Search and Data Architect at Geni.com (West Hollywood, CA 90069)

Geni's goal is to solve the problem of genealogy. Conventional genealogy applications and websites are primarily individual research tools. Users search public records and build their own family trees, separate from the trees of others. Thus, every family tree is potentially a duplicate of past work. By contrast, Geni is building a single world family tree, through an approach we call Collaborative Genealogy. Equal parts matching algorithms and social network, only Geni creates a single record of human descent via millions of users working together. We do this by wrapping advanced merging and change-management technology within a simple, interactive user interface. Full story...