Profile Manager

I have not seen this problem for me, but sometimes the opposite!
Distant reatives are mentioned to manage my clósest relatives and with the pictures of my familymembers that I was the first to introduce and make a family tree for.

I am often not mentioned at all. I think I should be mentioned if I am the first to start
a tree of my father (and his family) and my mother and her family by their second names.
I think both Geni and My Heritage should date the first person and his och her name to introduce a new family tree, or the beginning of one.
Or perhaps even the ten persons that follow the first starter - to make the family tree grow. After that, only new managers can take over/ replace from an older relative.
Every body want to manage their own familytree but can build it with the help of other
known or unknown relatives
I am the only child of my father, who is the youngest of 7 children, There is a custom npt to name all the children only say " and 3 others". I think this might make it invisible that for example I was the first of my two families ( father and mother) to start
building family trees,
Britt-Mari Lindqvist

I understand your frustration but does not relate to my issue which I posted here to have this resolved as I could find no other way to contact anyone on the Geni management team.

Hi - Interesting views expressed.
What one needs to always bear in mind that Geni is a World Family Tree and has as one of its objectives to have ONLY ONE profile per person.
This means that when someone builds an unconnected tree on Geni and it contains a profile of a person that is already on Geni, then Geni automatically suggests a Merge.
Once the merge is done then the 2 profiles have combined into 1 and there are then 2 managers of that profile.
Living persons are affected by the Geni Privacy Policy, but in the case of deceased persons, their profiles are generally Public and in this way can be viewed and merged.

Here is the Geni Privacy Policy.
https://www.geni.com/company/privacy

I have often advised people who wish to have a Private and limited Family Tree that they are best advised to investigate using My Heritage where trees can be isolated and membership is private or access can be regulated by the "Tree Owner"
With Geni, entries that appear in Merge Centres encourage the merging of similar profiles and this has a knock-on effect and will give rise to multi managers.
Likewise if someone wishes to become a Manager of a profile, they can request it and any one of the Managers of the profile can grant it.

My view is enjoy having Multi Managers as Geni also encourages collaboration and in this way there is more assistance available.
The above are my personal views and others may wish to disagree.
The main thing is to enjoy Geni and to preserve your family history for the benefit of your children's children.
Regards
John

Hello Private User,
as you know other family member can add profiles to the tree you share. These profiles are often NOT your relatives. For example when a cousin of yours add THEIR cousins, from the side of the family that you do not share.

When a user closes their account on Geni, management of profiles is typically TRANSFERRED to a nearby relative, usually the closest active user. I'm almost certain that this is what happened here. Rather than having yourself removed as manager, you can simply ignore them.

This does NOT, in any way, change who can manage the profiles that you added.

I hope this answers your concerns.

Shmuel-Aharon Kam,
Geni Curator

BTW Curators are NOT part of the Geni management team. We are all volunteers, users like you. We have been given some extra tools to enable us to help other users, and to maintain the integrity of the historical tree.

Private User, in addition to what Shmuel-Aharon Kam (Kahn / שמואל-אהרן קם (קאן wrote, there is another similar mechanism by which you can have acquired management of profiles. That is when a user is found to be inactive (having not logged in for a long time - not sure if there is a strict cutoff, probably somewhere between six months and two years) in which case management can be transferred to another user. I would expect you to get notified when this happens but is easy to overlook such notifications. As long as you are active on Geni yourself, there is no risk of this happening to profiles you manage.
Being a manager of a profile does not impose any obligations, so ignoring it as Shmuel-Aharon Kam (Kahn / שמואל-אהרן קם (קאן recommended is risk-free

Kind regards, Ard van Bergen (Geni curator)

Private User, can you give a link to a profile that exhibits the phenomenon that you reported?

Private User I got this in an email yesterday and was concerned for you.

Most of my immediate family was added and managed by a lady I had never heard of, and my fathers side too by a lad I did not know.

The lady is wife of a second cousin we did not know we had, who, has done so much work I can go back 40 generations. She had since become a dear friend, and even sent me two cartons of hard copy of the family and a huge scroll.

The lad turned out to be the son of girl I knew who lived next door to my mothers parents all their married life. Turns out both the father and mother were my Dads second cousins and we never knew that either. I felt ashamed that I had thought this boy was "trespassing" in my family (10 years ago).

I manage many profiles that I am not, and never will be related to, I add photos and documents when I find them, rather than limit myself to my own. I do not like leaving good sources without sharing them.

All the lives we record matter, and, often I have found myself quite involved or in tears working in parts of the tree.

So please do not think that if someone works on your family that they are detached, Geni is a collaborative tree, we are one big family tree, as many of my 24th cousins will agree :)

Your issue is being addressed I believe. you also have the option to click manaer options and remove yourself as a manager, but, it may turn out tht you are related after all.

Have a great day :)

Christine. Welcome to the World Family Tree. You are my 10th Cousin and we share one of our Great Grandparents. You are connected to my LT. Daniel Mason 8th Great Grandfather.

In this World Family Tree which is a co op of information, and placement of family lineages. Genealogy is a science that is used in many other fields besides family lineages. We are researchers, collaborate with correct data, and and complete the placement of that project.

Don't forget that each lineage starts with a pair of father and mother, will continue until it dead ends for both mothers and fathers family tree.

With Geni World Wide Family Tree has recruited members from other countries, and they play a very important role in connecting yours and other's dead end lineages. This is a CO OP among the scientist and members to assist each other, and continue to connect other genealogies to social anthropology, social archaeology, and sociology.

Just hang in there, be patient, research like a scientist, and find your dead end.

> @christine - Adding to your query, how can geni add me as manager to over 250+ profiles, all done on the same day. Seems done by default and also add me to 'follow' these profiles which up to that point had not heard/know of.
So be it if we are connected but object to being added as a manager/follow in this scenario that is totally untrue. What is the logic behind it - I have zero information about these profiles to add anything meaningful
If I was deemed to be 'inactive' as was one suggestion then why add me as manager. One profile had 'no name' with no information at all. Rather than going into 250+ profiles would rather spend my energy deleting all information I have on my tree so that very little is retained by Geni who knows what else one is added to without your knowledge which in this day and age is unacceptable

Thank you all for your responses however, I feel the issue of adding me to profiles that I have no connection to and vice versa without prior notification or consent is a invasion of privacy.I cannot understand the logic behind randomly adding someone as Profile Manager totally unconnected to that person surely there is someone in that family tree that would be more suitable.

Also my photos from albums that I have not shared to Geni have been added to different profiles.These are private albums that I only have the right to share furthermore the person may not agree to having their photos from my album posted to their profile.

Hi Kenneth Nader-never heard of your connection but looking at your tree I see we are related thru my mother’s Whippy family going back many generations.Pleased to know -I interested to know how you made the connection.

There is some general information about privacy on Geni on this page: https://www.geni.com/company/privacy

There are some settings that determine which data from you and your family is visible to others, see:
https://www.geni.com/account_settings/profile_privacy
https://www.geni.com/account_settings/managed_profiles
https://www.geni.com/account_settings/family
and also
https://www.geni.com/account_settings/facebook_settings

A photo I took of my father is all over the internet now, and I am fine with that, he isn't only my father, he is a cousin, second cousin, uncle, grandfather and great grandfather to a couple that we will never get to know. They can see what the family traits look like, that is important. William George Duthy

I remember when I first saw a picture of my estranged grandfather, I fell in love with him at first sight, he looked so cheeky too, and that was a war photo.

We are about sharing here, because so many of us share the same ancestors.

Private User You are my sons fathers 10th cousin twice removed, I know somewhere in his line there was a merge, done by someone else that I have doubts is correct, if you see a mistake here, please let me know. Kenneth John Smith

Screen shots have been posted on social media the joys of the world wide Web, but my issue is with Geni, not with a particular person, tbat they remove me off the 250+ profiles they added me to that overrides any privacy setting of mine. The information can be found anyway without one being added as a manager

Private User I second John, Job, Aard and all the others. John Sparkman mentioned My Heritage. I always send a web link of Legacy. That is a private harddisk only you can work on.

Private User I agree. People should always remember once you put a photo on the internet is is not YOUR photo anymore.☺

Judi