I don't know what they're up to? I don't know if they're going to turn into ancestry & make people pay & arm & a leg to see the work people are currently doing for free? But I don't trust the place. And here's why:<br /><br />
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Everything on their home & about pages are either plays on words or lies. Adding people = managing profiles & memorials. Inviting people = cleaning up a small mess every other time due to duplicates. And merging with people = a never ending unpaid job.<br /><br />
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They state "add family" & "between family" yet people are adding every god known to man, myths & also historical & famous people hoping to trace a connection. Lots of people are doing it & here's the thing when you merge...you don't know if you're merging with family or another religious person or fan. <br /><br />
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Between this & their collaboration feature privacy & security go straight out the window. Now they're trying to blind people again by making the collaboration a free for all. But that still don't make it a good feature. Plus it still don't do a thing for privacy & security...it just means they're not charging people to have access to your personal info anymore.<br /><br />
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I've went to them after a few merges & said I don't like the big tree & want out. They can't/won't get you out. So your options are donating profiles (living people) & memorials (deceased people) to their community (an absolute & total end for privacy & security) or you can delete things you manage.<br /><br />
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Now here's another thing that makes one wonder about Geni. Anywhere else you can delete your whole tree with one click of a button. But not here. Here you have to delete 'em one person @ a time. And if they've even been here & visited you can't delete them. And if you can't delete them you can't delete some of the people connected to them.<br /><br />
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Here's what finally let me know Geni was up to no good. One person was too busy @ Facebook playing with their application...well he missed all my family forum postings & PMs so when I moved & deleted his stuff he flipped out. So now cuz of one person I've been banned from my own tree...my own info I've added.<br /><br />
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Anybody know where I can go to & force them to let me have access to my stuff again. It's our own personal info. If they want to block me from the guy who's pissed at me go ahead. But they can't keep me from my own info.<br /><br />
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And no I can't afford an atty. This is one of many things I've been ripped off about. I can't afford an atty for anything else so I shouldn't be able to for this either. There's got to be some kind of moderator site or something???