green dot by a profile means?

It's a globe, flagging that it is a public profile.

Also, when you look at your tree, public profiles can be identified by a green frame around the profile photo. A blue frame around the photo means that the person is registered with geni.com and owns his or her profile.

Thank you, Élan.

One more thing to note when looking at your tree is that Mastered Profiles or MPs will have a purple frame around the profile photo.

After reading this, I started looking at my tree more closely, and noticed that my profile, my husband's, mother's and sister's all had the blue box around the profile photo, but others in my family didn't. I can possibly understand my father's as he could be included in other's trees, but my mother's sisters and their families haven't had any tree matches that I'm aware of so I'm just wondering why it doesn't show that I own those profiles. Or am I misunderstanding the whole thing.

Jean Hageman,

Have any of your mother's sisters and their families claimed their profiles?

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

No, as far as I know, I'm the only one in my extended family to be on Geni. I've found a cousin over on MyHeritage.com which is why I joined that site as well, but I've had no matches on these aunts or my father.

I just went through my tree more carefully, and the only profiles with the blue frame around the profile picture are mine, my husband's, twin sister's and mother's. My son, grandson, father, half-sister, ex-husband, niece and the rest of my extended family don't have anything around them.
I'm a descendent of all Mormon pioneers so I do have a huge family with lots of extended family on here. Where my parents and one of the aunts I mentioned left the Mormon church and aren't into doing their genealogy, I just find it strange that I don't own the profiles that have no matches--I'm the sole manager for those profiles.

I guess it doesn't matter what it all means, just rather strange........

Jean, when a profile is merged you continue to own it. It will show more than one owner in that case. If you've invited your immediate relatives to Geni and they have responded by registering, then they have taken ownership of their profiles and then they show the blue frame.

Jean -- Blue Frame means the person the profile is about has logged on and claimed their OWN Profile. If you are seeing a blue frame around your husband's profile it should mean at some time he "claimed" his profile himself. [did you enter his e-mail in his profile? And if so, did he then accept the invite Geni sent him? Or even just click on it to go look? that would do it] Ditto for each of the others you mention having the Blue Frame.

In at least one sense-- Only the person the profile is of can be said to "own" their profile. Unclaimed profiles have managers, not owners.

(think this is a restatement of what Elan says above; hopefully at least one of the phrasings will make sense to you, and possibly both)

Lois, that makes perfect sense as they're the only ones who've joined Geni. Thanks for clarifying that.

While I'm at it, I have another question some of the more experienced Geni users can explain to me.

How do you become a profile manager for profile you didn't enter. What I'm referring to is the fact that on my profile page it shows the number of profiles I've added, and the number I'm the manager of. What I find curious is that I'm the manager of about 30+ more profiles than I entered. Can someone explain this for me?

Jean Hageman,

What it means is that you have been assigned management of some profiles that you probably did not add.

Curators have a tool that lets them assign management rights to profiles that are managed by a claimed profile that is no longer active.

Kevin