Locked and wrong

Ready to add 20 documents baptisms, DN's ,Marriages but just going to lave it.
WHY bother to go to the effort .

Wish we al had LOCK 🔐 on our profiles we manage to keep all the blatant errors out !!

Don't think any of my entries are locked. Know of people in my tree linked to Xhariep, but unsure who you are referring to, Phillip....

You can send a message to the curator/manager. And then if they don't answer you can write to Geni and they will unlock.

I have the same problem with 18th century ancestors with modern day place names for events. Then I can;t correct it because locked and curator does not reply to messages.
IF EVERYBODY AGREES TO USING PLACE NAMES AS THEY WERE AT THE TIME OF THE EVENT THEN NOTHING NEEDS TO BE LOCKED. This is common logic.

I have even made mistakes with dates I have tryed to change them with no luck

---Then I can't correct it because locked and curator does not reply to messages.

My own experience as well !

Daughter of Stephanus Gerhardus Griesel, b3c3d4 and Elsie Margaretha Griessel (Vilonel)
Wife of Willem Jacobus Pienaar
Mother of Jan Hendrik Pienaar; Elsie Margaretha Pienaar; Stephanus Gerhardus Pienaar; Johanna Catharina Pienaar; Cornelia Jacoba Pienaar and 5 others
Sister of Francois Philippus Jacobus Griesel, b3c3d4e2; Stephanus Gerhardus Griesel, b3c3d4e1; Dorothea Adriana Griesel, b3c3d4e4; Hendrina Johanna Griesel, b3c3d4e3; Abraham Jacobus Griesel, b3c3d4e6; Jan Gabriel Griesel, b3c3d4e7; Johannes Jacobus Griesel, b3c3d4e8 and Jan Gabriël Griessel

Francois Philippus Jacobus Griesel

Born 1835 in Fauresmith , Xhariep ?

his father born 1825 !
June Barnes ??

All siblings here similar !!
Was going to add sources baptisms , etc but why bother at all !!!

Henry Ogle

Sibling exact same person on GENI !!

Jan Hendrik Vorster -- look at new proposed names

Middelburg , Transvaal now after 1994 Mpumalanga , South Africa
but what if it was 1897 ?
Middelburg , ZAR them Transvaal colony after 1902 then "^%$ after 1910 then Union of South Africa aft then Republic of South Africa then Mpumalangs , South Africa

Just adds to confusion !!

Reminds me of that Victorian Toilet cartoon ---

So many errors are generated through merges ?

But a merge can not then LOCK wrong information that is not possible !

I no longer accept or merger details. I look at the information sent check out on my own and if I find it correct then add it to my private site on my own computer. To many people just accept anything they see if they want it to fit. I am always willing to look at info but no longer add to public trees.

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PROFILES AS ABOVE
Good Day Everyone,
Sadly I would like to know how this has happened ,As I don`t know & haven`t any idea how this has accrued My advice is to Ask Geni for help to solve the problem .
I wish I was more familiar with all the ins & out of solving this for you
Sincerely Wendy Bell

GENI
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PROFILES AS ABOVE
Good Day Everyone,
Sadly I would like to know how this has happened ,As I don`t know & haven`t any idea how this has accrued My advice is to Ask Geni for help to solve the problem .
I wish I was more familiar with all the ins & out of solving this for you
Sincerely Wendy Bell

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Agree. GENI desperately need to fix these issues. Too many problems with their site

Person duplicated, some dates included in duplication. Impossible to merge duplication?

Jan Hough -- that is what we are told to do but does not really work that way.

I agree. For example , Ihave black on white ,pen on paper names spelt correctly of the Radloff family yet when I want to correct names or dates , I get nowhere. Something needs to change. As a direct granddaughter I should know the spellings instead of some distant relations :(

I do agree that this is a problem! There is information about names that are also incorrect, that have previously been loaded by other people, often with less knowledge about the family, and it is not possible to correct these errors, even if one has documentary evidence to the contrary! Could there not be a means of challenging such errors, if one has proof?

Procrastination
Get excuse 7 out of my box of MY opinions.
Accuse Phillip yet again of being hostile and it's all resolved.

Getting a bit tired of that feeble attempt to ignore what is being said here. Just immature reasoning by someone obviously very insecure.

Rather focus on the issue here than just trying to fall back on excuses and playing the victim.
Everyone try hard on Geni and gets frustrated when their attempts to add and correct information is just thwarted . Brushed aside by some that believe they can call others hostile and their OPINIONS are the final say.

I do agree. Once a profile is locked, then mistakes cannot be rectified.

Another problem is the profiles that are made "Private".

This not only applies to members of a family that had already passed away years ago, but also of family members that is still alive.

I can understand if a living family member does not want to display his/her date of birth, but what is the aim of a Family Tree if everybody's information is set to "Private"

This is the reason why I no longer use Geni for building my tree. Too many people seem to have access to my tree although i have put it as private . LDS same problems accrue 😢

Anyone paying attention to what people are saying on this discussion or are they all also just hostile and aggressive ?

We all feel more control and less control on profiles a problem it appears to me .
How to address this is the ussue the priority.
TO just call us names ,hostile or aggressive because we are challenging the status quo and dictatorial curators is NOT going to solve anything !!!

Phillipp is correct to bring up this problem. It needs to be addressed because a lot of frustration is caused when a profile cannot be corrected because it is locked. Could Curators be a little more "user friendly" regarding locked profiles.

Curators perform a vital function and I am sure that they also get very frustrated when having to correct the same errors over and over again. They are volunteers.

A "Caveat" on documents. I have many examples of different documents referring to the same person, with different spellings.

I apologise for the above, I agree to what Jan Neelmeyer has written. I want to know if there is a possibility for GENI to appoint curators that are equipped ( experience / knowledgeable) with the correct information at hand, to fix it. But there must be some seal, that any "other" person cannot change it or overwrite it.