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Are you a "fan" of Geni?

There are already some great Facebook groups that our users have created (such as I Heart Geni.com, geni.com users! Let's see how we are all related!, and Geni). Now, thanks to Facebook's new 'pages' program, there is an official Geni page. Visit the page and add it to let all your friends know that you are a fan of Geni!

Visit the Geni page on Facebook now

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10 Million and counting...

We are pleased to announce that there are now over 10 Million Profiles on Geni! These profiles were created by our 750,000 (and growing) users, who continue to build out their trees, invite family members, and document their family’s history on Geni.

Here is an update on the size of top 100 trees:

#1 Tree: 19,696 profiles
#2 Tree: 19,139 profiles
#3 Tree: 18,340 profiles
#10 Tree: 10,002 profiles
#100 Tree: 3,545 profiles
#200 Tree: 2,433 profiles

Congratulations to our largest trees!

With our growing index of names we continue to work hard at providing you the tools you need to document your genealogy. Look for a number of new features in the coming weeks designed to help you find and connect with your family, while protecting your privacy.

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Geni User Wiki

I am pleased to announce the release of our newest user tool, the Geni User Wiki. The Wiki is now available at wiki.geni.com. This resource is a great tool for:

• Geni User Documentation
• Genealogy Information
• Tips and Tricks

Thanks to a select group of Geni users that were invited to assist in seeding the wiki, there is already a great deal of useful information there. I expect that it will continue grow in value and usefulness as users such as you continue to add information.

Please take some time to look around and feel free to add/edit any information. Let us know if you have any questions or comments.

5 Million Profiles in 5 Months

Today we announced that out users have created over 5 million profiles since our launch in mid-January just 5 months ago. With the combination of our growing index of names and our new 'Search Outside Your Tree' feature, we continue to work hard towards our goal of creating a Family Tree of the whole world.

If you are interested you can read the whole press release here

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An interview with our CEO

Below is a recent interview by Robert Scoble of David Sacks, founder and CEO of Geni, discussing the past, present, and future of Geni.  Enjoy!

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Geni selected as a finalist in Webware 100 awards

We are proud to announce that Geni has been selected by the editors at CNET Webware as a finalist in the first ever “Webware 100” awards.  We were chosen from more than 4,000 user-submitted nominations.  Winners will be announced on Monday, June 18 and posted on Webware.com, a CNET site.

Cast your vote.

More about the Webware 100 Awards-

The “Webware 100” Awards recognizes the best Web 2.0 sites, services, and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation.  Voting is open to the public from Monday, May 14 through June 3, where the top 25 finalists in each category will be listed. 

The ten categories are Browsing (web browsers, extensions, widgets, and security); Communications (e-mail, chat, VOIP); Community (social networks, groups); Data (search, storage, backup, sharing, and sync); Entertainment (games and contests); Media (audio, video, photo); Mobile (portable utilities and apps); Productivity (apps, business tools, commerce); Publishing (blogging, web content, design tools); and Reference (mapping, reference works, and education). 

More information about the award program can be found at www.webware.com/100

Where to Meet the Geni Team

Are you attending the National Genealogical Society Conference and Family History Fair in Richmond, Virginia,  May 16-19?  If you will be there and have time to chat with us please let us know by sending an email to the address listed below.  We have some Geni t-shirts that we will give to the first 15 users who will be attending the show.

The Geni Team will be out in force for the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree June 8-10 in Burbank, California.   We'll be at Tables 501 and 510--stop by and say hi.  We've set aside additional t-shirts to give to the first 15 folks who let us know they will be stopping by to pick them up their t-shirt at the Burbank Jamboree. 

Here's where to send your email:  Genijo@geni.com

We're looking forward to meeting you!

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Geni - now more delicious!

The Geni Team now has a del.icio.us account. We created this account to help track the conversations about Geni around the blogosphere.  If you post something to delicious and want to call our attention to it just mark it with the tag 'Geni' and we will see it.  You can also add us to your delicious network.

We hope this will also help publicize our great blogger friends that have helped us spread the word about Geni.  You will notice that our delicious linkroll is now on our blog sidebar to the right.  This linkroll will show you the five most recent Geni-related links from around the internet.

If you are not yet familiar with delicious, it is a way to organize and share your bookmarks.  You can read about them here.

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Website of the Week

The Technology Evangelist site has named Geni their first 'Website of the Week'.  We are honored by this designation and wanted to share with you the video they created -

In an effort to give you even more video content we are premiering another new feature this week on TechnologyEvangelist. Website of the Week will be a video look at some new and interesting websites out there that you might not have heard of. Ed Kohler will be doing hours of research by surfing the web and finding the best of new websites out there. This week we start with a genealogical website Geni.com.

Blog Comments

Your feedback is very important to The Geni Team.  When we first started this blog, your comments on each post were one of the best ways that we had to communicate with you, our users.  However, we have found that The Geni Forum is an even better way to communicate with each of you and for our users to carry on discussions with each other.

For this reason we have decided to turn off all comments on this blog and move all discussions to The Geni Forum.  You will notice that all new blog posts end with a link to discuss that specific post in a dedicated forum thread.  Head on over and join the conversation!

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