Family trees

Geni and Myheritage are are useful tools for putting together a family tree. I found that Geni is a bit more user-friendly when it comes to adding and changing details quickly. I like that both sites account for modern-day families by allowing you to add your Great Aunt's lesbian life partner and your Dad's kids from his fourth marriage, or whatever. Myheritage is not quite as smooth as Geni, and it has lots of bits that look like ads and other trivial celebrity stuff, such as finding out that you look 20% like Christina Aguilera or something. Which may or may not appeal to some people.

I have met many library patrons who enjoy tracing their family history and I would recommend Geni to them. It seems pretty straightforward, even for most technophobes. The Web 2.0-ness of it is great for sharing and getting others to add details and photos of their own. (You have to be suspicious of those family trees that just go straight down, like those people who came from pods in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. LOL). Please check out my tree to the left there, my name is Spawn 2.