Online Family Trees with Geni

I had heard stories recently about a company - Geni - that had rocketed from not existing to being worth $100 million in 6 weeks!  It's an online family-tree creator that seems to have hit the right mix of ease-of-use, functionality and viral community building.  Some users reported seeing their family trees grow from 5 people to 500 people in a scant few weeks!

So I had to try it out.  I created the base level of both my and Jean's family tree -- although I still need to add my German cousins to the list -- and came out with 25 people in my initial post.  It's really easy to use, these 25 people only took about 10 minutes to put in this morning, and if you include their email address, you can invite them to include more information about their family (and their spouse's) as well.

Each person that you put into your tree is identified by either a blue (male) or pink (female) box with their name in it.  Each box has an arrow above, below and to the side of it for you to click and choose to add parents, brothers, sisters, husband, wife, son or daughter.

Anyway, I've set up the initial tree, and will update this post with how my numbers are growing if there is significant activity. You can visit the Geni blog for more information on new features and services of this geneology tool.

Let me know how you like it!