Genealogy
With verwandt.de verwandt.de find family members on the Internet: how to in the Internet family nationals find Hamburg, May 19, 2009, with more than 85 million profiles the family network is one of the largest communities of families worldwide verwandt.de. So that the respective family tree continues to grow, verwandt.de introduced a search function that automatically detects previously unknown family members. The family network searches for potential relatives in the database. Due to the large number of existing profiles, the users in this way find unknown family members over the Internet. Their own knowledge of the relationships and the family history is limited. With the new search of verwandt.de, you get automatically new proposals, who may belong to the own family tree. My family tree has grown through these proposals within a few days to dozens of people”would be user Ralf Schneider from Stuttgart.
Further growth is possible due to the new family tree link. With this function you can already connect existing family trees. A user by the auto-generated suggestions finds a new family member with an existing, own pedigree, two users can merge their family trees to a large, common family tree. So, trees can be double in size with one click and you get to know very many new relatives in one fell swoop. “It was always the vision of verwandt.de: the world on the basis of user-generated content to link” explains co-founder Daniel Grozinger (34). Co-founder Sven Schmidt (34) continues: with verwandt.de, we want to show also the older generation, what are the possibilities the Internet offers. Ten years ago it would have been unthinkable, so easy to explore their own family history.” The new features allow families all over the world to stay in touch across national and linguistic boundaries and to network. In the next few weeks, the number of families is your family tree at verwandt.de have created, reaching tens of millions.
Verwandt.de is thus one of the few German startups, which are also internationally successful. Verwandt.de verwandt.de and twelve more local deals in nine languages are powered by OSN GmbH. The founder Daniel Grozinger and Sven Schmidt have started already, getgo.de, dialo.de and Dealjaeger.de together and are involved as investors at Germany’s most successful browser game pennergame.de.
