Removal of incorrect My Heritage References

Started by Private User on Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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Re https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000034769527141
Max "Mksa" Peisner was born c1863 and died in Hungary 1907
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DY29-BJX?i=50

but numerous My Heritage trees state he died in the USA in 1964 and that incorrect info has been added to his Geni profile as if it were a factual source.
How can it be removed?
Regards Roy

As long as the profile is not marked with an "MP" you can edit the information about them. Usually I post a discussion on the profile with my objection to the data in the profile and wait a few days before I go in and change things. I've never heard back from anyone, and only once was the profile changed back after I corrected the info. (My one big issue with the family trees online: they are all "crowd sourced" so there's a lot of misinformation that never gets corrected.)

Thanks R D C.
Although I was able to change the actual death dates on the profile itself, it was how to actually remove the misleading links to an incorrect source on another website that I was having difficulty with. Is it because I was not the actual provider of that incorrect info?

Probably it's because you don't have a dual Geni/MyHeritage account. Apparently you have to sign up with both before you can remove incorrect links.

Curators, of course, have the tools to do it at will, though they seldom bother (too much else to do).

Private User you should be able to edit the sources, so just remove the incorrect information as a source
www.geni.com/media/proxy?media_id=6000000200393665821&size=large
Just remove the check for the date of death

You can also add a note for the incorrect info (to hopefully prevent other users to add it back)

No there's little AI involved in the search results here on Geni (or anywhere else online). The computer is going to serve you up any link that matches the criteria that the software engineer wrote into the program. The genealogist use to have to read thru the whole written record to find one reference to their ancestor. Now that a lot of those records have been digitized the computer can serve up matches for the name we're looking for, but we still have to decide if that record actually refers to the person we're looking for. If you don't like those links that send you to the wrong source I can only suggest you stop clicking those links.

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