Itsourtree.com

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Itsourtree.com

Type	Private start-up
Founded	June 2007
Headquarters	Hamburg, Germany
Key people	Sven Schmidt, founder and CEO Daniel Grözinger, founder and CEO
Industry	Genealogy, Social networking services
Revenue	none
Website	www.itsourtree.com

Itsourtree.com is a social networking service for the creation of family trees launched on June 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).

1 Website features
2 Investors
3 Similarities to other platforms
4 External links
5 References

[edit] 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.^[1]

[edit] Investors

Neuhaus Partners and Hasso Plattner Ventures invested "a multi million [Euros] sum".^[2]

[edit] Similarities 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.^[3] The website's concept resembles Geni.com and has even been called a clone. By now, it exceeds the "original" in growth.^[4] Apart from Geni.com, there are several other Family2.0 websites with slightly different focuses.^[5]