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Come Check Out What’s New at GeneTree!

Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Colleen  |  No Comments »

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Your Own Personalized Home Page
After logging in to your account, you will be sent to your new personalized homepage. The home page consists of a newsfeed that will track what you and the people in your network have been doing at GeneTree. It will post on your newsfeed when someone has added photos or videos, posted a message, or made a change to their profile.

On the right of your homepage you will see a column with quick action links. This allows you to go anywhere you need on the site easily from your homepage. In this column you can also invite your family and search for your friends on GeneTree. Sign in today to see your personalized homepage.

Updated Media Tools
You are going to LOVE the updated Media section! We have updated the format so that it is more user and viewer friendly. Sharing your photos and videos has never been easier! You can also add descriptions and tags to share the details of your precious moments with your family and friends. Don’t forget, you can also visit your family and friends’ media rooms to comment on their photos and videos. Log in and start uploading your photos and videos.

Fabulous Forum
Do you have questions about different aspects of family networking, DNA testing, or just genealogy in general? Or do you have wisdom to share with others on one of these topics? We need your questions, comments, and knowledge to be shared on the new and improved forum. Visit the forum today to start sharing your comments.

Don’t Forget! Birthday Reminders
The GeneTree system will automatically send you an email reminding you of the birthdays of all your family members that you have added into the Family Tree Builder. This makes it easy to remember even extended relatives birthdays. So make it easier on yourself, upload your entire family to your GeneTree family tree, then leave the remembering to us. We will give you a heads up when the time comes. Click here to start adding family and their birthdays.

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Visit www.genetree.com today to see the changes and use the new capabilities.

GeneTree Family History-Sharing Networking Web Site Selected for 2008’s ‘Best Family History Web Sites’ by Family Tree Magazine

Posted on July 16th, 2008 by Colleen  |  No Comments »

Popular Genealogy Magazine Names DNA-Based Family Networking Site to List of 101 Best Family History Web Sites. Genetic-Genealogy Tools Provided by GeneTree Represent New Option for Ancestry Exploration and Unique Way to Discover and Connect with Family Members Around the World

genealogy awardSALT LAKE CITY, Jul 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — GeneTree.com has been named by Family Tree Magazine to its annual list of the 101 best family history Web sites in its Sept. 2008 issue. GeneTree is unique because it combines powerful social networking and digital media technologies with the world’s most comprehensive genetic genealogy database created by the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation. With these resources, GeneTree helps individuals further understand their place within the human family.
Family Tree Magazine is the largest-circulation genealogy magazine in the United States and is written for a flourishing consumer audience. Ancestry research is booming today and much of it is taking place on an estimated 300,000 genealogy Web sites.
“We are thrilled that Family Tree Magazine has recognized GeneTree as one of the best family history Web sites of the year,” said Matt Cupal, GeneTree COO. “GeneTree truly provides a new frontier in family history research using technologies and resources that no other organization can. Looking forward, we plan to continue our standard of innovation in providing our users a unique and powerful way to connect with their family members from the past and present.”
On GeneTree.com, users can connect with family and friends and preserve their family histories using rich media and social networking technologies. Participants collaborate on assembling detailed family histories with powerful, easy-to-use software for building family trees and by sharing digital media and memories. “Thank you for providing such a useful resource for the readers of Family Tree Magazine,” said the magazine’s Managing Editor Diane Haddad in her congratulatory letter to GeneTree.
GeneTree takes family history research to the next level, by allowing users to have their DNA tested and then mapping those results with the Web site’s worldwide genetic genealogy collection. Through this technology, even novice genealogists can discover portions of their deep ancestral histories that predate written records. Those who elect to have genetic analysis done may choose from several types of DNA tests.
The GeneTree.com online pressroom is located at www.genetree.com/help/pressroom.html, and provides high-resolution images, FAQs, backgrounder and product brochure.
About GeneTree
GeneTree (genetree.com) is a DNA-enabled family history-sharing networking Web site designed to help people understand where their personal histories belong within the greater human genetic story. GeneTree creates opportunities for unlocking human genetic heritage, discovering ancestors, connecting and collaborating with living relatives, and sharing rich media to help discover, document and preserve family histories. GeneTree was developed by the Sorenson family of companies and draws on the expertise of the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a nonprofit organization that developed the world’s foremost collection of genetic-genealogy information; and Sorenson Media, which created the world’s leading digital video compression software.

Nightline-The Secrets in Your DNA

Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Colleen  |  1 Comment »

Tracing Lineage With DNA
Genetic Testing Helps People Discover Ancestry, Dispels Notions of Genetic Purity

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By MARTIN BASHIR
Dec. 4, 2007 —

“Where are you from?”

It’s one of the first questions we ask one another. But even though national identity has been used to divide people for generations, nationalities may be more closely connected than we ever imagined. Genetic science is beginning to create a new understanding of human ancestry.

Scott Woodward, chief scientific officer of Sorenson Genomics in Salt Lake City, is now giving people the chance to trace their lineage by using their DNA.

Formerly specializing in paternity testing, Sorenson spent $40 million building the largest DNA database in the country. Over the last seven years, it’s collected 100,000 samples of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, considered the purest form of genetic inheritance because it barely changes through the generations.

New samples are continually being added to the database, which was conceived by 86-year-old entrepreneur James LeVoy Sorenson. He doesn’t give interviews, but “Nightline” spoke with his son James Lee who is in charge of the company.

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