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Create Your Family Tree with Geni
Another useful Web 2.0 application I am playing-with right-now is Geni. Their tagline: “Geni is the fast, free, fun way to create your family tree - and stay in touch”. Although fast may not apply to those unfortunate souls who does not have adequate internet pipe bandwidth (I’m exaggerating here 
), it is free and it is fun. Other than that, it can be used as a good exercise to remember your immediate (and even not so immediate) relatives.
On the first go, I was able to name (not their full name though, we used to know each other by our nick name only) over 50 of my closest relatives. Not a bad feat for someone who is terrible at remembering names like me 
. It grows to 106 by the time I wrote this. All uncles and aunts from my father’s side, and so their children (i.e. my cousins) are all covered, I think. Some with their husband/wife (I simply forgot the name of my in-laws, or even worse I don’t even know their name 
), even less are their children (e.g. the first-cousin-once-removed — I just found out that this term does exist ). Need a lot of help here ….
The bigger problem is on my mother’s side. My mother is the 11th child (of 13 siblings). I was able to name only 7 of them (miss the other 5) * shame on me 
*. I think this happened for at least two reasons:
- my mother is among the youngest, some of them are already passed-away even when I have not been born (still, this is not an excuse to not even knowing them).
- after the marriage, my mother lives quite far from her brothers and sisters, hindering intensive interactions with them (unlike the aunts and uncles from my father who were still living in Jogja until now).
Excuses excuses excuses . Yes, excuses, but I will ask my mom to be able to fill the blanks. On the good side, for the uncles closer to my mom (i.e. the age differences are not so great) I still very much remember them 
.
The other good (and important) thing is the family tree will surely help me completing the homework: knowing and remembering the relatives of my wife . Not an easy task… with 6 uncles/aunts from my father-in-law (got them all covered already I guess) and 16 (!) from my mother-in-law … (It’s not easy, isn’t it honey? 
)
May be you should build your family tree too, who knows that we share the same great great great great grand parent?
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