2010

Profile of the Day: Mariska Hargitay http://www.geni.com/people/Mariska-Hargitay/6000000009318013408

Profile of the Day: Leonardo DiCaprio http://www.geni.com/people/Leonardo-DiCaprio/6000000009019102421

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Angelina Jolie http://www.geni.com/people/Angelina-Jolie/6000000002742902340

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Julia Roberts http://www.geni.com/people/Julia-Roberts/6000000004293508470

Profile of the Day: Andrew Lloyd Webber http://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-Baron-Lloyd-Webber/6000000009255743180

Profile of the Day: Louis XVI of France http://www.geni.com/people/Louis-XVI-of-France/6000000000843362199

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Bettie Page http://www.geni.com/people/Bettie-Page/6000000009130260995

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Jayne Mansfield http://www.geni.com/people/Jayne-Mansfield/6000000009318085261

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Marilyn Monroe http://www.geni.com/people/Marilyn-Monroe/6000000005395646559

Profile of the Day: Oscar Hammerstein http://www.geni.com/people/Oscar-Hammerstein/6000000006769686604

Profile of the Day: Gene Hackman http://www.geni.com/people/Gene-Hackman/6000000008797336360

10:30PM PST UPDATE: We're back! 10:15PM PST We're having some unexpected difficulties right now, but we expect the site to be back in a few minutes. We'll keep this blog post updated.

Profile of the Day: Ringo Starr http://www.geni.com/people/Ringo-Starr/6000000009265739129

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Henry Mancini http://www.geni.com/people/Henry-Mancini/600000000925469819

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Audrey Hepburn http://www.geni.com/people/Audrey-Hepburn/6000000008452405532

Profile of the Day: Thomas Jefferson http://www.geni.com/people/President-Thomas-Jefferson/6000000003849466047

Update: The maintenance took less time than expect. We're back!  Geni.com will be unavailable tonight at 7PM PST for about 30 minutes. We'll keep this blog post updated.

We’ve created this short video to explain how Geni uses collaboration to make it really easy to find new relatives and build your family tree. If you want to explain how Geni works to your family or friends, just send them this video! 

Profile of the Day: Robert Byrd http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Carlyle-Byrd/6000000009198264074

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Alexander Skarsgård http://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Skarsgård/6000000009189245747

Profile of the Day: Denis Leary http://www.geni.com/people/Denis-Leary/6000000009189117417

Profile of the Day: Monica Bellucci http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000009075659181

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Ennio Morricone http://www.geni.com/people/Ennio-Morricone/6000000008771866292

Is Dracula an ancestor of Robert Pattinson? http://www.geni.com/people/Vlad-Tepes/6000000002447338054

Profile of the Day: Robert Pattinson http://www.geni.com/people/Robert-Pattinson/6000000007966488778

Profile of the Day: David Beckham http://www.geni.com/people/David-Beckham/6000000009145719203

Geni's user base is truly international, with family trees extending around the globe. Our largest tree connects users from Israel to Estonia, from Norway to Malaysia, and just about everywhere in-between. Over half of our users come from outside of the United States, even though Geni has only been available in English – until now. A few weeks ago we invited a small group of users to use our new translation tools to translate Geni…. Read the full story

Profile of the Day: Nicolas Cage http://www.geni.com/people/Nicolas-Cage/6000000000769302404

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: Tom Cruise http://www.geni.com/people/Tom-Cruise/6000000008052817842

One of Today’s Highlighted Profiles: José Saramago http://www.geni.com/people/José-Saramago/6000000009091744067

Profile of the Day: Ansel Adams http://www.geni.com/people/Ansel-Adams/6000000002966447793

Profile of the Day: Dakota Fanning http://www.geni.com/people/Dakota-Fanning/6000000008772312839

Today's highlighted profile is Coco Chanel http://www.geni.com/profile/index/6000000008953394470 Are you related to one of the 105 people in her tree?

Update 9:55 PDT: Geni is back up. We will update this post as we monitor for further issues. Geni is experiencing technical difficulties. Server issues began around 9:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time. Our engineers have deployed a fix and the site should return momentarily.

This Father’s Day, give the gift of family history from Geni. Our personalized options make great gifts for all the dads in your life. Personalized Family Tree Poster:  Because your family tree is already on Geni, sending a poster takes just  a few minutes. Personalize his poster with your choice of designs and colors. Each includes up to five generations of relatives, and can be express-shipped directly to nearly anywhere in the world. Give Dad… Read the full story

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