If you fall into the majority, you’ve embraced the web to connect with friends. And with colleagues. However, our latest fascination is how to use the web to connect with family…
   

Think of Geni.com as Old-Fashioned Family Tree… Meets Facebook…

Frankly, the idea of laboring with a pencil and dusty archives to construct a family tree seemed a task best relegated to some other relative (one with extra time on his or her hands). However, in the modern web incarnation of Geni.com, the family tree becomes the structure for building a family-specific network– and like other social networks, it grows and develops as one new branch begets another.

 
   
Use it for family communications… or for forging connections with relatives you don’t even know…

If you know how a Facebook or LinkedIn works, you can imagine how Geni offers an easy, streamlined way to share photos, plan family events, remember key dates, and communicate with core family. However, there is also a genuine genealogy aspect that is captivating. Some of our favorite features: watch how your tree turns into a forest, and map out where in the world all your relatives happen to be.
 

A site to bridge generations…

This could be the web destination that gets your own parents to go “web 2.0” — just as you can involve your kids in something online that’s fun and educational (we sense school projects in the making).

What Geni does not address: what to do with those inevitable relatives with whom you are best remaining out-of-touch…

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