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The core social network for most people are your own immediate family and if you are looking for ways to further your understanding of your heritage at the same time as involving your family members in an exciting journey you may want to check out Geni.com.

Geni is a free on-line application that makes it very easy for you to construct your family tree. You can add information such as email address and even photos for each person in your family tree. Once you have a foundation start inviting your family members to review it and have them help you building it.

Depending on how much information you add you can view your tree in a traditional node-structure but you will also have the option of viewing timelines showing significant events in your family history (births, deaths, weddings, etc).

Trees that are connected to your main tree (through marriage, etc) are part of what is named ‘the forest’ and if you or your family members put some effort into the construction this could prove to be a very valuable and entertaining way to learn about your extended family - and who knows, maybe even re-connect people that lost contact years ago.

The site also features a discussion tool page that can be used to discuss family information or even to plan for future family events.

Privacy is taken seriously and only individuals you identify as members of your family can view the family tree you are building.

This is one site I am personally very excited about coming across and I can see myself spending quite some time on it and inviting core family members to add their pieces to the puzzle that makes up your family tree.

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