Not free as advertised... 14 February 2013 Reviewer: Unhappy from New Zealand
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Only free for very basic data entry, as far as I can see. To do any research and link to others costs money. Fair enough if that's what was advertised.
At one point I found some unknown person had some correct but very incomplete information about my grandparents, which I could access if I paid up. A few minutes later, doing a search under the names of those same grandparents it said there were no matches. Needless to say, they're not getting my money.
Not easy to delete your information if you don't want to continue, either, so, given the privacy warnings in other reviews - if you don't want information out there, be warned that entering it may place it at risk, even if you try to remove it.
On the other hand, it was easy to change the birth order of siblings, unlike some sites.
In summary, I would not recommend Geni to a friend.
