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Geni is user inputted family trees. These are only as good as the research of the person inputting them. You are better to research yourself and find sources that confirm that each parent/child relationship is correct and each spousal relationship is correct. Don't just use baptism records and such. Confirm the families with the likes of census ...
Sep 24, 2019 · You’ll also learn how Geni and MyHeritage work together to help improve the quality of the World Family Tree and connect you to new relatives. Introduction. 2m 12s. Publish Your Work. 11m 26s. Leverage Existing Research. 7m 36s. Smash Brick Walls. 6m 2s.
- 55 min
- Bottom Line Up Front
- Adding People to Geni
- Collaborative Family Tree Etiquette
- More Data Entry Issues
- Profile Page
- Permissions
- Importing A Gedcom File
- Smartcopy Browser Extension
- Matching and Merging Duplicate Profiles
- Record Matches and Smart Matches
Like FamilySearch Family Tree (FSFT), WeRelate,and WikiTree,Geni.com is a shared family tree website. The following table compares theirsize and cost: Geni, which has been owned by MyHeritage.com since 2012 (more on that below), is the second largest player in the shared family tree space and has the potential to be a good option for those who want...
Since Geni’s goal is to createone World Family Tree, people other than possibly yourself should be attached to existingprofiles as a parent, child, or spouse, and there are three main ways to do so,either by manually adding the information, using a browser extension calledSmart Copy, or importing a GEDCOM file, which I’ll discuss below. Adding aper...
This is a good time to bring up etiquette on collaborative family tree websites like Geni, FSFT, and WikiTree, which isn’t much different from etiquette on other collaborative websites, like Wikipedia, or even social media. I have seen people do some pretty stupid things on these websites, treating them like their own personal family trees. I have ...
When editing names, if there’s more than one name, all of the text is selected when clicking in the box, and it’s not possible to select only one of them; it’s either all or nothing. This is a problem if you want to copy or cut and paste one of the names. For example, if both the first and middle names are in the First Name box, you can’t just sele...
I find the profile page for people to be cluttered, redundant, confusing, and non-intuitive, although there are a few nice features, as annotated in Fig. 9. To me the worst part about the page is the display of the family group; it wastes a lot of space and is hard to visually scan and find information. Geni could take a few cues from Ancestry.com ...
Permissions determine what actions a user can take on a profile, but sometimes it’s hard to understand what those permissions are. Permissions depend on your Family Group, project membership, and whether you’re a Profile Manager or Curator. The chart at Fig. 13, taken from the Geni Privacy Policy page, helps explain who can edit profiles and what t...
Besides adding profilesmanually, another way of adding them is to import a GEDCOM file. Although Geni brieflyallowed GEDCOM imports prior to 2012, it stopped them for over seven yearsbecause so many duplicate profiles were created that needed to be merged,creating extra work for all involved users. Geni restored GEDCOM imports in Feb2019 with some ...
The third major way of adding information and profiles (with special permission for the latter) is to use a browser extension called SmartCopy. It’s availablefor Chrome-based browsers, Firefox, and Opera and works well to copy basic data (birth, baptism, death, burial, and even profile photo) to the corresponding Geni profile from supported website...
After adding or merging profiles, inevitably there will be other duplicates that must be merged, such as for parents, spouses, and children. Geni makes it fairly easy to do with the “Merge Nearby Duplicates” tool mentioned above, which can be accessed either from a profile’s Actions menu or the tree view. The same window as Fig. 22 opens, and you d...
In addition to Tree Matches, which are (potentially) matching profiles on Geni, there are Record Matches and Smart Matches, which come from MyHeritage (Fig. 27). All of these matches are really “possible matches,” until a human has confirmed the matches. Smart Matches are matches with people in MyHeritage and FamilySearch family trees, while Record...
Aug 13, 2021 · Geni Review Summary. Geni’s mission to build a World Family Tree is one to take note of, and with over 150 million profiles, they are well on their way. Despite having a commendable goal, customers say that the company lacks in supervising all these profiles.
Feb 24, 2019 · Geni Review 2020 – Conclusion. Geni’s commitment to creating a World Family Tree is commendable, and the objective does lay a foundation for healthy collaboration among the service’s subscribers. Community building and collaborative features are Geni’s strengths, and for beginners and genealogy research experts alike, it’s not hard to ...
Jan 16, 2007 · Like Geni, it has a Flash-based interface for adding people to your tree as well as for navigating it. Geni is not as snazzy as Amiglia, but it is much easier to use. Data entry is a snap, because ...
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Dec 7, 2020 · The Geni World Tree is a collaborative family tree that aims to represent all people in the world. The goal is to merge and curate tree profiles added by Geni members into a single tree. It’s important to understand that you don’t “own” a tree on Geni.com.
