So that's the end of geni.com as far as I'm concerned!
by hazel from LinuxQuestions.org on (#56DKR)
I used to do quite a bit of genealogical work there although it's quite a complex site and I never really learned to navigate it. But I put my family tree up there and I occasionally get emails from people who have found it and are interested in the wider reaches of the family.
A couple of years ago, the site was taken over by a commercial company called MyHeritage. They are located in Israel, I believe. They have tried consistently to get geni.com users to sign up to their paid-for version, but I never wanted to. Until now though, I have been able to bypass their pestering popups.
Not any more. Yesterday I received some fascinating information by email from a man who is researching the Jewish families of Cracow and wanted my help. He sent me what he had already amassed about my family (a lot of which I knew already but there are some extra goodies) and I sent him in return some family photographs for his collection.
Today I decided to log in to geni.com and add the extra material to my family tree. But I could not get to it. Every attempt led to a MyHeritage application form with no exit except an Accept button. You have to sign up to an annual subscription to MyHeritage to get any further. Admittedly, this is on a one-month free trial and you are supposed to be able to cancel at any time during this month, but I don't trust them and I am not playing that game. The extra material will go into my local family database on Gramps and I will no longer bother with the online version.
A couple of years ago, the site was taken over by a commercial company called MyHeritage. They are located in Israel, I believe. They have tried consistently to get geni.com users to sign up to their paid-for version, but I never wanted to. Until now though, I have been able to bypass their pestering popups.
Not any more. Yesterday I received some fascinating information by email from a man who is researching the Jewish families of Cracow and wanted my help. He sent me what he had already amassed about my family (a lot of which I knew already but there are some extra goodies) and I sent him in return some family photographs for his collection.
Today I decided to log in to geni.com and add the extra material to my family tree. But I could not get to it. Every attempt led to a MyHeritage application form with no exit except an Accept button. You have to sign up to an annual subscription to MyHeritage to get any further. Admittedly, this is on a one-month free trial and you are supposed to be able to cancel at any time during this month, but I don't trust them and I am not playing that game. The extra material will go into my local family database on Gramps and I will no longer bother with the online version.