I am addicted to a newish Web 2.0 genealogy site www.geni.com.  I have never been all that interested in genealogy, but this site takes all the best things about facebook and carries it over to my family.  I started a family tree and invited some of my family members to help out and now I have like over 240 family members in my tree.  It is sooo cool.

Lately though I have had a very chilling thought.  Does the fact that I currently like Geni more than Facebook, does that mean that I am officially old.  I am more interested in my family than my friends… It must be over for me.

I am excited about Geni because 1) it will help me remember all my wife’s cousins, cousin’s spouses and offspring, and 2) it is a great resource to teach my kiddos about their family.

I think everyone has great aunts and uncles and 2nd cousins and so on that they are confused as to how exactly they are related.  Now there is Geni.  It gives you a great, super easy to use interface to enter in everyone you are related to.  When you put those relatives in, you can enter their email which invites them to be a part of the fun.  Those relatives then put in all their relatives, and then those relatives put in all their relatives and before you know it, you have an extremely enormous family tree.  It is so cool.

I am on it constantly waiting to see the newest additions to the tree, and updates to the profiles.  I love it!!!

You really ought to start your family tree.  You will be amazed at how fast it grows and you will feel connected to your family.