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
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
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!
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.