Saturday, August 2, 2025

Review: The Pettiness of Wikitree Moderators


 The other day 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! 

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