{"id":179,"date":"2008-07-29T19:57:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-07-29T19:57:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T01:57:02","slug":"genicom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/2008\/07\/29\/genicom\/","title":{"rendered":"Geni.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  I&#8217;m disappointed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geni.com\">Geni.com<\/a>.  They have all the makings of a neat, Web 2.0 company that just happens to focus on genealogy.   <\/p>\n<p>  But I can&#8217;t get behind it.  I realize it&#8217;s in beta, but there is one small thing that irks me and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a deal breaker.   As I have played around extensively with genealogy software like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacyfamilytree.com\">Legacy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piotter.org\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpgedview.net\">PHPGedView<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piotter.info\">here<\/a>, I&#8217;ve tried and test drove most genealogy software out there.<\/p>\n<p>  The one and only thing that has me not investing more time\/effort into Geni is the fact that when you add women it does nothing about maiden names.  It assumes whomever you add them off is their name.  I for one recognize women by their maiden names and don&#8217;t appreciate typing\/ retyping in every maiden name because of a software shortfall.  <\/p>\n<p>  Geni is promising.  But I&#8217;m waiting for them to work out all their beta features.  Maybe then I dip my toes back in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m disappointed in Geni.com. They have all the makings of a neat, Web 2.0 company that just happens to focus on genealogy. But I can&#8217;t get behind it. I realize it&#8217;s in beta, but there is one small thing that irks me and I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s a deal breaker. As I have played around extensively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,3,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-mywebsites","category-rest-of-site","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelpiotter.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}