Genes Reunited, originally known as Genes Connected, is a

genealogy Genealogy () is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kin ...

website that was launched in the UK in 2003 as a sister-site to

Friends Reunited Friends Reunited was a portfolio of social networking websites based upon the themes of reunion with research, dating and job-hunting. The first and eponymous website was created by a husband-and-wife team in the classic back-bedroom Internet s ...

.Phil Inman, Sean Dodson (29 April 2004
"Genes reunited"
''The Guardian''. Retrieved 2013-02-08. It has over 13 million members and over 780 million names listed.

History

Steve and Julie Pankhurst, the creators of Friends Reunited originally formed Genes Connected in 2003 as a sister-site to

, It was later rebranded as Genes Reunited and was sold to ITV in 2005."ITV buys Friends Reunited website"
BBC News, 6 December 2005. Retrieved 2013-11-02. Genes Reunited was part of the group that was sold to Brightsolid in 2009. It is now one of the family history brands, including

findmypast Findmypast is a UK-based online genealogy service owned, since 2007, by British company DC Thomson. The website hosts billions of searchable records of census, directory and historical record information. It originated in 1965 when a group of ge ...

, that are owned by

DC Thomson DC Thomson is a media company based in Dundee, Scotland. Founded by David Couper Thomson in 1905, it is best known for publishing ''The Dundee Courier'', '' The Evening Telegraph'' and '' The Sunday Post'' newspapers, and the comics ''Oor W ...

"Online company Brightsolid sees profits grow"
BBC News (Scotland Business), 24 January 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

Features

Members are able to build their

family tree A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms. Representations of ...

by posting it on the site and investigating which ancestors they share with other members. They can also search historical records, such as

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

records from England, Wales and Scotland and birth, marriage and death records dating from 1837 to 2006. Online community boards give members the opportunity to chat and share advice. They can also upload and share family photos and documents. Each name added to a family tree is given a profile where all information can be stored.

References

External link

Genes Reunited website
{{DCThomson British genealogy websites