Geni.com
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Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012. , MyHeritage has kept its genealogical website separate from Geni's website, though users can still match Geni profiles to trees on MyHeritage and to other family tree sites and digitized records.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Geni
- Website.logo
- Geni Logo.svg
- Website.company_type
- Privately held company
- Website.founder
- David O. SacksAlan BravermanAmos Elliston
- Website.location
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Website.president
- Gilad Japhet
- Website.GM
- Michael Alan Stangel (USA)
- Website.industry
- Genealogy, Social networking services
- Website.parent
- MyHeritage
- Website.caption
- everyone's related
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online database
- Official name
- Geni
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- David Sacks
- Headquarters
- California
- Owned by
- MyHeritage
- Parent organization
- MyHeritage
- Main subject
- genealogy
- Location
- California
- Official website
- www.geni.com
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- inception
- 2006-06-00
- number of registered users/contributors
- 11000000
- language of work or name
- multiple languages
- official blog URL
- blog.geni.com
- Alexa rank
- 12147
- social media followers
- 12154
- Commons category
- Geni.com
- collection or exhibition size
- 180250873
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Features
- Discussion forums and projects
- Importing and exporting
- DNA information
- Automated consistency checking
- Reception
- References
- External links
Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012. , MyHeritage has kept its genealogical website separate from Geni's website, though users can still match Geni profiles to trees on MyHeritage and to other family tree sites and digitized records.
The New York Times groups it with FamilyLink.com and Ancestry.com, "a vast and growing trove of digitized records". , over 200 million profiles had been created on Geni.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geni.com” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.