build your family tree on Geni and it looks great online, but what about when you're not in front of the computer? Print a family tree poster! These five generation family trees include your family's names, dates and photos on an archival quality poster.     The 16" x 20" posters are available in two formats:  Deluxe Framed Canvas ($119.99) – A durable gift or keepsake printed on high quality canvas and mounted in… Read the full story

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Minka Kelly http://www.geni.com/people/Minka-Kelly/6000000000785280106

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Robert Downey Jr. http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Downey/6000000007996975288

On May 7, 1901 Gary Cooper was born. Are you related? http://www.geni.com/people/Gary-Cooper/6000000008706902866

Profile of the Day: Lynn Redgrave http://www.geni.com/people/Lynn-Redgrave/6000000008670515196