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Joanne

11/18/2023 at 4:03 PM

I don't want the entire tree private. Just Aunt Juliana.
My mother who also is on the tree / account is her Grand niece. She is 80 years old and I believe we all can show respect. If you want we can meet up with you in Rindge?
All I asked was for a shot term of private status because we ran into issues that can't be disclosed.
If you can't respect the wish for short term then maybe in this in case we create a duplicate. Disconnect this Juliana from the Gerulskis family line.
It's a shame you can not reach out to me privately to discuss this to work out a compromise.
Kind regards,
Joanne

Emily Kent Marget C

11/18/2023 at 4:39 PM

Private User - Unfortunately, for the other manager, Geni is likely not the right platform for them. My Heritage may be a better fit for them.

Geni is a collaborative database. Once someone has died, and a few years have passed since that date, it is customary for the profile to be made public. Geni is also one very large tree of which our individual family trees are branches.

Look at my own profile. Because of my ancestry, a profile was added for me by someone outside of my immediate family before I joined Geni. (Another user loaded profiles for every person found in one of the two massive Washington genealogies. I had to battle with them to get some of my relatives unclaimed.)

Joanne

11/18/2023 at 4:48 PM

Emily, I asked for a short term based for privacy status out of respect for my mother. Apparently, you don't know how many times I have reached out to "Kaze" and once again I wrote above that it is a shame one doesn't private message one to work out a compromise. One who manages a profile can see the profile either in the private or public status.
To assume one is in the wrong platform of searching for relatives really goes to the relative looking for a relative to say.

Emily Kent Marget C

11/18/2023 at 6:49 PM

Joanne - You are correct that I do not know why you want your aunt to remain private for now. (Nor do I want to know the reason why.)
Kaze said that you wanted the entire tree to be private. That is what triggered my response. (I am not trying to get in the middle of a family argument.)
If it is just your aunt that you need to be private (for private reasons), fine. Because she was born after 1873, the curators cannot touch her. We would need permission from all managers to touch her.

Joanne

11/18/2023 at 7:25 PM

Kaze was wrong about wanting the entire tree private. Kaze also ignored countless private discussions from me letting her know what was going on.
One day I hope I can put my entire tree here on Geni too to help people looking for relatives.
That's how it should be to everyone be on the same page working together but I have encountered lack of communication with disrespect and harassment from a few curators that made our decision of having relatives profiles vague description and private status. Just because I made a comment in their Facebook group page that I suddenly was put into by one of their administrators. Then recently had another issue develop that added to the private status. I used to love genealogy, my dad's side I have encountered many people who are descendants of Mayflower passengers early New England Settlers we actually worked together, shared reliable sources. Now, it is been stressful and not fun. 😔 Thank you

Private User

11/18/2023 at 9:24 PM

Re “ Once someone has died, and a few years have passed since that date, it is customary for the profile to be made public. ”

I must respectfully disagree. Everyone has different concepts of privacy and there are different laws in different countries,

Geni’s official guideline is outlined in a few places

https://www.geni.com/projects/Working-with-the-World-Tree/12429
- Geni's guidance is that profiles for people born in the past 150 years can be made private with no explanation necessary, however profiles for people born before that should be public.
https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229704447-What-profiles-are...
- Please note that profiles for persons born more than 150 years ago should be public, as these profiles will have hundreds or thousands of descendants and marking them private will create branches in the historical tree that many others will be unable to view or merge.

Joanne

11/18/2023 at 11:08 PM

Leanne, Juliana was born 133 years ago and died in 1975.

Private User

11/18/2023 at 11:43 PM

Yes - and as she was born under 150 years ago Geni’s official guidelines says that she can be private

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