{"id":5614,"date":"2008-09-06T14:13:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-09-06T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T14:13:46","slug":"is-it-possible-to-have-one-world-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=5614","title":{"rendered":"Is it possible to have one world family tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39727\" alt=\"genilogo1\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/genilogo11.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"93\" \/>Genifounder David Sacks has said all along that he wants to create a single family tree for the whole world. Based on some usage stats the company will announce on Thursday, they&#8217;re moving towards that goal: over a million unique visitors in August (growth has been steady).<\/p>\n<p>And the biggest family tree at Geni now has over 680,000 profiles and 40,000 users (profiles include deceased family members).<\/p>\n<p>A key feature driving big trees is the ability to merge smaller ones, which can create a snowball effect. Prior to the release of the merge feature, Geni&#8217;s largest tree was just 35,000 profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Geni now allows users to upload photos and videos, arrange family calendars, etc. As we said over a year ago, the site is clearly aiming to be the family-centered social network:<\/p>\n<p>Geni won&#8217;t be successful if all they can do is get people to add themselves and a couple of relatives and then rarely revisit the site. They want viral growth and the kind of big page view numbers that the large social networks see &#8211; up to 20 per day per visitor. To get there they&#8217;re adding a few proven features to the site. And by adding these features, they are essentially creating a social network with the family, as well as family friends, as the core. There&#8217;s a direct analogy to facebook &#8211; instead of colleges and universities, Geni is focusing on family units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genifounder David Sacks has said all along that he wants to create a single family tree for the whole world. Based on some usage stats the company will announce on Thursday, they&#8217;re moving towards that goal: over a million unique visitors in August (growth has been steady). And the biggest family tree at Geni now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}