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it easier to use than any other genealogy site, and the collaborative work is generally of an excellent quality. Photos upload easily, there is room for comments of all types, there is a messaging system (ala
Facebook) and a public discussion system as well. New projects (profiles collected by similarities) are being devised daily, and all seems to be moving right along. I am not saying it's perfect, but i am saying that Knowledge is not an appropriate venue to post hater-links.
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proof and search for the proof. But you have to say that some are very fascinated in finding out the family connections between
President Obama and President Trump. And if you are related to one of them. It is a nice free extra. And a part of the Geni website if you like it or not. You can also ignore that feature. But yes there are some features that are funny and look like a game.
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It is a good question and at the moment there is internal discussion between the Geni staff, the lawyers of MyHeritage and the
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This does not appear to be an appropriate section for this article. This site is about Geni.com, not these other sites. I could see perhaps adding them as bullets in a See also section, but that's about it.. at least in this article. A section on the general genealogy article could discuss online
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Well i clicked that "grumblings" link and it was useless. Nothing has been updated there since 2011, and it certainly does not describe the state of Geni at the present time. It's just a slam or hater site, as best i can see. Meanwhile, the site remains popular and continues to grow. I for one find
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importing GEDCOM was blocked for several years, but free or not free account (a pro account) was not an issue. I must say in 8 years Geni.com has become more and more seriously. It is not a parlour game website as far as I know of. I must say you like it or you dislike it. A real genealogists use
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The ancestors of someone you marry. Real genealogists should stay clear of Geni; it is a parlour game website, and perfectly good for that purpose. Before I left I was offered the connections between
President Obama and myself - 18th cousins - for a fee. Some people are fascinated by that sort of
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I added the following texts, but it was removed due to suspected "original research". That is understandable. Much of it was found in various discussion forums, some of it I formulated myself, and I have not found any published source. Can anyone contribute with sources? Most of this criticism is
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For a fee? Really? That sounds unlikely. Is this just some random slam or do you have evidence of such a thing being offered by Geni ... or are you a disgruntled ex-user complaining about Geni Pro (the paid version of the service, with more features) in some obscure way by referring to that as a
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be created, but just because I'm making the redlink doesn't mean that the obligation is on me to create the article. I'd certainly like to, but to be honest I probably don't know enough about the company to do it justice. That said, all this only applies to NOTABLE articles that deserve to be in
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I think it is good to focus on the fact what Geni.com as a company or as a webservice make unic. I think the fact that it support multilanguages and it has a global bigtree is unic. Other websites like wikitree and familysearch has also a global tree. And other websites like myheritage has
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English. However, still limited localization causes inconsistent formatting of geographical information, or missing geographical information. For example, there is no separate field for
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Geni? Or is a lot of this information more suited for Geni's own user documentation? I appreciate the work people have put into this page, but I wonder if it's in the appropriate place.
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