Getting it right !

make a master profile for the chap? then add the correkt info on the grey area

I dontlnow if this is about wrong birth dates. But i am one of the poor souls that are stuck with the wrong birth date and to change my date is almost impossible. I only have the proff of my birth from the hospital which apparently not enough. You need details from where you where babtized which i dot have and also the register where you went to school. The schools only keep data for 5 years. I have been trying to chance it since i have been 16 years.

Cindy -- part of what I am saying .Often even on documents dates and info not 100%.
Your problem Goverment Home Affairs a good start.
I do not have a baptism document as well and my birth 1958 only registered in SA 1959.
My grandfather and his siblings never baptised and birth dates on his father's DN not correct as well.

Perhaps not everyone is not as lucky as others in obtaining information, i.e death notices, birth certificates. I am unable to prove where my mother was born, in South Africa, although I live in South Africa. I also can no longer afford MyHeritage, or any of the other genealogy sites. Perhaps if you corrected all the mistakes on the different sites, it would help everyone. That is what I used to do. Happy genealogying. Moyra

Hilde, I agree. Master copy, but suppose one can only do this if you are on the paid site? If not then it would be great if you could explain how to do it for Geni dummies. Thanks Moyra

Moyra -- a lot of people on Geni that will always help you.
I find information everywhere on the Internet that often needs confirmation but amazing what one can find.
Master Copy or Master Profiles only curators can create but lots of curators ready to help everyone.
Ask Judith SH Meyer here on discussion.
But we as ordinary or PRO members must add information that we confirm and check that we transcribe correctly .
It is so very easy to get it completely wrong.

Example Henry Crawfiord Berry did he die 17 May or 18 May Moyra ?

Think the solution I was thinking of is getting any information correct when you add it to a profile .
Check any documentation , is it 9 November or 11 September.
Found a 7 year old getting married yesterday -- 70 incorrecrly transcribed as 7 and d.o.b then changed accordingly.
Is it Jan or Jacob? ANNIE or Amy ?
Not just to MP or lock a profile.
Check dates ,spelling any information as it is consequently
copied from GENI and a rippple effect of incorrect information spreads

Oppermanskraal incorrectly transcribed as Missermanskraal and suddenly all over the place .
Butterfly 🦋 flapping it's wings-----

Phiipp I have done much the same. Even Family Search indexing. I have changed those but some of those have areas that cannot be edited, so there I am staring at a blatant incorrect transcription and I can do nothing to change it. A unique torture. Here is one of the most ridculous ones, a place of birth in SA just happens to have a similar name in the Phillipines, so guess what my relative had a quick trip to the Phillipines UGGH!! And it isn't editable.

Sharon -- a free holidayin the Philippines

My grt grandfather died Chicago ,Illinois buried Salina . I assumed Salinas ,California but it was Salina Township , Kankakee County ,Illinois .

King of Prussia , USA is not in Europe .
How many people bother to check or confirm place of birth , marriage or death .
Probability and possibility

At this point in the scheme of things we will just need to change those that we come across. That is my philosophy. If I find an inconsistancy I check it and see if I can resolve it. I try to keep my part of the tree free from duplicates and blatant errors. But it is a full time job to go through the entire tree, so I do what I can when I find stuff I fix it. Last night spent a couple of hours joining two profiles and fixing the related profiles on Family Search. I add the source documents to the profiles to prove my work. It's the best I can do and I think if those of us who care do that for the ones we come across, very soon we will have reduced the errors remarkably.

I think the size of GENI now would require a workforce of employed people the size of Amazon to fix all the problems. So we will just have to plug away at our own pieces and related pieces, fix what you find when you are able.

This specific profile on Geni from 2007 with incorrect information.
14 years ?
All that time did not one person bother to look at actual documentation to confirm information.
11th or eleventh clearly written on documents .
Not a result of a bad merge