If within your family group you have access independent of who is the manager, except of locked Master Profiles, user-profiles and profiles of children under 14.
Outside your family group you get full access to public profiles by collaborating with one of the profile managers. You find an option to invite to collaboration on the users Actions menu.
Please note that this is not needed unless you have something to contribute to the profiles, - adding extra info etc, since the profile is public, even to the outside world of none-Geni users.
It is only showing family I have added, it not showing past Gertrude Bones nee Woolley unless i type names in, it does not register them as ancestors as gaps apart are too great I suppose, other people have added my ancestors, it tells me the connection to them, even though I don't fully understand the interpretations, but would like to print out my family list of names, but does not add ant from distant ancestors