MyHeritage.com auto-assimilation of profiles from GENi

Started by Lee Beasley Garvey on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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1/30/2013 at 2:56 PM

I may be late to the party in noticing this but thought I'd share nonetheless. I just logged into my MyHeritage basic account that I created a month ago to check out the new owners of GENi and discovered that everything I've entered into GENi, including photos, has been sucked into MyHeritage and appended to other people's trees (presumably people in my extended family tree); my account only has three profiles. The weird thing is that the data just seems to have been auto-sucked into MyHeritage without review, and relationships are incorrectly displayed, married names have been appended for non-married partners and the profile vist counter was on zero for every profile I visited, which tells me that nobody has even looked at the profiles that got sucked in from GENi, much less reviewed and approved the linkages into existing trees there as you would expect.

Has anyone else seen this happen?

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1/31/2013 at 6:04 AM

I have see profiles exported from Geni via Gedcom, uploaded to other sites... Is that what could have happened?

Private User
1/31/2013 at 7:59 AM

Yes, - if you find your tree on MyHeritage it is caused by _users_ who have exported their Geni tree and imported it there. If lucky you will found out who and ask them to remove your family.

1/31/2013 at 9:43 AM

Yes, I've seen "my" Geni tree on other sites - thankfully, without living person data, so no worries. But how accurate? It's a backup for someone.

1/31/2013 at 9:47 AM

From the evidence I have so far it's not clear who on MyHeritage might have exported a GEDCOM with my tree in it, but it was my previous understanding that a GEDCOM was only a text file - not true. According to Wikipedia a GEDCOM export can include links to multimedia files that are mapped to individual profiles - and it appears that GENi is either enabling this GEDCOM feature or else enabling links to GENi profiles from MyHeritage since all the media files from the GENi profiles I entered are now over in MyHeritage profiles not managed by me. Be aware.

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