Important questions on Inter-site collaboration, invites and family managed profiles

re: "2. So I may invite her to Geni tree. Is this unethical?"

Definitely not unethical. If you can find their Profile already on Geni, or have enough info to add them -- then go ahead and send an invite/ have Geni send an invite -- tho I would suggest talk to them first, explain a bit about Geni, make sure the e-mail they used for communicating with dna matches is the one they want to use on Geni -- if they accept the invite and set their Password, then default will be they will be only one can now edit that Profile.

Also - if more distant to you than 4th Cousin - once that happens, they will become invisible/Private to you unless they accept a Family Group Invite from you on Geni - this can be very upsetting to folks where they built their trees out to 5th or 6th Cousins (or beyond), one joins, and suddenly it looks like they purposely are hiding themselves/info from the person who added the Profile - but that is just how Geni works - not malicious at all. (And for viewing, can be gotten around if one sends, other accepts a Family Group invite)

Thanks, I added the person as manager to the profiles I added to reach her, but she has not accepted.

I did not contact her first, and that was my bad I think is where I made the mistake.

Thanks
Shaz

Where do I invite a user to my family please?

Sharyn, she needs to accept her invite to Geni first, I think, although if you set up her profile already, you can invite. Actions menu, add to family group.

I don't understand how you achieved 1.
2. seems perfectly ethical regardless of how you achieved 1.

I was not invited to Geni (surprise!) but instead stumbled across myself (very existential experience), i was created by a second cousin who had christmas card status with my mother. I feel that him making a profile for me (and not even telling me) was unethical.

What might be unethical is to purposefully set out to build profiles for living people purely with the intention to get them to join Geni, i think as a commercial tactic that would be unethical.

Thanks all, one has accepted, as I said, I became a serial offender, did it twice.

Alex, 1. I had to make the path to see what relative she was, you have to tell them on the site I was on. Then invited her without consulting her first :( BUT you got here Alex, surely you can thank him now? I was added by Margaret, and I thank her everyday for all that she did.

Not commercial, just got excited, I want to share what I have here, and have others be connected to the large tree that already exists for my family. Then they don't have to re invent the wheel.

Well I talked to him on the phone... Not going all the way to brisse just to say ta