geni family tree website - have you any experience of it?

[Liz from Lancs]

Some time ago, my nephew, as part of school project, put our family tree on the geni website.

They are offering a 2 week free trial and I would like to use it to check out matches. Anyone had any experience before I give them my card details?

Thanks.

[kylejustin]

he didnt need to pay to put the tree up? is it like ancestry? with credits or do you have a sub?

[Granny Lynne]

Liz

I had never heard of it so just had a look. Have a read of this before you decide

http://www.geni.com/discussions/99330

[Liz from Lancs]

kyle - I don't really know about the set up. My nephew is named as the manager of the tree and then he invites people to add to the tree, which I did, providing most of it. He wouldn't have paid anything and I suspect the school didn't.

If you google genie family tree, it will tell you about it. They have a cookie on my puter so can't give you a link without it revealing my name et. Think it is free.

[Liz from Lancs]

Lynne - interesting. I have put on a huge tree going back many generations.My nephew hasn't said it is a problem and I don't think he will be asked to upgrade. Wonder if it was done via the school. I don't like the format and can't recommend it. It is just that it brought up a lot of matches. Think I will forego it...

[Granny Lynne]

Liz

Having read a few more posts in the discussions, I don't think I will be bothering either. People are complaing about the charges and they seem to be mostly Americans.

[Liz from Lancs]

Thanks Lynne for taking the time to look into it more. It is time I got my courage up and transferred my GEDCOM.

[Elaine ..Spain]

Liz, if you are looking for somewhere to post your tree online, have you looked at Tribal Pages?
There is a free option so no need to pay if you don't want to. (I use the free version!)
You can make the tree private if you wish and senf invites to anyone who you wish to give access to.

http://tribalpages.com/

[Liz from Lancs]

Elaine - thanks for the link. Can you just upload your Family Tree Maker GEDCOM onto there?

Yes I can, just looked at website...

[Liz from Lancs]

Following a link on Tribal pages about family tree sites, they say this about geni.com:

Free for basic version

This social networking site's primary focus is connecting family, allowing you to easily create a family tree and invite other family members to join you. Each individual in the tree has a profile; family members can work together to build profiles for common ancestors. Other features include a Family Calender, an editable Family Timeline and a Family News feature which highlights new additions and upcoming events from sites within a user's Family Group. All of the basic functions are completely free, although they do offer a pro version with extra tools.

[Guy]

I would suggest that anyone wishing to post their family tree on the internet first use the free webspace supplied by their ISP.
Most ISPs provide at least some webspace free of charge.
The advantage of this is one has complete control of the website and may add or remove information at any time.

If one requires more webspace for family history there is unlimited free space on the rootsweb servers at

http://accounts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

The advantage of this is again one has complete control of the site, unlike many of the "free" sites.
Cheers
Guy

[clematised]

I am on TP too for the free tree space but so is a friend who has a large tree and she tried to export a gedcom file but it would not allow her to do this so she has had to type it all into Ancestry herself so be warned you can not export it from the free site and have to pay to do it.

Edna