Accuracy of Geni trees

I believe the accuracy of genealogical information on Geni is entirely unreliable. I find a man marrying a man and giving birth to himself!

No evidence is ever presented to link one generation to another. Is Geni a sham?

Am I alone in this observation?

( Thomas Everit Averett Icn_world
Birth: 1649
, Chowan, North Carolina, USA
Immediate Family:
Hide

Show

Husband of Thomas Everit
Father of Thomas Everit
Added by: Kathryn Smith on October 13, 2009
Managed by: Kathryn Jean Smith

Hello George.
Geni is a *collaborative* family tree. It means that anyone, *anyone* can put whatever he likes on Geni.
It is similar to Wikipedia. On Geni there is a team of curators that can do some changes on public profiles, but as long as one puts wrong data on his private profiles - there is almost nothing to do.
I'm a geni user like you, and when I saw some "Harry Potter" profiles, I decided that it's OK unless they are connected to real people, you can join Geni project about "fake profiles"- http://www.geni.com/projects/Fake-or-Pretend-Profiles-on-geni-com
and you can report profiles as fake

George Harcourt

If you can cut and paste the link to the profile in question into this discussion, someone can look into it. It's not an area I curate in, but one of the curators may know the family and have source information or be able to find it.

The Big Tree gets better over time as more people work on it. In the case of public and especially historical profiles/families, curators and users look for primary or secondary sources to verify the data. It's a large tree and not all areas have even begun to be curated and most are a work in progress. However there are a lot of pros to this collaborative genealogy endeavor. I was able to find ancestors - and correct and curated ones - immediately that I was unaware of.