The Dishonesty & Pettiness of Wikitree Moderators

UPDATE: I recently discovered that the Wikitree Relationship Finder, located at www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Relationship, which had been available without logging in, now requires users to be logged in, in order to use it.

As of February 20, 2026, their Connection Finder at www.wikitree.com/wiki/Special:Connection , and Wikitree Plus , at plus.wikitree.com/default.htm still work without being logged in.

Original Post:  The other day (prior to August 2, 2025) I discovered that at least one Wikitree Moderator was even more dishonest than I would previously have supposed. I plugged my father's Wikitree ID into the Wikitree Relationship Finder to determine his relationship to several men surnamed Rutherford, and it told me that the Rutherford profiles/IDs did not exist. I Googled their names and dates of birth and death, and quickly discovered that their Wikitree profiles and the IDs I had used did exist. By further experimentation, I quickly discovered that only my father's Wikitree ID seems to be effected. To hide the ruse, I was able to look up his relationship to his forefathers one or two generations "upstream." How petty and DISHONEST!

The purpose of a genealogical website should be to share the TRUTH - not outright lies. To tell me that those Rutherford profiles/IDs did not exist were outright lies.

Wikitree Moderators, you should be ashamed of yourselves! 

UPDATE:  As of August 13, 2025, plugging my father's Wikitree ID into the Wikitree Relationship Finder seems to work again.