Free Genealogy Site Helps Users Trace Roots, Rich Relatives

Free Genealogy Site Helps Users Trace Roots, Rich Relatives

Determining whether your heritage involves royalty or witches or Kevin Bacon normally demands some level of interest/involvement. Put the ancestral grunt-work on your family with Geni.

Geni is a preposterously free and simple way to create an online family tree: fill in your personal junk, add a branch or two with known relatives, and enter in their email addresses. This'll trigger the service to invite said kin, beginning the domino effect of a "How You're Connected" network expansion, resulting in such discoveries as:

* Your great-great uncle is an ailing baking soda magnate with no known heir, or one other potential heir who's deathly allergic to bees
* Your third cousins are hot, and so are your first cousins who live in West Virginia
* You're predisposed to infertility -- or so you'll tell the girl in your bed holding a sealed condom
* You are deceased

Though Geni also offers Facebook-y functionality (messaging, photos, calendar, etc), outreach/access is limited to connected family members, saving you from the hexes of newt-boiling strangers, and a lonely Kevin Bacon.

Sign up for a family tree at Geni.com

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