New Feature - Find Your Family
Geni is a collaborative tool that you and your family can use to build a common family history. With the new Find Your Family feature, you can quickly get your family on Geni to help you build your tree and create a scrapbook of your lives, even if you aren’t sure exactly how they are related.
Find Your Family
The easiest way to find family members on Geni is to search your address book. You can import addresses from Outlook, Webmail (such as gmail or yahoo), or from your Address Book. We’ll select anyone that we think you are related to and let you choose your other relatives. You can also invite friends - unrelated people you want to share your photos, videos, events with.
Your relatives will receive an invitation to join Geni they can use to start building their tree. They will also appear in your tree’s sidebar; you can start building their tree for them, and merge it into yours when the trees overlap.
Keep in mind:
- Geni will not store your password or contact information
- Geni will never email anyone without your direct consent
Requests Inbox
The new Requests Inbox helps you manage requests you’ve sent and received on Geni. Now you can quickly view a history of Family, Tree, and Friend requests that you have sent and received. Right from the Requests Inbox, you can accept, decline, cancel, remind, and message users. You will find the Requests Inbox in the Inbox subtab of your Home tab.
Unknown Gender
A new ‘Unknown’ option for gender lets you add relatives of unknown gender. This is useful for adding ancestors with uncertain genders, such as children with unusual names. Profiles with unknown gender will appear as green in your tree.
