Without reaching out to me, a Geni Pro recently chose to scrape 100 names off my family tree on another site (where I have successfully collaborated with many other relatives) and add the profiles onto Geni. When I reached out to find out the rationale, I was told "we are probably closely related." A common last name was offered, but no details to connect the dots. It's a common last name and there is no geographic overlap. Note that my tree includes extensive geographic and other info, which is why I have successfully connected with close and distant cousins. I understand the Pro's passion to create the universal tree, but alienating other genealogy researchers is, IMHO, not the way to go. When I reached out a second time to the Pro, there was no response.
Last year, I added some immediate family profiles onto Geni, and intended to add more when I had validated some additional details. Now because someone made the decision for me, I would like to become the manager of these 100+ profiles and remove this individual. Several critical errors were made because this person chose not to contact me in advance - and I feel responsible for fixing them.
I was under the impression that profile managers were to be close relatives. Geni shows that this individual is "your second great aunt's second great aunt's husband's great niece's husband's niece's husband's aunt's husband's uncle's wife's second great nephew.". Not exactly close!
Is there a way for me to be assigned to all the profiles in bulk, and to remove this other individual? How do you suggest I proceed so that I can fix some of the errors and add additional names and info? This situation is creating much more work for me, and I'm also annoyed at the lack of communication/collaboration from the Geni Pro - who obviously feels it is a "right" to take information from a password-protected site that was researched and created by someone else.
I very much appreciate your guidance.