geni_logo.jpgBrief background in case you are not familiar with genealogy site, Geni.com. It’s a social networking site geared for creating your family tree online. It’s a collaborative in a way since; members of your family tree can create their own family tree and connect it to your own family tree as well. If you enter your family members’ email address, Geni sends those updates about your family tree.

Geni.com is a pretty much powerful social networking sites in terms of building family scrapbooks and trees of your family life. Just recently Geni has introduced new features which let you monitor the going-ons in the life of your family members through Geni Timelines. This timeline is a new feature of the Geni profile section that shows a virtual history of the events in a person’s life.geni_family_news.jpgThe Geni Timelines will help you complete the timelines of your other family members as well. It gets updated every time an attendee is added to an event. There are placeholders for photos in the Geni timeline. So, in a nutshell, the Timeline is your ticket to establishing your own digital family scrapbooks.

Additionally, to supplement the Geni Timeline, Family News was also activated. It provides a single page whereby family members can track everything going on in their family including additions to their family trees and timelines, birthdays, photos, discussions, comments and more.

Hopefully this new features helps Geni get some considerable increase in its membership base. Geni deserves a good look from all of us. It’s among the good social genealogy sites equipped with rich powerful features for all of us to enjoy using.