Genoom Blog

This week we´re launching a new improvement and taking hiding branches once step further to avoid your family network from being too extensive with branches that you don´t have any relationship with (or little interest).

Therefore, from now on, all the branches of your non-blood relatives will be closed by default except for your current partner.

However, you can configure your family network and specify the branches of your non-blood relatives you would like to open or close. In other words, you have control of which non-blood relatives you would like visible in your network.

If your family tree has extended branches of your non-bloodrelated family with whom you don´t have any relation (or little interest), you can now configure your family tree to hide branches. Simply click on “close branch” on a non-bloodrelated member´s profile and that section of the tree will be hidden. You can just as easily “open branch” as well.

Closing a branch also means that you will no longer see the activity of the members of that branch in the activity feed of your network.

Have you ever wondered what a royal family tree looks like? We were curious ourselves and have constructed the family tree of the royal family of Spain.

Starting from the point of view of Prince Felipe, you can see his parents, Juan Carlos I de Borbón and Sofia De Grecia, including all family members up to Felipe V de Borbón ( Dec 19, 1683 - July 9, 1746). That´s 11 generations of royal history!

Did you know the royal family of Spain is also connected to the royal family of Britain - can you find the connection?

This week we´re happy to release a big improvement to the message center in Genoom to make communication with your family a whole lot better. Most notably, this includes:

• Organized message threads: Follow the sequence of conversations you´ve had with another person (or multiple people) in a single, coherent message thread
• Bulk action feature: This allows you to make bulk actions (delete, mark as read, mark as unread) to your messages ever so much easier
• New layout: The display format of your Inbox and Sent items has been modified for better usability and readability so you can quickly scan through your messages

We hope you find these improvements as useful as we do!