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Adding the ancestress of the person I was trying to reach put me as her "admin" informed me that I had 2 matches and put a paywall between me and the person I was trying to reach in the first place. Wow, that was rude. I could see the info online before but now that I added it to my tree, I have to have pay for it? That is insane. What a horrible business model. You know what? I would gladly pay geni 119 bucks if they would have this member call me to compare family notes. As is, I deleted the entire tree I entered as not to put a paywall between us and anyone else who may try to connect too those families. I think I am done with Geni. My experience was very disappointing.
Tip for consumers:
Go to familysearch.org. It is 100% free and one world format tree is the best.
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Family tree. Huge mistake. Adding family tree put up pay walls. Have no way to reach a member. Says email sent. If site would guarantee in person connection I would pay their fee.
We have DNA on familytreedna (paternal), ancestry.com, trees on ancestry.com and I heavily contribute to familysearch which has a one world tree format which seems to best of the two afore mentioned sites. I joined geni because I found that a person who was researching a particular family 20 years ago is still active on that site. I know how we connect. So I got a basic (free) login added the family tree up to common ancestor, emailed the member twice and got 0 responses. Even though this particular member was active since I emailed. So today I decided to add relationship down from our common ancestor to his ancestress and then geni told me they found a match and I can join 2 weeks for free to remediate this match or 119 a year today. I know exactly what the relationship is. I am not sure if with basic (free) account my emails are reaching this member in any way as I feel he holds key information about the family I am researching based on what was posted on rootsweb years ago. There is no indicator that shows me if my emails to him were received or seen? So I am leaving a neutral rating because I am not sure how geni works exactly.
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Hi Yolanda, Geni is a collaborative family tree built by stitching together our members' trees where they overlap. Merging duplicates is a free feature on Geni. What you encountered is an automatic "tree match" suggestion that is surfaced by the system; that is a paid feature on Geni that allows us to fund the expense of building and hosting the site. If you discover duplicate profiles that should be merged, you can do that for free.