GeniReviews of geni.com

I am on numerous genealogy web-sites, and a seasoned genealogist. I decided to upload a Gedcom on Geni as I liked the idea of one single tree where everyone adds a bit. Since then I have been contacted by members giving out to me for creating double, and even one who wrote to me in capital letters and threatened to report me. Unless they don't understand that every time a new user upload a file, there will be doubles where his tree will hook up to the main tree ? I have contacted the moderators, but got no reply. Since then I am afraid to merge any individual, and I won't do any work on that platform. So very nasty people in there.

As a professional heir researcher for over 50 years I found Geni.com to be a very interesting and collaborative site to gain familial information. However, quite often, the information is wrong, and incorrect information can be vexing to correct. Others will "correct" my entries without documented sources, and quite often burial dates become death dates, and it can be hard to discover correct information, esp. because access to sources that could provide documentation are blocked from view unless you purchase another website's programs. If Geni truly wanted to have a useful site, there would not be Smart Hints and such that are greyed out. Other genealogical programs exist providing such data so why use Geni anymore??? Also, allowing others to input into your tree may cause you to spend forever correcting things, so I now have some 170 trees I need to review in some other manner to insure correctness, which I cannot do in Geni without access to sources.

I have recently discovered that anyone can make themselves managers of a profile and enter false information that I am unable to correct. This leads to wild goose chases for people that don’t exist and other false information. I have requested from Geni how to remove managers that have nothing to do with my family and to remove false data. The response I’ve gotten is a standard email to go to instructions that don’t fix the problem. This is a worthless website.

Meer en meer functies zitten achter de betaalmuur. De lol is eraf. De prijs is veel te hoog.

Functionality is great, but this site is slooooooooooooooow. Lots of errors due to overload, frustrating, not worth your money.