My Family Tree Pt. 3

Shawn | December 30, 2008 in Journal | Comments (0)

I dreamt of Geni?

So I’ve been buried up to my eyebrows with links and sites (physical and the web kind..) , books, forums, etc looking for genealogy for the past year off and on. I’ve been gathering names and dates, places, events concerning both sides of my family and it’s brought me to all kindsa new places. However, I somehow seemed to miss a particular site called Geni.

Geni is a social neworking site ala Myspace/Facebook for tracing the family tree and keeping in touch, planning events, etc. What a fantastic idea. I was looking at the Ancestry.com version a month or 2 ago (My Family I think it’s called) and wondered what the interest level would be since I had sent out a communication to some of my aunts and uncles asking for help and info and got no replies. Let’s just say I was more than surprised on Xmas eve when my Mother told me she invited me to the site. I explored in amazement. How could I have missed this?

The tree was started by my uncle Phil Stratton (thanks again Phil!) and people started logging on, me included. I joined the tree and immediately looked for and found details on how to add a GEDCOM file, since I’ve put together a decent sized tree using Family Tree Maker on my desktop. Since there wasn’t much up yet by Phil and David, the merge was relatively painless. Ok, there was some hairpulling and frothing at the mouth at the beginning I admit.. Now all my work is up on a platform that includes everyone in a very interactive and fun way. I’m excited to see the network grow and flourish.

It feels new, lots of buzzing in the forum about new ways to improve, bug fixes, work arounds.. Lots to come I’m sure. This is an exciting development More later ~S