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Geni

Logo: Geni.com, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Genealogy and social networking website owned by MyHeritage

Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012. As of 2024, MyHeritage has kept its genealogical website separate from Geni's website, though users can still match Geni profiles to trees on MyHeritage and to other family tree sites and digitized records. The New York Times groups it with FamilyLink.com and Ancestry.com, "a vast and growing trove of digitized records".2 It was founded by David Sacks.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jun 2006Founded1

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Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012. As of 2024, MyHeritage has kept its genealogical website separate from Geni's website, though users can still match Geni profiles to trees on MyHeritage and to other family tree sites and digitized records.2

Corporate structure

Geni is part of a group headed by MyHeritage. 3 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • MyHeritage Or Yehuda, Israel
    • Geni California
    • River Road Bio Subsidiary

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by David Sacks on Jun 2006.1

Lists can be compiled of profiles that are expected to have the same haplogroup as a specific profile, since they are related on a strict male line or female line.

Genealogical DNA test results (autosomal tests, YDNA tests and MtDNA tests) can be imported from various test sites. The haplogroup of the test person is indicated and propagated in the family tree to all profiles that are expected to share it. Lists of tested people matching the DNA are presented.

From Wikipedia’s article on Geni.com, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

Who has led Geni, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Jun 2006Founded Founded1

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