Last week we had visitors from India who were second cousins of my wife; Kalpana and Dr. Adinarayana Sastry. Dr. Sastry is a surgical Gastroentologist working in NIMS Hyderabad. Dr. Sastry received an FRCS award at Hunter Hall, University of Glasgow in recognition of his work in the field of GI.
Dr. Sastry is very interested in Genealogy and is the one who has introduced me to Geni. I have started to populate the family tree on both my father and mother's side. I intend to extend the tree as far as I can with the help of other family members to know where our families stood a few generations back.
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Dear Rama,
Just a thought - I think you should tell Dr. Sastry about myheritage.com which is more powerful and is really effective in terms of providing connections to families across the world.
There's a host of features which it has but rather than shamelessly marketing, I'd like you to check out face-recognition, celebritylook like to name a features.
Please take a look whenever you have time and also tell Dr. Sastry to visit www.myheritage.com and let us know what you think !
Mr. Sharma,
Thank you for your suggestion. I passed on your suggestion to Dr. Sastry.
myheritage.com seems to have added a lot of features since I saw last - may be three years back when it was only a desktop version. One disadvantage I find is that the free web tree in myheritage (which identally was not there in the earlier version) can only have 1000 people in it. I am not sure whether I am ready to pay for the rest 4344 profiles. (right now my geni forest has 5344 profiles sharing their genealogy information). I am also not sure whether I would be able to convince all of them to switch over. As a matter of fact I have personally added only 468 profiles, who over a period of one year populated themselves to a staggering 5344 now and are growing every day showing the popularity of the site.
Still, as an experiment, I transferred my .gedcom file to myheritage.com and found it to be a great site and found useful tools to sort and filter which geni lacks at the moment. Unfortunately the pictures did not get transferred. So I could not use their unique matching feature. In any case, I also saw that their fancy photo matching feature is only available to Gold and Platinum accounts!
Interestingly, when I mentioned about this feature to one of my friends he was emphatic in never using this facility becuse it might end up showing inadvertent physical similarities and associations between people, planting seeds of suspicion in to some of the parentages and in general extracting the hidden skeletons from family cupboards!
So I decided to use myheritage on my desktop only for its filter and research tools when I have time and when I feel the need but continue to recommend geni for the family network.
Dear Rama
Thanks for inviting Dr. Sastry's to the conversation!
Dr. Sastry - your thoughts are very powerful and definitely helpful for us in terms of feedback.
Some thoughts from us:
- At MyHeritage you only pay if your tree has more than 1000 users, but you can have as many people in the tree as you want to.
- Dr. Sastry, all photo features are available to everybody at the moment (not only subscribers)
- Dr. Sastry we'd also like to offer you help with importing the photos. I'd put you through one of my team-members who would help you in fixing this issue.
- Finally, something for the family network: MyHeritage family site works as a great hub in your family network
Thank you once again Rama and Dr. Sastry. Please keep the feedback coming !
Very very Interesting to come across another maganti family on the internet...it's like kind of a nostalgia...
By the way we are from machilipatnam, Krishna district and my parents Sri MVSR Sarma and Smt Prasuna live in Gandhinagar, Hyderabad..
Regards
Vamsi M Maganti
www.maganti.org
I have recently discovered Geni. I had used myHeritage a couple of years ago and I found it completelty inconvenient that you could only edit the tree with an installed desktop application instead of on the website. Now it seems that you can do it online but only by starting a new tree from scratch.
Also, as I invite family members, on Geni we collaborate to grow teh same tree. In myHeritage it seems that each one is creating their own tree. I don't undertand myHeritage, I find it very confusing compared to Geni. Is there a basic explanation anywhere on how collaboration works there?
Finally, one major advantage I found in Geni. I can add people to it from facebook, this will pull their facebook data such as pictures and dates. Also it makes it more appealinig to come back since you get news on your facebook feed.
Regards,
Julio Aprea
I have recently discovered Geni. I had used myHeritage a couple of years ago and I found it completelty inconvenient that you could only edit the tree with an installed desktop application instead of on the website. Now it seems that you can do it online but only by starting a new tree from scratch.
Also, as I invite family members, on Geni we collaborate to grow teh same tree. In myHeritage it seems that each one is creating their own tree. I don't undertand myHeritage, I find it very confusing compared to Geni. Is there a basic explanation anywhere on how collaboration works there?
Finally, one major advantage I found in Geni. I can add people to it from facebook, this will pull their facebook data such as pictures and dates. Also it makes it more appealinig to come back since you get news on your facebook feed.
Regards,
Julio Aprea
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