{"id":98493,"date":"2017-09-14T15:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=98493"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T22:46:41","slug":"new-create-a-branch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/new-create-a-branch-98493.html","title":{"rendered":"New: Create a Branch"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to announce a new feature to help you create\u00a0an unconnected family tree branch\u00a0on\u00a0Geni. If you want to build the family tree for a person not yet on Geni and you don’t know how the person is\u00a0related, you can now easily start an unconnected\u00a0branch of the tree and work towards\u00a0finding its\u00a0connection to the World Family Tree<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are many times when you may have information about a person or family, but do not\u00a0yet know how they are connected to the existing family tree on Geni. In the past, users would often add\u00a0a fake relative to an existing person in the tree and then remove\u00a0the\u00a0relationship to split the tree.<\/p>\n

With this new tool, everyone can easily create unconnected branches for profiles not yet on Geni for free.<\/p>\n

\"New:<\/a><\/p>\n

To create a new branch, click on ‘Research’ at the top of the page and select ‘Create a Branch.’<\/p>\n

\"New:<\/a><\/p>\n

This will open a page for you to start an unconnected branch of the tree. You will see\u00a0that\u00a0the page is similar to the form for adding new relatives\u00a0in the tree. Simply add the information for the unconnected person and click ‘Save.’<\/p>\n

\"New:<\/a><\/p>\n

Once you have saved your information, you will be taken to the tree for the newly added\u00a0profile. You can continue adding profiles\u00a0to build out the tree until\u00a0you or others finally discover how this branch\u00a0connects to the World Family Tree.<\/p>\n

To locate this branch again, type the person’s\u00a0name into the Search box or browse\u00a0the list of profiles you follow.<\/a><\/p>\n

A word of caution:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you already know where a person belongs in the tree, you should\u00a0go back to the tree and add them onto one of the existing profiles.<\/p>\n

Before creating a new branch, you should always\u00a0do a quick search<\/a> to make sure the profile has\u00a0not been added to\u00a0Geni. Keep in mind\u00a0that\u00a0adding\u00a0duplicates of existing profiles creates more work for you, your collaborators and Geni curators.\u00a0Valuable time will then need to be spent\u00a0merging all the new duplicates instead of\u00a0working to\u00a0 improve\u00a0and expand\u00a0the World Family Tree. Please use this responsibly!<\/p>\n

If you have an unconnected family tree that you want to build, go\u00a0create a new branch<\/a>\u00a0now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re excited to announce a new feature to help you create\u00a0an unconnected family tree branch\u00a0on\u00a0Geni. If you want to build the family tree for a person not yet on Geni and you don’t know how the person is\u00a0related, you can now easily start an unconnected\u00a0branch of the tree and work towards\u00a0finding its\u00a0connection to the World Family Tree. There are many times when you may have information about a person or family, but do not\u00a0yet know… Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":98498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[4915,121,6797],"class_list":["post-98493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-news","tag-announcement","tag-family-tree","tag-new"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98493"}],"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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98493"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98578,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98493\/revisions\/98578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}