We're taking the site down temporarily for some maintenance. In the meantime, you can read about our newest features in our user forum.
We're taking the site down temporarily for some maintenance. In the meantime, you can read about our newest features in our user forum.
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Hot Matches
Find matching profiles instantly while you browse your tree or profiles
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Collaborators
Work with other Geni members to complete your tree and update profiles
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Tree Statistics
Comprehensive statistics for your Family Group, Blood Relatives, and Ancestors
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The new Hot Matches list is the easiest way to find these duplicates. If we have found hot matches for any profiles in your Family Group, they will appear in this list. Use the view similar profiles link to view the matches. If you have not upgraded to a Pro account you can take advantage of our new 14 day free trial.
During the trial period you will have all the advantages of a Pro account, including:
From the list of hot matches, you can either contact the manager of the potential duplicate or review the match and merge the profiles. This is the fastest, easiest way to grow your tree and meet new relatives.
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Confirm match from similar profiles
A few weeks ago we added the ability to merge profiles directly from the hot matches list. This option was only available when you managed or were collaborating with the manager of both profiles. Now you can merge directly from the hot matches list as long as you have edit permission on one of the similar profiles. If you only have permission to edit one profile, a request will be sent to the other manager to complete the merge.
Personal messages when requesting to collaborate
You can now add a personal message to collaboration requests. Use this message to explain why you are sending the request, what profiles or branches of your tree you have in common, or just to introduce yourself!
Hot matches in list views
Hot matches now appear in all list views. Underneath the name of any profile with matches you will see the number of similar profiles and a link to view them.
Merge Issues list
Your merge issues list now includes profiles managed by your collaborators. This will help you find additional merge issues that you can resolve. The most relevant merge issues will appear first in the list.
Note that your friends can view your tree but can’t make changes like your family can. Standard tree privacy applies when friends view your tree, so by default they can’t view your living relative’s personal information. In the future we will remove the option to not share your tree with your friends. If you do not want your someone to be able to view your tree, you should not add them as your friend.
With shared profiles you can make specific profiles more public while maintaining the privacy of the rest of the profiles you manage. You can share any profile you manage. We hope that you will share profiles that are historical, famous, or otherwise significant so that others interested in these profiles can collaborate with you.
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There are now over 15 million profiles connected on one Geni tree. As trees continue to grow and connect to each other, the distinction between users who are ‘connected’ and ‘not connected’ is becoming less important.
We’ve enhanced search to reflect this trend towards one tree that connects everyone. Geni users can now use search to find any profile on Geni whether or not they are connected yet. This will help you find relatives that are already on Geni and connect your trees.
The new search results tabs are All of Geni, Connected to You, and Managed by You. By default, users in our largest tree will search All of Geni and everyone else will search Connected profiles.
One of the benefits of this is that you can view all hot matches in one list without switching between two tabs.
Keep in mind:
* Compare your tree to over 50 million profiles to find duplicates
* Save time adding new branches to your family tree
* Connect with other users that share common relatives
We recently added immediate family name matching to increase the relevance of hot matches. Matches are now based on first name, last name, maiden name, birth year, death year, gender, living/deceased, and immediate family names to provide the most accurate matches possible.
Next is the Match blank years option. When you enter a year search term, such as year of birth, your results will only include profiles that have a matching year. Check the Match blank years box to also include profiles that don't have a year entered. Similar profiles matches uses the match on blank years option to find all potential matches.
Similar profiles now search on maiden name and last name. You'll notice an OR search term in the last name field of these similar profile searches. You can use OR in any name field except for All Names to expand your search.
We hope these enhancements make it easier than ever to find missing branches and duplicates profiles on your tree. Let us know what you think.