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- 2. Who are my ancestors?
- 3. Everyone’s Related 1 individual 2 parents 4 grandparents 256 6th great grandparents 4,096 10th great grandparents
- 4. Everyone’s Related 4,194,304 20th great grandparents
- 5. World Population 200,000 BC 10,000 20,000 BC 3,000,000 1 AD 300,000,000 1800 1,000,000,000 2011 7,000,000,000
- 6. Everyone’s Related 56 billion 7 billion humans have lived 12.5% are alive today We all descend from an estimated 10,000 people alive just 200,000 years ago
- 7. Who shares my ancestors?
- 11. Key elements of collaborative genealogy • Merge all genealogy data into one tree • Create a single, definitive profile for each person • Everyone sees and works on the same data at the same time • Tools for resolving conflicts and disputes • Data is never lost
- 12. Key benefits • Combining knowledge into a single, accessible data set eliminates the need for redundant research • Once a user connects to an existing tree, they gain immediate benefit from all previous research • Genealogists can focus on finding new information and improving existing data
- 13. What is Geni? Geni is an easy-to-use platform for building your family tree Geni is unique in that our trees are easily connected to one another, building a giant master tree, the World Family Tree Growing community of users working together to build the World Family Tree into the canonical genealogy resource
- 14. Geni Community Every month 500,000 volunteers and 100 curators from 221 countries/territories work together to build the World Family Tree. They merge 250,000profiles and create 6,000,000 revisions as they discover over 1,350,000 relationships to celebrities and historical figures. Their work is viewed by 2,000,000 people every month.
- 15. Industry Recognition Time Magazine – Best 50 Sites of 2008 Family Tree Mag – Best Sites for 2011 PC Magazine – Best Free Software 2010 Adobe MAX – Social Computing 2009 CNET – Webware 100 Winner 2007 Crunchie Awards – Nominee 2007
- 16. Privacy on Geni • No one “owns” their distant ancestors • Privacy for living individuals and children are priorities • Impacted by culture and personal preference
- 17. Privacy on Geni • Good defaults • Let users decide • Don’t limit access
- 18. Charlemagne • Thousands of Geni users descend from Charlemagne • Geni allows these users to maintain their close relatives as private family trees • But, once their family trees reach beyond their third great grandparents, the profiles are public and can be shared and researched collaboratively
- 20. Geni Privacy Default 3rd great grandparents and their descendants
- 21. Your Private Family Tree • Share private content with your close relatives • You choose who can view your private information (Family Group) • Great for photos, birthday greetings, family discussions
- 22. World Family Tree • Research distant ancestors • Collaborate on historical profiles with other genealogists • Meet new (distant) cousins!
- 23. Profiles
- 25. Discussions Is Francois Savoie It’s neither proven nor really the son of disproven. Tomaso? What time is the family reunion? Wikipedia says yes, but doesn’t Be at the park by list a source. 3pm. What are you bringing? The possibility is Potato salad. definitely Grandma’s recipe. there. It’s from a book written in the 1950s. The author didn’t list his source, either.
- 26. Projects African-American Daughters of the Medal of Honor Early Mormon Recipients American Leaders Revolution Sunnmørsprosjektet South Africans’ Geni Landing Geni-Israel R1b-M269 Jewish Families of Vienna Native Portal für American Deutsch Tribes sprahige
- 27. Geni’s World Family Tree Profiles connected by Geni’s World Family Tree: 61,070,944 Geni is creating one family tree for the entire world, built from the collaborative research of millions of genealogists.