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How-to: Define Your Family Group
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Did you know that your Family group determines whose stories you see in your Family News? Adding additional people to your Family group is a great way to stay in touch with them. Let's see how to easily view who is in your Family group and add the people you want.
View your Family group
You can view who is currently in your Family group by selecting the 'My Family' list view.
- Click the My Profile tab.
- Click the View List button.
- Select My Family from the drop down menu.
Add to your Family group
The easiest way to add someone to your Family group is from their profile.
- Use the 'Add to Family Group' button on claimed profiles to add them to your Family group.
- Use the 'Invite to Family group' button to send an invitation to someone outside of your default Family group.
- Use the 'Invite' box on an unclaimed profile to invite this person to Geni. Once they have accepted your invitation, you can then add them to your Family group if they are not in your default group.
Once you have added addition people to your Family group, you will start seeing their stories in your Family News. They will also see your stories, so go ahead and post your Latest News and add some of your Family's recent Events.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Can you only have one family group or maintain multiple family groups for different type of relatives? For example I might share things with immediate family that I would share with extended family, but still want to share something with everyone.
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Multiple Family Groups is a good idea. I would like birthday reminders from a small selected group, News from a larger group, an even larger group displayed on the map, and share photo albums with an even larger group again. One group size is too limited
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If a profile has been removed from the 'Family Group', why is it that to "add back" profiles are listed as "added" if they would be in the defined group anyway?
There should be an option to "remove" from both the "removed" and "added" group without putting the profile into the opposite group.
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There should be an option to "remove" from both the "removed" and "added" group without putting the profile into the opposite group.
I think someone referred to this as "restoring" the family group, which sounds like some kind of political rhetoric. Anyway, just an option to reset the family group to the default for the given level (e.g. 3rd cousins and closer).
FWIW, for me, there is a difference between my first cousins' children and my parents' first cousins--though both are "first cousins once removed." Does anyone else wish there were a way to distinguish between the "direction" (up or down) of the removal when defining the family group.
Posted 1 year ago # -
If we had multiple family groups then it would be much easier to tag photos/evens too.
It isn't too bad add 5-6 people to a family photo when it is the Bob Smith and family visits the Grand Canyon.
But for Christmas/weddings I have anywhere from 60-200 people. I am not going to even attempt our family reunion with 600 people when it take 2-4 clicks to add a person.
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I agree, there should be a difference in first cousins once removed.
If users would be able to move and set "family roles" in or out of a persons own "intimacy" rings. Each ring could be a group that then could be ex- or included in photos, map, notifications, news, etc.
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This is an excellent feature, and good points regarding circles of family groups. I like OD's "circles", however as others commented on this thread it would be better to customize a family group or have multiple family groups (in-laws, etc). For instance, I am very close with my first cousin once removed (actually call her aunt Judy since she's my moms cousin and her age), but not close at all with my first cousin once removed on my father's side.
Would there be a way to cross-breed a family group? I guess i'm imagining an easier way to invite someone (like a drag-and-drop from tree view), then when you dragged and dropped someone from an existing family group to a new one it would ask them if they wanted to also be a part of another family circle.
~ScotHibb
Posted 1 year ago # -
It is not possible to add the children from my ex-wife to my family group. Why is that? In fact, I can't add anyone to my familygroup. When they are already a member I can remobe them and those who aren't a member are impossible to add.
Can this be changed please?Posted 1 year ago # -
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@cha_kwaina: You should be able to add or invite any user on your tree to your Family group. If there is a person outside of your Family group that has not joined Geni you will not be able to add them until they join.
Posted 1 year ago # -
It feels as if this format will need a lot more tweaking before it fits the variety of complicated families out there. For instance, I can add my stepmother to my tree, and apparently could add half-siblings if I had any, but not my step-siblings (her children by her former husband), who are also part of my family.
Customizing family groups would make a lot of sense. Another useful feature would be a family home page, where all family members could check in to see the latest postings from all others, even if those postings dated back a long time. When news just shows up as a list of messages, mixed up with trivia like who has just joined your tree, it could be tough to find Cousin Sadie's message from 6 months ago about her new job or her kid's engagement.
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@Carla: You can certainly add your step-siblings to your tree and to your family group. Regarding the family home page, you may want to try using the Tree Discussion.
Posted 1 year ago # -
NOAH --- Once you invite someone to your family group -- how do you know whether they accepted or not? For regular invitation there is a history, what about for this?
Posted 1 year ago # -
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@kharacterk: In the future Family Invites should be part of the requests page that we are working on. Until then, there are a couple of ways to tell if someone is in your family group:
- When viewing the profile of someone in your family group, you will see a 'Remove from Family group' link on the bottom left of the bottom of the profile page.
- View your Family group list to see everyone in your family group.
Hope this helps.
Posted 1 year ago # -
NOAH : A F/U question: if someone was invited but has not responded, does that "Invite..." choice still show up in his profile? If not, one cannot distinguish between declined and not yet responded.
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Great questions. When you invite someone to your Family group, the Invite button goes away. This does not change if and when the person declines your invitation. You are correct, there is no way to tell if someone declines your invitation. I am sure some users actually prefer it that way.
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I just received an invitation to join someone's family group. I didn't recognize the name, and until this morning couldn't search outside my tree. So this morning, I searched my forest and found people in my forest with the same surname, but not this guy specifically. Anyway...
(a) When I get invited to someone's family group, I should be able to see some information about him - more than the general public could see. I clicked on this guy's profile, but his public profile gave me no info.
(b) Since I was pretty sure he's not connected to me at all, I tried searching all of Geni to see if I could invite someone not connected to me to join my family group, and... it would let me! What kind of sense does that make? If the person's not connected to me, then I should invite them to be a friend, or maybe a "visitor" of my tree, but not something so close as part of my family group.
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@JimMendola: I like your suggestion. It makes sense to me that if someone invites you to join their family group, you should be able to see the Family view of their profile until you act on the invitation, or maybe for at least a week or so.
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Noah --- When someone (in one's tree) is removed from the Family Grooup it appears the only impact is they will not see the Family News (but those news are actually part of comments in guestbooks, photos, etc which are still visible). They still have access to all profiles, photos. Is there any way to block the view of albums? It cannot be done with the overall settings since those options of for whole groups (tree, etc).
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@kharacterk: In Settings->Profile Privacy you can control what your 'Family' can see. We have also discussed introducing album level privacy. Album A can be seen by Family but not Friends, Album B can be seen by Friends but not Family, etc.
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