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Geni, once the best place to create a family tree and collaborate with relatives, is now a place of negativity and harassment. I have been on Geni for 15 years and have been very happy. Recently, things took a drastic change. Myself and many other account managers began receiving messages claiming my family does not exist and relatives were made up. A man, who had no family tree of his own and no relation to anyone, began sending daily messages that he was going to delete these profiles. I contacted Geni, who then defended this behavior by saying that all he wants is proof that your Great Grandfather x 13 is a real person. My response is that I cannot provide a paper trail to a person alive in the year 1500. Geni said that they will delete any profile that does not have proof. We all know that proof cannot always be obtained, especially going back over 500 years. So, the messages continued from this disgruntled member saying that my profiles will be deleted. I am helpless now to really provide anything other than oral history and or collaboration with other members who are also related and then also DNA. I was told that I was in the wrong and GENI now allows profiles to be randomly deleted. I guess aggressive cancel culture is now the way things are done on something as simple as a family history site. The world is changing and being aggressively disrespectful is the now the accepted way. This is not the same genealogy it was a few decades ago. I would not recommend GENI as a site. You are always now under the threat of being deleted if GENI or any hostile member wants you or your family removed.
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Ryan M.'s review of Geni earned 4 Very Helpful votes
“Exactly my thoughts, it seems the "Management" Is way too involved and controlling in personal family lineages, and then they lock them up and add their own bios!”
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Ryan, as we've been discussing on site genealogy without evidence is indistinguishable from fantasy. The profiles in question are from the 16th century in a shared family tree - they have a huge impact on tens of thousands of other users. We're actively working to try to get some sources on these profiles, if not from the users who added them then anyone with reliable information. For you to come here and post a 1 star review is spiteful and petty. Why do you still have an account with a site you view so poorly? Adding sources is important in collaborative genealogy.