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New Feature: Family Address Book
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The new family address book gathers all of your family's contact information into one handy list: email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses. Use the last name index to jump directly to relatives with last names that start with a specific letter.
There are two ways to add more data to your address book. Use the quick edit link in the actions column to quickly add details to one person. If you'd like to quickly add details to more than one person use the add information tab at the top of the list. This puts the list into edit more. Once you are done adding information to that page, use the save changes at the bottom of the list. The best part is your whole family will benefit from the information you've added. Pretty soon your family will have a shared address book!
If there is someone on Geni that is not included on this list, just go to their profile and use the add to family group button. This will add them to your family group and to your address book.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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That quick-edit idea is great for a web address book! Better than Gmail contacts.
Is there a quick-way to not have (long) dead people show up by the hundreds? I realize they have no real Death Dates, but there's just too many...
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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@jimHere can you check those profiles and make sure they're marked deceased?
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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I guess there's some of that "if they're over 125 years old, the should be dead". But many are in-law cousins that would be in my grandmother's generation. Since I don't really know their alive-status, I'm reluctant to dead-mark them...
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
This kind of relates to something strange I've noticed with family groups. Long ago, I set my family group to second cousins, since I've never met a third cousin in my life. I actually did find a fourth cousin online and invited them to Geni but I haven't spoken to them since. In any event, this also removes your great great grandfather and associated people from your family group as well... which seems a bit odd.
So here's the problem.
If you want your statistics page to be more meaningful and include people you might be interested in, you have to set your family group large (e.g. when I changed back to 4th cousins, I noticed my great great grandfather had the longest life span of anyone in the family).
However, when you set your family group large, your address book has page after page of people you either don't care about or just don't have information on (probably because you don't care about them).
I'm not entirely sure what the solution for this is... perhaps, each individual page should have controls. For example, the address book could have a filter setting on it where you can filter from fourth cousins down to immediate family, etc. The same could go for statistics.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Great Addition !
Would like to Chime in what Matt had said on having filters in the address book page. Maybe the same filters like the one in the list page would do.Again can we export these contact info to excel ? Would be very helpful particularly in Indian families where we invite all our relatives (known and unknown) for the smallest of celebrations.. Picking out these contacts and sending invites (email /phone /snail mail) would be amazing to have...
Maybe something for a future update at least pls ?
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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Like in all Family Group lists: Could you add an option to exclude extended family group members, i.e. people you have invited to your family group manually to give them as none-Pro members access to your your profiles?
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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I second the suggestion of @brox. We need an option to remove invited Family Group members from this, Family News, etc.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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