WikiTree

They get all you and your families personal information, then your blocked and can't get back in. Horrible website, and mostly rude people.

Let's be clear, 99% of the top contributors on the site are white. There is absolutely no diversity on the site and if you call them out on that. Expect a ban. It would not be so bad if the response was not to simply ban someone for wanting more diversity. At that point it transitions into racism. This is also a growing trend in most English information sites. Where people of colour are rejected. This then contributes to some interesting racist leanings of AI that draws its information from knowledge sites. I do not think they are even able to correct this issue. Diversity just does not exist in English internet.

Avoid this site like the plague! It's very corrupt and their management team conceals their names! (Don't let them fool you. There is absolutely a management team, but they hide behind "the community"). If one of the "leaders" decides to block or remove your account (which they do often), there is no appeals process, and no names of anyone to even appeal to. You'd have to complain or appeal to the same people who unfairly took your account over. Shady organization that will takeover your account, your personal information, and even your DNA information. They should really be shut down.

There are, just to many mean people. Simple mistakes are treated as if you committed murder,. You will be blocked from your account. I would suggest fInding another site thato is not so intimidating where you can peacefully store your family tree for others.
Those mean people can! Fix a simple mistake with out turning you in to the mediation team,, its very one sided.

Run by people with no life and full of petty squabbles and more rules than any legal system. They kick you out for no reason, demand you undergo "mentorship" if you put a toe wrong and point you towards the endless pages of rules and procedures, none of which make an erroneous entry right. Seems there are a few people on the site who want to "own" all the entries related to particular names for one name studies and will find any reason to kick someone belonging to that family off the site. OK if you love reading endless pages of rules and procedures instead of actually tracing your family tree, but stay away otherwise, will only give you migraines.

Wikitree is an excellent free platform to collaborate with relatives near and far on a global family tree. The vision for having one profile per person who has ever lived means that budding family historians do not need to reinvent the wheel when researching their family history, and get the benefit of work done by others across the globe. It is exciting to be able to join in projects and collaborate further. I have particularly enjoyed participating in the Appalachia Project and the England Project. People are willing to give their time and talents to work together to meet the global goal. I have found standards to be very high indeed and it has been an absolute joy to be a member of this site.

Wikitree is great if you want to find leads and compare DNA, but if you are serious about building an accurate tree, this is not the place to do it. Also, when you post a question or report a situation and G2G boards, if is just like any social media site. You get flamed. So, use the tools that are helpful, and avoid otherwise.

I was a member for several years. I tried to join a group regarding the Revolutionary War. I was basically told that I didn't have to know how.
I asked the administrators a simple question about accessing a page to view my ancestors back 25 generations. I received a nasty response to go to the G2G page.
I asked a question about how to delete my account and have my personal information removed.
These idiots deleted my account and blocked me but didn't remove my profile.
Shut these idiots down!

WikiTree is a global family tree built by enthusiastic supportive volunteers. It's fun and free! Once you have connected your own tree to the global tree you can extend your family tree and discover how you are linked to notables and celebrities from around the world. My experience is that the vast majority of users of WikiTree are keen to help and support others who contribute to the site.

WikiTree is a horrible site. A lot of the profiles are "managed" by societies, such as the Great Migration, Puritan Project, Presidents Project, etc (not sure if I have all of the societies names correct).

My experience is that WikiTree could careless about information being accurate. And if you reach out to any of the societies who manage the profiles or at the very least, help to oversee them, expect to be ignored. It appears to be a very "clicky" platform where you are either in or out - no outsiders will be accepted or acknowledged, bit egos run this platform and if you do not agree with the folks who are "in" the club then you will find yourself out in the cold.

I would NOT recommend WikiTree, paid membership or otherwise.

LJ

Great site to find connections and consolidate sources found in Genealogy sites.
The goal of Wikitree is to have a single tree rather than multiple trees for the same family. Plus it's free!
Genealogy without good sources is mythology. I prefer good documention and souces. Once I found Wikitree, it became my preferred site for creating profiles and adding references.

There are many wonderful things to be said about WikiTree and many of the persons involved are great. Unfortunately, too many of the leaders are control freaks who do not follow their own policies but do get upset if you don't or, as is too often the case, you don't follow their perception of the policy even when you can demonstrate that there was no conflict with the written policy.

They will often close accounts without following their own policy for account closures. My wife's account, was closed even though she was only lightly active, never violated any rules or policies, and was not even notified that her account was being removed. Their claim to have six levels of escalation before removing an account might be true in some cases, but certainly not all... and at times when it is utilized, it is used merely to project the illusion of a just process.

I would love to overlook these mean-spirited folks and recommend the site, but there have been so many others who have fallen victim to these folks that I can only recommend that one stay away.

For a free wiki style site I have not seen anything that comes close to the ease of use, peer reviewed entries and dedication to accuracy as WikiTree.

In theory, Wikitree is a grand idea. People voluntarily add new ancestors to the one world tree and enhance existing profiles.

In practice this leads to a tree which, despite some excellent well-researched entries, is cluttered with an immensity of unsourced rubbish put up by contributors with minimal genealogical skills.

While those who just want to input a few generations of their immediate ancestors may not worry about the overall low standard, those who have done any serious research will face the insurmountable hurdle of The Management. If you depart from whatever is the current Party Line in any area, you are hassled or summarily expelled. Of course there must be rules, but what members do not know until they infringe them are the arbitrary unwritten rules (shared by The Management in secret discussion groups).

From personal experience, having once been a major contributor, and from published testimony of other respected ex-members I can assure you that these statements are not personal pique or paranoia and, if challenged, can produce evidence.

If you have ever been a member of Wikitree and have since left or have been banned, unless you actually ask them to delete you email address off their data base they will keep it.

Great layout but the staff and mods are awful. If you don't do exactly what they want, you get banned.

I have just been blocked by Wikitree after 3 years and over 2000 profiles created. Their reason was because I was 'the subject of too many conflicts'. However the ONLY conflicts I had was with the elites who didn't like that I put my females with their birth name as their 'current' name rather than their married name. All my ancestors are Scottish and even an assigned 'mentor' agreed Scottish women kept their birth names. My ancestors were married, gave birth and buried with their birth names. Married names were only used in census records. This is also consistent with Family Search where I also contribute a lot of work.

This demonstrates the American-centric, sexist and bullying behavior of Wikitree Admin. I was continually assigned numerous 'mentors' who did nothing but spy on me. I did nothing 'wrong' but was blocked every time I mentioned my using female birth names in Facebook comments. Too many times some random person would change their names and I would change them back. This is what a shared tree is about!

I never learned anything new on that site, never made a friend (most members were entitled bullies), or thanked for all my work apart from stupid badges that mean nothing.

It is a cult with a hidden agenda where you will experience a lot of grief & frustration. Don't waste your time!

Misinformation. Screwing with my child profiles, orphaning files with my name, sick sick, misinformation. Vandilising, more correct info, i will not allow wiki tree to merge profiles that weren't gonna be finnished until I knew It was a legible sight, will not be threatened, abused by any one! It did not stop, its habitual wiki blocked my sign in number and will not allow me to sign in my 400 names have been vandilised and stolen, orphaned, While I have no way of deleting, hacked by those people, Emails and threats dont stop, I can not block them from my email address, dirty comments written to offend. Shame Shame Shame, dont delete connection children! LIes LIes LIes, This sight is an illegitimate made up mixed up crap! Never will I use, never put your precious names in to wiki tree spying on children will be reported, I reported this, I was cut off and disconnected, the admin cut the profile manager out and fudged it up - misinformation, mistakes in names / marriages, wiki stole my info and wont stop blocking up my email address with threats. This sight will never be respected again, wrong wrong wrong. I want the watch dog to shash those weak pathetic souls!- below 0 get wiki tree off line please