| 词条 | Geni.com |
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| name =Geni | logo =GeniLogo.png | company_type =Privately held company | foundation={{start date and age|2006|06}} | founder = David O. Sacks Alan Braverman Amos Elliston | location =Los Angeles, California, USA | president =Gilad Japhet | GM = Michael Stangel (USA) | industry=Genealogy, Social networking services | parent = MyHeritage | caption = everyone's related | homepage={{URL|www.geni.com}} | alexa = {{Decrease}} 8,175 ({{as of|2016|10|26|alt=October 2016}})[1] }}Geni is a commercial genealogy and social networking website, owned by Israeli private company MyHeritage. Launched on January 16, 2007, the Web 2.0 company stated that it aimed to create a family tree of the world.[2][3] While profiles of currently living family members are private,[4] Geni’s mission is to create a shared family tree of common ancestors. By combining research into a single tree that users work on together, users can focus on verifying information and on new avenues of research, rather than spending time duplicating research that others have already done. Over 115 million profiles were created on Geni by over 11 million users, mostly adults over 49 years of age, as of August 2017.{{cn|date=July 2018}} In November 2012, Geni was acquired by MyHeritage.[5] Since 2016, MyHeritage has kept its genealogical website separate from Geni's website.[6] InvestorsThe Founders Fund, a private venture capital firm, invested "more than $1 million”.[7]Charles River Ventures, a private venture capital firm, has also invested US$10 million.[8]Revenue modelBasic (free) members can build a tree, offering an unlimited number of profiles, basic support, merging of trees (linking of duplicates), and uploading up to 1GB of media.[5][9] The Pro subscription removes the media upload restrictions and adds premium support, enhanced searching, and tree matching, which identifies duplicate trees that could be merged.[9] FeaturesAt the website users enter names and email addresses of their parents, siblings, and other relatives, as well as profiles with various fields of biographical information about themselves and their relatives. From there users may graphically manipulate sections of their connections network to create a complete personal family tree.[7] The service uses the contact information to invite additional members to join, and builds a comprehensive social network database from the information collectively entered by members. For now users may only see information belonging to themselves and to people in their immediate network who have given them permission.[10] Family Tree AwardsMembers of each family are ranked by the number of contributions they make to the family tree and are given awards within the family tree itself. Contributions categories include Number of Profiles Added, Number of Invitations Made, Photos Uploaded, Videos Uploaded etc. The top 13 people in each category receive awards. This feature urges users to generate more contact and to compete with each other. Discussion forums and projectsEach family tree features a family discussion forum where messages can be posted and responses made. It can be used as such a digest for family news. There are also public discussions, profile specific discussions, and project discussions. Projects are special interest groups organized around historical topics (e.g. "World War One - Casualties"), immigration patterns (e.g. "Norwegian American"), occupations (e.g. "Librarians"), place-names (e.g. "Christ Church College, Oxford University"), or any other subject of general interest that will foster social discussion among members, as well as providing a portal to which biographical profiles may be linked. NotificationsEach person who has linked to their family tree via their email address can elect to be notified about various activities on the tree, such as when new people are added, if any pictures are uploaded, when someone posts a message on the discussion forum, or someone has a birthday etc. Notification frequency options include none, instant, daily and weekly. ExportA family tree can be exported from Geni as a GEDCOM file, for example all blood relatives of a specific person, which can be imported into another genealogical software. Geni export has some limitations related to subscription status and to a count of added profiles. ImportGeni had a builtin feature that allowed users to import their family history using the GEDCOM file format, from 2008[11] until December 2010. This facility was disabled for eight years since Geni found it was duplicating thousands of existing profiles, often with poor information quality as compared to the existing profiles. A new GEDCOM file import feature is available since February 2019, that allows the import of profiles which didn’t exist before on Geni. Only a few generations of a tree are imported at a time, continuing only on branches where there are no matches to existing profiles on Geni.[12] Data from public records and family trees can also be imported from 13 supported web sites using the semi-automatic tool SmartCopy, which is based on web scraping. Families are imported one at a time, and the user can manually edit or verify the information before importing, and choose between adding the information to existing profiles or to new profiles. SmartCopy includes a consistency check feature that warns when data is unreasonable. The user must ask for full access to the tool. SmartCopy is a third-party open source web browser extension that has been available since 2015.[13] Merging TreesAround August 2008, Geni facilitated the ability for paying customers to merge family trees where they overlapped via common ancestors or living relatives. Individual privacy is maintained by settings that allow tree members beyond a selectable distance of relationship to only see limited information about a person such as their name and relationship to them. Detecting matchesA built-in Geni match detection feature shows duplicate profiles (profiles that are matching other Geni profiles), and indicates these with blue color. Paying customers may see the details of the matches, and decide to merge these profiles. However, the Geni builtin match detection requires several close relatives with similar names or dates, but allows vague resemblance, resulting both in many missed matches and in a large number of false matches. The free 3rd party web application ImproveYourTree.com finds Geni duplicate profiles that the Geni built-in matching algorithm would fail to detect, with much lower number of false matches. It also compiles a list of unreasonable information and of missing information in a Geni tree, as a quality control.[14][15] SmartMatches is a cooperation between many genealogical databases. The SmartMatches algorithm may find Geni profiles that resemble both online public records (indicated with orange color), and profiles in private family trees (green). The SmartMatches information may be copied manually, or imported to Geni using the above mentioned SmartCopy tool. To copy SmartMatches from Myheritage trees to Geni, both a Myheritage Data subscription and a Geni subscription are required.[16] DNA informationLists can be compiled of profiles that are expected to have the same haplogroup as a specific profile, since they are related on a strict male line or female line. Genealogical DNA test results (autosomal tests, YDNA tests and MtDNA tests) can be imported from various test sites. The haplogroup of the test person is indicated and propagated in the family tree to all profiles that are expected to share it. Lists of tested people matching the DNA are presented. World Family TreeThe rate at which these extended trees grow tends to increase as the trees become larger. Some extended trees or "forests" have snowballed. One in particular has become significantly larger than any other.
The large tree is colloquially referred to by many Geni genealogists monitoring this phenomenon as "The Big Tree" or the "World Family Tree".[18] Genealogists can "walk the tree" from one end to the other, or "up" toward the past and then back "down" to the present on another line. Within this tree, people are either connected by "bloodlines" or through marriage. Bloodlines (which can include adoptions and illegitimacy, either acknowledged or unacknowledged) are represented by names in blue; marriage connections are represented by names having a new colour for each marriage. "Straight blue line" relationships are those that have a high likelihood of shared DNA, although DNA connections cannot be proven by genealogy, only by DNA tests. In 2017 scientists used 86 million publicly available profiles from Geni (of which 13 million were part of one single family tree) to study the structure of historical populations - mostly from Western Europe and the United States.[20][21] Popular ProfilesGeni features a section in which one can view the top profiles on the website. The top profiles include U.S. presidents, athletes, and other famous people such as inventors or historians. Examples: George Washington, Babe Ruth, Thomas Edison, and Benjamin Franklin. Geni users can find out if and how they are related to such persons via their existing connections in the World Family Tree. There are also "portals" at Geni which feature notable individuals grouped by profession, life events, location, and so forth—and in these portals, "notability" in Geni consists of a link to the person's biography at English Wikipedia. An example of this is Geni's Jewish Celebrity Birthday Calendar, a project which "includes people with a Wikipedia page or an entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia or Jewish Women's Archive." 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