The listed features are accumulated from the forum where they have been acknowledged by a member of the Geni Team (date stamp). All qualified roadmap listings have therefore at least one date stamped reference to a forum thread. Ideally there would be only one thread in the forum per feature.

For requests/suggestions that have not yet received any positive response from Geni Team Member in the forum, please see Suggestions.

It is our hope that Geni staff will assist maintaining and ensuring each feature request is correctly listed in any of the following phases

1. Under development - For features currently being worked on by development staff and to be released in near future (<3 months)
2. Planned features - For features accepted and waiting to be allocated to development staff.
3. Features being investigated - Features currently being researched/reviewed by the Geni Team
4. Postponed features - Features considered low priority and placed on the backburner
5. Rejected feature requests - Requests/suggestions that will not be considered
6. New feature requests - Requests/suggestions that have not yet received any positive response from Geni Team Member

Each section has a general subsection "Additional features/fixes" for minor bugfixes

Under development

For features currently being worked on by development staff and to be released in near future (<3 months, forum tagged "stay tuned")

Tree Merging

Tree merging will enable existing trees to be merged.

• There is currently no time estimate for this feature.
• Forum threads:
  1. (May 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=437#post-1867
  2. (Jun 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=525&page=2#post-7350
  3. (Jul 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=722#post-4352
  4. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2026#post-12012

GEDCOM import

GEDCOM import would allow users to import their existing family trees from other programs into Geni. Note that GEDCOM export is already implemented as an alpha feature.

This feature is dependent on the "Tree merging" feature.

• There is currently no time estimate for this feature.
• Forum threads:
  1. (Jul 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=367#post-4268
  2. (Jun 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=634#post-2792
  3. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1421#post-7201
  4. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1470#post-7445

Revision History

Keeping track of profiles revision history and allowing users to undo actions - This will allow members of the tree to check what changes have been made by any members of the tree and reverse to previous versions

• There is currently no time estimate for this feature.
• Forum threads:
  1. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1399
  2. (Oct 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=136
  3. (Oct 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1577
  4. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=327
  5. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1394

Localization

Development is in progress.

• There is currently no time estimate for this feature.
• Forum threads:
  1. (Apr 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=445
  2. (Aug 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=263&page=5
  3. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1378
  4. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1421
  5. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=889&page=2

Family Timeline/Events

This will show a timeline of family events.

• There is currently no time estimate for this feature.
• Forum threads:
  1. (Mar 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=9
  2. (Jun 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=657
  3. (Jul 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=859
  4. (Aug 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1271
  5. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1406
  6. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1407
  7. (Sep 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1481
  8. (Oct 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1704

Additional features/fixes

Planned features

For features accepted and waiting to be allocated to development staff.

1. (Nov 07) "Another radius (larger than the Family group) outside of which only public access will be permitted" http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2026&replies=17#post-12162

Related: "My Tree" ability. http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=722&replies=37#post-7649

Additional features/fixes

1. (Nov 07) User to specify link or attachment in the GEDCOM export http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=457&page=3&replies=49

Features being investigated

Features currently being researched/reviewed by the Geni Team

Photo Tags

User defined tags (free-tags) to group photos

• Forum threads:
  1. (Aug 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1067
  2. (Aug 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1273
  3. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1888
  4. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1301

Photo Import

Ability to 'import' photos from other online photo services (Flickr, Picasa)

• Forum threads:
  1. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1872
  2. http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=615

Redesign help site

Creating links among various help/community properties for better integration - help (faq), blog, wiki, and forums.

• Forum threads:
  1. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1298&page=3

Adoption

This will allow the illustration of adopted children with both their adoptive and biological parents.

• Forum threads:
  1. (Mar 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=414
  2. (Aug 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1099
  3. (Nov 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1970

Additional features/fixes

1. (Aug 07) Geni in print http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1123&page=2 and http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1475
2. (Aug 07) Simplify entering date (currently three separate boxes) and support of other date formats http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1243
3. (Sep 07) Shared Photo Albums http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1429
4. (Sep 07) Keyboard navigation in tree http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1416
5. (Nov 07) Icon view and List view of lists http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1857
6. (Nov 07) Soundex search http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1306
7. (Nov 07) Advance searh functions http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=35
8. (Nov 07) Photo rotation tool http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1847
9. (Nov 07) Additional language fields http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=792
10. (Nov 07) Abilty to Edit and delete message in Family Discussion http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1959
11. (Nov 07) Resize box for "About me" in edit mode http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1931&replies=3
12. (Jul 07) Stories/Anecdotes http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=990&replies=13#post-4757 w/ tags (Nov 07)http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1273&replies=9#post-10861
13. (Nov 07) Chronological Tree Sort http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1882&replies=12
14. (Nov 07) Include spouses on Geni Messages http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2036&replies=4#post-12098
15. (Nov 07) Cycle Symbol, similar to branch symbol http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2080&replies=6

Postponed features

Features considered low priority and placed on the backburner

1. Flash dropdown boxes listen for the first character only, not the first three characters as HTML. (Apr 07) http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=142

Rejected feature requests

Requests/suggestions that will not be considered

New feature requests

Requests/suggestions that have not yet received any positive response from Geni Team Member (See also Suggestions.)

1. (Aug 07) Sort photos chronologically http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1067
2. (Nov 07) Edit access unlocked for locked profiles birthdate, birth order and current location http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1819&replies=12
3. (Nov 07) "My Family" Tree view http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=638&replies=9 & http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1106&replies=1#post-5461
4. (Nov 07) Same "Showing" options on Map that list has http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1921&replies=6
5. (Nov 07) Self-defined/Labelled Relationships http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1903&replies=4#post-10860
6. (Nov 07) Separate Biography Section http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=355&replies=13#post-11496
7. (Nov 07) Sort by location in list view http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1882&replies=12#post-10865
8. (Nov 07) Define "My Family" Unilaterally http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1965&replies=8#post-12089
9. (Nov 07) Option to Define "Step" Family Connection http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1965&replies=8#post-12078
10. (Sep 07) Duplicate Entry Finding http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1609&replies=6 http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2054&replies=2#post-12192
11. (Nov 07) Public Display Name http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2038&replies=4#post-12103
12. Individual Tree Branch or Profile Moderators self designated http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=319&replies=43#post-5662
13. Better Single Parent Display http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=208&replies=22
14. Hiding individuals on tree http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=208&replies=22#post-10930
15. (Nov 07) Show spouses for ancestors adjacent instead of by birth order http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2752&replies=4
16. (Dec 07) Family Social Board/Hub http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2751 http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=425&replies=8#post-1821 http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1100&replies=3#post-5436
17. (Dec 07) Family RSS / News # http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=2751 http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=425&replies=8#post-1821 http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1100&replies=3#post-5436
18. (Aug 07) Relationship Calculator http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=1272