Genoom Blog

Introducing the Genoom Toolbar! The toolbar is a free add-on to your web browser that lets you stay connected to Genoom and find out what’s happenening in your family network. It’s easy to install and works with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.

Here are some of the features:

Google powered search - search the web with a simple click of the mouse

Quick links - access your home page, family tree, list and other pages

Add photos - start your photo uploads

New messages - receive a notification as soon as you have a new message

Events - reminders of important events in your family calendar

People counter - the number of people in your family network

Users online - find out if someone in your family is online

Status updates - read the latest activity in your family

Look for the toolbar graphic in the right-side column of your home page to get started. Or you may click the following links:

Go to English toolbar »

Go to Spanish toolbar »

Go to French toolbar »

Go to Portuguese toolbar »

This week we are excited to release the new Status Bar feature in Genoom. The Status Bar is a fun way to share information and tell your family what you´re up to.

Your Status updates will be displayed in the top area of your profile and show up on the activity feed of your family members. You can also choose who views your Status updates by clicking on “edit” once you begin typing in the box.

So, what are you up to?

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.

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!

Now you can have and ongoing conversation with family members with the new Forum feature.  Using the Forum is a great way to discuss specific topics, share information and ask specific questions from your relatives.

To participate in a Forum is very easy.

1) Simply click on the Forum link in the navigation menu and you will see a list of all Topics that have been created by your family members.

2) Click on the Topic that interests you and you can add your message and join the conversation.

If no Topics exist, then you can start a new one by clickng the “New Topic” button in the top-right corner of the page.

christmas photo genoom

With Christmas right around the corner, now you can use any of the photos in your Genoom albums to create a personalized Christmas Postcard to send to your family and friends.  It´s fun, it´s easy, and best of all it´s free!

To get started, simply go to one of your photos:

1) Click on the “Send this photo as Christmas Postcard” button below the photo.

2) Customize your postcard

3) Select who you want to send it to (you can even import your contact lists from other email accounts!)

4) Hit send!

To know who is who in the photos will now be much easier.  We have just added our tagging feature which will make it possible to associate names with the faces of people that are seen in the photos.

It´s very easy to use:

1. Select a photo and click the “edit who´s in this picture” link at the bottom

2. Use your mouse to draw a box around the person´s face and select their name from the box that appears

3. That´s it, you´re done!

We have just modified and improved the birthday greetings so that your message/greeting will automatically be sent on the day of the person´s birthday, no matter when you send the message.

That means you can create and your greeting in advance and never miss another birthday!

We´ve just added another great feature: documents.  You can now add and share any kind of document with your family (vital documents, receipts, letters, etc.).