{"id":5201,"date":"2007-11-10T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geni.com\/blog\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:18:47","slug":"new-features-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/new-features-3-2-5201.html","title":{"rendered":"New Features &#8211; Directory of Family Names on Geni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently announced that our<br \/>\nusers have created 10 Million profiles on Geni. With our growing index<br \/>\nof names we continue to work hard at providing you the tools you need<br \/>\nto find and connect with your family.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you already use<br \/>\nour public search feature to find family members in other trees and<br \/>\ngenealogists researching a shared surname. To increase the value of<br \/>\nthis feature, we will be indexing these same public search results in<br \/>\nGoogle and other search engines. We have also created a Directory of<br \/>\nFamily Names on Geni that links to these search results. This index is<br \/>\navailable to non-Geni users when they visit the Geni homepage. As a<br \/>\nGeni user, you already see these search results in the \u2018Search Outside<br \/>\nYour Tree\u2019 tab of your search results. Note that these public search<br \/>\nresults may take some time to index.<\/p>\n<p>You can continue to<br \/>\ncontrol what information appears in your own search result (and the<br \/>\nsearch results for people you add) in your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/account_settings\/all_account_settings\/\">account settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i234.photobucket.com\/albums\/ee318\/geniteam\/Screenshots\/Picture1-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/last-names\">View the Directory of Family Names on Geni now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.geni.com\/topic.php?id=1898\">Discuss this story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently announced that our users have created 10 Million profiles on Geni. With our growing index of names we continue to work hard at providing you the tools you need to find and connect with your family. Many of you already use our public search feature to find family members in other trees and genealogists researching a shared surname. To increase the value of this feature, we will be indexing these same public search&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/new-features-3-2-5201.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3781],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65631,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/65631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}