A family tree is helpful tool when it comes to tracing one’s genealogy. Compared to a family tree on paper, an online family tree is much easier to maintain and share with friends. Here to help you create such a tree is a web tool called “Geni Family Tree.”

Geni Family Tree is a free to use web tool that lets you create an online family tree. After you create an account on the site you can start adding relations to the tree starting with your parents. From there on you keep expanding the tree. You can invite other family members to the site and have them create their family trees. When the site finds a common relation between two trees it merges them to expand the entire tree. Based on the tree you create, Geni can reveal some important information about your family. For instance in the stats page you can find the age distribution for the living, average life expectancy based on death records of ancestors you enter, and informative graphs and charts representing other useful information.

Features:
- A user-friendly web service.
- Helps create an online family tree.
- Lets you share and print your tree.
- Joins trees that have common relatives.
- Shows important stats and figures derived from the tree.
- Similar tools: Kindo, Dynastree, Genoom and FamilySearch.
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Check out Geni Family Tree @ www.geni.com/family-tree/start (by MOin from Urban Savior)