Geni

I just deleted my subscription. Unfortunately I should have done my homework prior to giving my billing info there. I'll now have to put a stop to any future billing as I'm not even able to make edits on my family tree so what leads me to believe that they won't bill me again? I had put in birth info that was incorrect but tried to change it and nothing allowed me to do so. If you are allowing misinformation to be added to a name then why do YOU only have the control to not allow the changes to be made? There are so many knots in my family tree now that anyone who chooses to use this site will be mislead and we'll have names added that have nothing to do with our family. It really shouldn't be this hard to make changes. So the cycle will continue on and on with misinformation. I honestly don't believe your curators are digging into each and every geneological background and keeping the it correct. I know your response will be that they can't do this but it's up to the person putting the information in to be correct. I tried that. I've wanted to track my lineage but with the lack of ability even with a PAID subscription it's impossible. I have read through the reviews and we all seem to have the same complaint. I'm sure i'll be given the same reply from Michael as everyone else. You're absolutely right. Geni is not for me. I've resolved that issue on my end by the cancelation. Now if you would resolve from your end and remove what i've inputted as misinformation not intended to remain on my tree that would be nice. But it'll be there forever and the worst part is that i PAID for it.

I've contacted GENI about a user, Nancy D. Coon that has stolen all of my family photos from Ancestry.com and uploaded black and white copies to her trees on GENI with (my family). I never gave this person permission, I don't even know this person, over 30 profiles of photos so far that I've found have been taken of photos that either I, my parents or my grandparents took that all solely belong to me and I think that's absolutely ridiculous they cannot respond to such a gross violation of misconduct from one of their members.

By reading reviews I see this site is still corrupted as it was a few years ago. Geni.com does steal private date of living relatives, including your parents, your children, inlaws and more. ALL living and passed on relatives info and photos will be takened by the admins/curators and eventually passed on to others by them. They usually will bad the person with some random reason, take over ALL your profiles, keep your photos you upload, everything about you, your kids, your parents all now for their taking and sharing.
I'm really surprised nobody has done anything about this website yet, legally what they are doing seems wrong and almost identity theft because even if you don't use the site Im sure you will find your name on their somewhere with quite a bit of information on you and you can't even do anything about it.
My own photo and name and other info it on their, stolen from me and on their site, I have tried to contact support for help but got nowhere

Be careful before uploading your family tree to Geni because when you do there is no turning back. Geni don't care about users private info. How is this site LEGAL anyway? What about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and customers right. As user you should have full control about what you upload including full right to have your uploaded information DELETED by the database and not stored forever.

Warning. If you choose to delete your account your user data WILL NOT be purged by the Geni database. They don't even tell you what info they keep when you are gone. It stays on... all the messages you've sent to other users will still be there and it is like being locked out from your account.

These fools contacted me using my dead mother, but saying that she was about to be 85 years old! They don't even know that she's gone! Wow! Idiots. Would NEVER USE. THIS IS PROBABLY THE EXTREMISTS.

Gee!
You can join for free, but what do you get? NOTHING
In the free version they want all your hard earned information FOR FREE
If you have a question - you have to buy the PRO version, about $120.00 up front to ask.
If you want to contact anyone about more information, you have to but the PRO version
If you want to contact anyone, have to buy the PRO version.
And a lot of the information isn't reliable. A lot of the information is lick & stick, cut and paste. In the Sasser Family there are four set of parents for Howell Sasser.
REALLY?

In other words, you work for them for free and to get anything back, you pay them
I wonder how many people have fallen for, what appears to me as, this scam
But there are a lot of stupid people out there. We see that in every election this country has.

If I could give zero stars I would. Deceptive from the onset. You can't do researching unless you take a premium membership, nearly $120, billed annually is the only payment option. I finally signed up for the two week trial to discover I STILL couldn't access research and sources UNLESS I joined myheritage.com at another $120 billed annually; again the only payment option. I worked long and hard to put all my family information I knew into their program... none of my stuff was 'sourced'... apparently nothing else on the site is either. I had planned to check sources but that option was not available to me. I kept getting emails with 'matches' and invitations to merge. When I finally did merge with one (to save typing all the data) I rapidly merged with more than 150,000 ancestors! I utilized the copying option and got over 3,300 pages (not entries, but PAGES) of information. It was way more than I wanted to know, messed up my work and took control out of my hands. It cannot be reversed. It was too much for my computer programs to access, let alone print. That's nearly 7 reams of paper! Geni's goal to have the MOST information is incompatible with my intention to do a simple and accurate family tree. Now they've 'hijacked' my work, my personal information. Glad I was able to cancel before they billed me... it was a minor inconvenience to cancel my debit card. Stay away from geni, it's about GREED.

From my DNA test, it showed I had a lot of Scandinavian with some Iberian decent. Through using Geni search, it has taken me back to those connections though centuries ago. When I googled closer family ties, I received validation to part of my family tree; going from the American Revolution to Colnial Virgina into England, which I know is factual.
Thus far, I cannot condemn Geni due to at least 8 generations in America to be correct.

Stick with Wikitree for this sort of tree. Or Ancestry or a PC or Mac based tree like RootsMagic. After I added my GEDCOM to Geni, there were so many issues to deal with, and I accidently added my exwife's info which was on my GEDCOM. Once it is added, it is there for good. You can disconnect someone, but you are told you are "splitting the tree." Then you get merged with a tree that is rampant with misinformation. I have worked hard to correct trees that are just wrong when I see them, and now MY tree on Geni is merged into these trees that are just wrong. I can disconnect from the wrong ancestors, but it becomes a big mess when 30 other people are saying that the tree goes in another direction than what you are saying. On wikitree they are good at requiring source information, and they keep tree management down to a single person, so if you have an issue with something, you are only trying to convince one person that something needs to change, and you can provide one person with a source to prove that a change needs to be made. I just contacted a "curator" for an ancestor who mysteriously has a middle initial on Geni. He has no middle initial, he was born in 1610 in England, and there are no sources to support any such thing. The "curator" asked me if I contacted the other managers of the profile, which is 27 people, and that maybe one of them knows something. Sorry, I am not doing that, honey, you are the curator, so curate! Don't upload a GEDCOM to Geni. You will be sorry you did.

I find it very interesting that Geni will take nearly any ancestor I attempt to search into infinity, and bring up a truckload of royals, not to mention, fables and myths. Then when I go back to check these so called Kings and Queens in my background with sites like Find a Grave and WikiTree, the search ends in two generations. Am I to believe that these other sites don't have access to the same long lines of nobles that Geni does? Or is Geni just one giant spoof? It was fun at first, but now that I see that I can not verify the information anywhere else, (except maybe MyHeritage,)I'm starting to see the light. MyHeritage results designated me as male, (I'm not), and said I had NO English, NO Scottish, NO Welsh, and NO Irish in my DNA. Funny how that works, since about 90% of my verifiable ancestors come from those countries. SMDH.

No way to edit mistaken relationships that I can see, this site is useless! I was just looking for another way to continue family research since I got disgusted with ancestry.com

Geni.com is very adept at privacy violating, and sends out tons of spam...

I will NOT be fixing any errors, nor will I be approving any merges any more...
I will just be standing by and watching 43 years of Genealogy research just fall apart, because Geni says they own my tree now, and allow anyone (except myself) to edit (or worse, delete) my data...

I feel completely violated by Geni, especially when I get 400 emails in the last 3 years that say "A Geni profile you manage has been deleted"... no permission request from the deleter, just a deletion... Including my son getting deleted by someone who lives in India, and has no conceivable relationship to me going back thousands of years... And a cousin deleting 37 names because he was angry that I posted maiden names of DEAD females...

Also, I NEVER asked, (nor gave permission) to be merged into the Giant tree...
(I DON'T care... and don't need to know if I am related to Jesus by a convoluted path of 200 marriages...)

One of their curators plagiarized my entire tree...
Another of your volunteer curators (who has a shill review on this site) has told me to "just deal with it" and that it's "all part of collaboration"...

The physical address listed for Geni is a Private P. O. Box, I know, I live not far from that address... also, beware of "shill" reviews on this site...

Thanks Geni.com, for ruining a 43 year long hobby...

This website uses deceptive practice to get you to enter information. They then attempt to wrest control of the information from you. If you complain as i di, they suspend your account, and then use your own account to delete the complaints you made, thus giving the appearance you yourself deleted them, as if they were resolved. They then refuse to return or delete any information you have added such as personal family photos, and documents, and give your account to one of their stooges who now controls not only all the branches of the tree you may have laboriously added, but also your private and personal information. Beware of this outift! I received a request to merge, complained about its deceptive nature, one day later exactly not only had my account suspended as retaliation for complaining, but my account is now being used by someone i don't know to manage private family material. These people are the worst sort, avoid them at all costs and by all means google them before you join.

MY TREE WAS ALSO STOLEN WITHOUT ASKING. And how I found out was through === ALL other sites sending me ALL of my pictures that only I had even pictures of my 2 brothers that died in the 30's and telling me that they had a match. I had been doing my tree for over 15 yrs. And it cost me a fortune and without asking they got all of my information for nothing. It completely destroyed me and I have never been on the site since.

Geni does not answer communication unless you pay high fees. Since fees are high this is not an option.