Uriah Willson - Why is someone managing the Willsons, thats not a Willson.

Private User - IF there is a profile within your Max Extended Family with more than one manager, one of whom is not a relative of that person -- you can click "Actions" (upper right), then "Manager Options" -- it brings up the list of Managers for that Profile -- if you see an 'x" after the name, you can click it to delete that manager. [Do not click the "x" after your name, unless you want to stop being a manager!! If you do not see an 'x' after someone else's name then either a) you are not within 4th cousin of the profile (in which case you cannot kick anyone off, except yourself) OR b) the other person is within 4th cousin of the profile.] In my experience, if there is just one Manager listed, it may show an "x', but Geni will not actually delete and leave the profile manager-less.

If you mean someone is editing the profile(s) -- are they Public or Private profiles? If Public, try switching to Private - this will limit both who can edit the profile and who can see the info on it. Or is this not what you want?

This profile is from the 1700s. It was added by a Geni user a number of year ago and that person is the only manager. There are 54 descendants and thousands of relatives. He is even my 6th cousin 5 times removed.

Perhaps you are new to collaborative genealogy and Geni? These older profiles usually have many managers and descendants share older ancestors.

If you want a totally private tree without collaboration, you might look into My Heritage.

I am a descendent and the person managing it is not a descendent

probably Dennis' fault. He's such a menace.

The problem with only having one manager is, over time, it becomes un-managed. #oldage

Thank you, Hatte. :D

That is not how Geni works. Again if you want to be on a site where only direct descendants manage a profile from 300 years ago, it is not Geni. You can privately manage up to your 4th great grandparents. After that, with older profiles, there are no restrictions.

Private User, my response:

Geni is creating one family tree for the entire world, built from the collaborative research of millions of genealogists.
Source: http://www.geni.com/worldfamilytree

Geni is solving the problem of genealogy by inviting the world to build the definitive online family tree.
Source: http://www.geni.com/corp/

Geni users from around the world work together to build a single, comprehensive family tree.
Source: http://help.geni.com/entries/466599-What-is-Geni-

Welcome to Geni!
If you are like most new users of Geni, you have probably been looking for a place to enter, store and share genealogical data on your immediate family (and beyond) with other relatives and friends. Geni is indeed a great tool for doing that. But there are several things that you will need to know before you get too far at building your family tree here. The most important of these is the fact that Geni’s focus is on Collaboration and sharing for the purpose of working toward the ultimate goal of creating a single, accurate family tree that connects all of our users (with no duplicates).
Source: http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Meta:About

That said, welcome to Geni.com. :D

:D

So can someone add me to the managers of my ancestors?

What im saying is why am I not co-managing the ones im decended from? It only shows someone thats not decended managing it, them, the profiles example Willsons?

Uriah Willson was not added years ago, it was added days ago

Currently, Private User, I have you "blocked" from being a friend, because I felt you were "kind of" hostile in the way you approached me via discussions. However, I will go ahead and unblock you, and you can send a request to collaborate with me and I can send you management of the profile.

There are going to be NUMEROUS profiles that you are descended from that you don't currently manage. It's not that crucial, so long as it is accurate. I'll remove you from my block list, now.

Thank you, I appreciate u taking the time to help me collab and co-manage, I look forward to learning from u and with u about our family tree.

Private User If you want management of any profile, go to it and request it from the "Actions" menu

Not finding the collab button . . .Mi2

Private User Request to collaborate under the Actions menu also.

Private User, I sent you a collaboration request, to make it easier.

Accepted, was asleep sorry.

Re: "Currently, MM, I have you "blocked" from being a friend, because I felt you were "kind of" hostile in the way you approached me via discussions." --

Think this demonstrates several things. First, it makes clear that MM did try to contact the manager of the profile -- and failed to get a good response.

I think we all should understand that when a geni-user trips over something they see as offensive or upsetting, especially if they are new or unsophisticated in the ways of geni, their contact may sound hostile -- in many cases, they may express themselves in ways that are way more negative than sounding "kind of hostile" -- and I think we should bend over backwards to discover what has upset them, helping them to calm down and discuss it, etc. -- rather than ignoring or blocking them.

Glad Geni has these Public Discussions as another source folks can turn to for help, and that this apparently got an acceptable resolution.

Yea tried to contact several different ways when someone started adding things to my tree, that i have seen before but was unsure of, shocked me a little, but wasnt hostile to my deffinition

Need help merging old profile. I lost my password to my old geni accound and to my old email.

Done!

Thank you Lasse