By Emmanuel Narokobi

Now as more and more PNG’eans travel overseas, marry overseas or just runaway from their provinces the relevance of family becomes less important for some. Family is a huge thing in PNG and I can count the endless arguements in families or especially between couples because a certain tambu does not get along with you, etc. But I guess it’s the right thing to know who you are related to and well just keeping in touch with that cousin of yours who used to beat you up when playing ‘touch peggy’ and ‘marbles’ (or maybe you did the beating up?!).

Or another phenomenom that is happening with families in my social circle in Port Moresby is that everyone I know is hooking up with each other so it won’t be too long before everyone I meet at Bava Park or Lamana is somehow related to each other.

So anyway I found this great website that can help you know who you are related to or just keeping track of family across the globe. It’s called Geni and it has an easy to use interface.

 

It’s website reads:

Geni is a unique approach to solving the problem of genealogy, which is the question of how everyone is related.

Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. When you add a relative’s email address, he or she will be invited to join your tree. That relative can then add other relatives, and so on. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.

Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share information and work together to build profiles for common ancestors.

Geni is a private network. Only the people in your tree can see your tree and your profile. Geni will not share your personal information with third parties.

So I guess everyone is related then, well relatively speaking that is.