- Itsourtree.com
Infobox_Company|company_name=Itsourtree.com|company_logo=|company_type=Private start-up|foundation=June 2007|location_city=Hamburg |location_country=Germany|key_people=Sven Schmidt, founder and
CEO
Daniel Grözinger, founder andCEO |industry=Genealogy, Social networking services|revenue=none|company_slogan=everyone's related
homepage= [http://www.itsourtree.com www.itsourtree.com] (English, German, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch)Itsourtree.com is a social networking service for the creation offamily tree s launched onJune 26 ,2007 . The free-access website is privately owned and operated by OSN Online Social Networking GmbH. Users can build their own family tree and invite relatives to participate and communicate. Itsourtree.com was founded by the online entrepreneurs Daniel Grözinger (35) and Sven Schmidt (33).Website features
The site's main focus is on the creation of family trees, but users can also send messages, invite relatives and friends, upload photos or search for other people in the data base. It is available in various languages, the multilingual concept of the site helps to find relatives worldwide. The site supports
GEDCOM import and export as well as calendar features and birthday reminders. [http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9905221-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware Webware: Map your family in more ways than one with It's Our Tree]Investors
Neuhaus Partners and
Hasso Plattner Ventures invested "a multi million [Euros] sum". [http://www.verwandt.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/080109_verwandtde_pm_en.pdf Itsourtree.com press release]imilarities to other platforms
Itsourtree.com claims to be the fastest-growing social network in Europe and to have more than 3 million families working on their family trees. [http://www.verwandt.de/blog/2008/04/15/30-millionen-profile/de/ Verwandt.de Blogpost] The website's concept resembles
Geni.com and has even been called a clone. By now, it exceeds the "original" in growth. [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/geni-clone-growing-faster-than-geni/ Geni clone growing a lot faster than Geni.TechCrunch November 28 2007 ] Apart from Geni.com, there are several otherFamily2.0 websites with slightly different focuses. [ [http://genealogy.about.com/od/social_networking/Social_Networking_Family_Genealogy_20_Web_Sites.htm Social Networking - Family & Genealogy 2.0 Web sites ] ]External links
* [http://www.itsourtree.com/ Company website] :* [http://www.itsourtree.com/blog Itsourtree.com Blog] (official):* [http://www.itsourtree.com/forum Itsourtree.com Forums] (official)
References
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