
For situations such as this, it is probably best not to delete a person, but to post on "ATTENTION Curators ..." https://www.geni.com/discussions/142108 and ask them either to disconnect the family (if you are saying the family does not belong there) - you can give a link/links in your post, explaining exactly who should be disconnected from whom -- or request that a Curator contact you via Geni-mail so you can further explain if you feel that would be better - but be aware, link to Private Profile will say <Private> <Last Name> to most of us - but can be used by a Curator to see the Profile, so even if it is a private profile, you can post the request with a link.
if you are saying the family belongs there, but someone got facts wrong on the profiles in that family - then perhaps you can correct the facts yourself. If not, you can appeal to folks on the "ATTENTION Curators ..." thread I reference above.
(If I have totally misunderstood, as sometimes happens -- that is still probably the best place to post for help for something that has gone wrong with profiles)
Thanks !! I tried that a couple of times but they just ignore me. Maybe I should just delete my entire site. Rather have nothing than have a Tree full of mistakes. I base my information only on documentation. But some people have no clue what they are doing. They actually changed my grandparent photo to some one I have never seen before :)
Yvonne - you say "I base my information only on documentation." - but - do you provide that Documentation on the Profile??
If not, then there is no way for a Curator (or anyone else) to tell from the Profiles that some are based on Documentation, some are not.
--- I just checked -- and it says for you, that you have not added any Documents. I also looked at a few profiles - and those had nothing in the "About" Section and nothing entered for Event Descriptions (some folks use one, some the other, some both). You need to provide the documentation on Geni if you want Geni-Users to respect the fact that your people and the facts about them are based on Documentation.
I suggest you get to work writing in the About Sections (eg such-and-such fact from my personal knowledge since this is my mother; such-and-such fact from such-and-such document, etc.) and/or putting info in the Timeline Event Descriptions and possibly also uploading Documentation.
Meanwhile, if there are any incorrectly attached Profiles, ask again in "ATTENTION Curators please assist" - with link and explanation of why it is wrong -- and if a couple days go by and no response - repeat the request starting out with - still hoping for help with ... or some such.
Once your Profiles actually SHOW that they are based on Documentation, you could also post in "ATTENTION Curators please assist" that you base your information only on documentation and would like to disconnect profiles which do not have any documentation provided and which you have no reason to believe are true -- but you do not want to destroy anyone else's work, so can they help you to do this responsibly and/or help you to obtain info showing those profiles actually do belong?
No intention on destroying anyone else's work. I just did not want them to attach to mine. There is no way I am going to add 6000 plus documents on Geni. I was still in the process of adding my entire database. I only started using Geni to get more of my family interested in Genealogy.
Good luck, you have a great product. But if a person has no control over work they have done. that is a problem for me.
Thanks anyway
Any Profile you allow to be Public - no, you have no control over it.
You are allowed to make any Profile you manage Private - but if it is way back in history and not closely related to you, then it may possibly be changed to Public - tho you can explain to the person (Curator?) who made it Public, and the reason you want it Private seems good, you may get away with resuming having it be Private (or possibly can just change it and, if no one interested, get away with it).
Geni is trying to create a World Tree, so it is officially considered Good, not bad, to connect to the work of others.