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The site is part genealogy, part six degrees of separation: Instead of paying a fee to research family records buried in archives, it asks users to build their own family trees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal &#8211; February 15, 2007 One new entrant, Geni.com, which was launched last month by a former PayPal executive, offers a new model, based on connecting living relatives free of charge. 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