Barcelona, Spain PRWEBNovember 17, 2008 — Family networking site, www.Genoom.com, makes social networking a truly global affair with support for 17 languages, including the latest addition of traditional and simplified Chinese. The social network caters to families interested in staying in touch with relatives near and far, sharing family trees and genealogical research, and more in a private and secure online environment.
Genoom.com is a free family networking tool connecting family members from around the world. Members can add family trees, personal information, photos, videos, and related documents about ancestors and living relatives alike, limiting access to uploaded information through invitations and custom group privacy settings. Genoom even offers a Facebook application, allowing users to access their family tree and communicate with family, all while logged into their Facebook account.
My Heritage the online collaborative family tree building site has introduced a new feature that many people will love called photo tagging.
It allows you to take all the photos you have uploaded into your online family tree and identify the faces and tag them with names. This new feature will really benefit you by not having to tag each and every face in a photo as well as doing automatic grouping and in the case of any older photos you may have, it may identify faces that you are not quite sure of if you have identified them in another photo.
It appears they are using face recognition software which is a very advanced technology not previously available to you and I in the past. I can see many people using this just to upload old photos in their family trees just to try to identify those people in group shots.
I am really excited they have offered this new technology and cant wait to see how many people that I couldn’t previously identify now have a name!
I dont know if you would call it a competition per se’ but there is an ongoing public opinion debate going on about the the indexing projects being done by Ancestry.com and the World Archives Project.
Ancestry.com, started in 1996 is a membership site providing online records for a cost varying on the database you wish to access and the World Archives Project is a volunteer driven site free to the public. While some of the records are in common to both sites, not ALL are.
Either side of the debate you fall on I am of the opinion that BOTH services have there place in genealogy research and we are living in a fortunate time where we have the choice and the ability to research online using their wonderful services.
Current Promotion
World Vital Records has just launched a new promotion on our site. They are including a free one year magazine subscription when a user signs up for a one year WorldVitalRecords.com Unlimited membership. They get both the magazine and the subscription for $99! It is one of the best offers they have ever done on the site. You will be able to choose one of three free magazines including Internet Genealogy, Discovering Family History, and Family Chronicle Magazine. The promotion is set to expire in a few days. But they may choose to extend the offer through the end of the month.
If you are anything like me I like to have these magazines to reference at times when I am not using my computer and I LOVE to save money in the process. This is a great value.
I have to say… I just was blown OUT OF THE WATER, by Geni.com
I will stand by my opinions expressed but want to clarify and correct. Within only a few moments of posted I was contacted by Keith at geni.com to make some clarifications on the program and I have to say I am incredibly impressed with them responding to a “blog post” so quickly. Heavens sake, you seldom get this kind of a response from a customer support desk!
You can see Keith’s response attached to my previous post.
