…and uhm, well… erm… we’re not entirely sure if it’s a giant leap for mankind and if it can be compared to landing on the moon, but it’s definitely a very good day for all genealogists out there. We’ve officially emerged from "Beta"!!! Of course, that doesn’t save us from bugs, but it definitely shows that our website has reached its maturity. We’ll keep up working hard on it every day to provide you with the best free family tree and genealogy features on the net. So enjoy the site and spread the word.

Remember the German competition?
We’re following the Olympic Spirit and see the nomination itself as an honour, because sadly, we only got 4th in the Online Star 2008 awards. But, there’s nothing to be sad about for long, as the 4th place out of 20 startup nominees is quite good, actually.

Without all those voted we got from you, we would not have made it that far, so thanks a lot for your support!!!

Of course, we congratulate the winners brands4friends (1st place), Doodle (2nd place) and Bransparent (3rd place).

We’ll celebrate our 4th place anyway

At the weekend, the German Genealogy Convention in Bad Elster (Germany, of course ) will attract genealogists’ attention all around Germany (Link – page is in German only). We’ll be present in Bad Elster, too, to answer all kinds of online genealogy questions. We’ll also hold a lecture on online genealogy, so quickly book your flight and don’t miss it! Just in case that you can’t come: do you have any other proposals for genealogy fairs or meetings in your area? Feel free to publish them in the forum or comment on this blogpost.

Constant growth of our crew has forced us to leave our cute little office in Hamburg. This weekend, we’ll move to… Hamburg! The new office will be right around the corner, no more than 500 m as the crow flies. To save ourselves from problems like the guys’ in the pictures, we will be packing everything thoroughly tonight and go about the transportation of all our servers and stuff on Saturday. As a consequence, we probably won’t be able to answer any customers’ requests until Tuesday at noon.

Our new address is:

OSN GmbH
Heimhuder Str. 72
20148 Hamburg
Germany

The map below shows our new location:

Größere Kartenansicht

True to Murphy’s Law “Things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance” our servers quietly broke down at the weekend. That is why you may have encountered some difficulties with the registration process and our developers had to stay up all weekend. We would like to apologize for any inconveniences and after giving the servers a big hug, the registration works perfectly.

Link: www.youtube.com