Profile revisions are a vital part of the Geni experience. When you collaborate on the world family tree, you’ll be editing the information other people entered. Just the same, other family members and collaborators will be working on data you put into the tree. Keeping track of the revision history will make it clear what was changed, and who changed it.
To look at the revisions on any given profile, go to the Revisions tab.
Each revision is timestamped so you know when the change was made and by who. Click “view” to see what information was changed in a handy table (this launches a window that lets you view what has been changed).
When the window launches, you’ll see four columns: Field, Current, Change, and Previous. This is a very easy way to visualize the revisions. You can click on the arrows in the heading of the “Change” and “Previous” columns to view more changes and previous fact values. A green cell indicates that the field was changed during the revision and a red cell indicates that a field is not the same as the most current revision.
If you have permission to edit the profile, you can easily revert a change if you need to. Simply select the value you want to use (which will highlight the cell in yellow) and click “Use Selected Values” button.
You can click on “Back to revisions list” to return to the list of revisions for the profile. From here, you can also choose which revisions you wish to compare or restore a previous value.
You can click the “About Me” tab to review a list of revisions and compare the changes for the profile’s About section. The text highlighted in green indicates the text that was changed in the revision, while text highlighted in red indicates text that is not the same as the current revision.
The "About Me" revisions can also be accessed from the profile’s Overview tab. Simply click “history” at the right of the About section. If the About section has been added in multiple languages, you can see the revisions for each language by selecting a language from the dropdown.
Updated: April 2, 2026
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