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Geni has a 1.4 star rating based on 5 customer reviews; consumers are mostly dissatisfied. Pros: large database. Cons: impossible to contact a human, zero degrees kelvin customer service, high price level. Geni reviews highlight repeated login and account access failures and billing concerns.

Key Takeaways for Future Customers

  • Expect potential subscription and billing hurdles; verify charges before renewing membership.
  • Back up any uploaded family tree data locally before using the service.
  • Prepare for slow or no direct customer service response; community forums may be primary support.

Negative Feedback / Risk Areas

  • Frequent customer complaints about password reset emails not arriving and inability to log in.
  • Billing and subscription issues, including unexpected charges and no live support for refunds or account problems.
  • Reports of account data changes and difficulty contacting human support.

Positive Feedback

Reviewers note a large genealogy database that can be useful for research.

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Dana C Zuz

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| map-marker Phillipsburg, New Jersey

This does not solve my issue! I want OUT of Geni!

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I have had no contact with Geni Customer Service. You cannot call or email. Trying to close account!

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Anonymous
map-marker Albuquerque, New Mexico

Communication not so good.

AI Highlights
  • - Login failed; password expired and reset link not received.
  • - Second email not accepted; user asks how to update password.

well, where is everything I just typed?

nice

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I try to log in; you say Password is expired; needs to be updated; you say enter your email addr; I do; you say you'll send a link; I wait; I try again; I wait, and after an hour of my life is gone I give up; but here I am, trying again.

My email addr w/ you is ABC; My ABC addr works fine everyday; but you cahn't send it; yes, blah, blah, it is not in spam, or in genealogy; in emergency situation, I give you another eMail addr; you don't accept it. Are you still working?

still in business? I used to think you were pretty good for all your requirements on sources, etc.

Hmmm. What next can I do to "update" my password?

User's recommendation: Don't ever upload ANY info before saving it on YOUR place/PC/backup!!

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Afua Vvn

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| map-marker Petaling Jaya, Selangor

I cannot enter geni.com

I HAVE BEEN A GENI CUSTOMER FOR 25 YEARS. SINCE I DID NOT LOG IN FOR OVER 3 MONTHS MY AC.PASSWORD WAS CANCELLED.

AS SUCH I COULD NOT GET INTO MY GENI ACCOUNT. YOU TOLD ME TO CHANGE THE PASSWORD BUT YOUR REPLY TO CHANGE TO MY NEW PASSWORD I COULD GET ALL AFTER TRYING SO MANY TIME. LOOK AT YOUR SPAM. BUT I DO NOT HAVE SPAM ON MY EMAIL.

PLEASE HELP ME TO CHANGE MY PASSWORD. nadhu@***.com is my email under which i use to enter geni.com.

User's recommendation: Always send replìes to my email.

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Marian C Wqb

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Missing siblings

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Include ALL siblings in a family...

Why did you leave out one of the daughters?

That is NOT giving correct information

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Barry W Xiz

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ZERO customer service

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AI Highlights
  • - Password expired; reset email not received.
  • - I can't access the account or data entered in the family tree.
  • - A 301 number exists but isn't answered.

Apparently, my password has expired, and I am supposed to receive an email to reset it. The email never arrives, so I cannot get into my account and have had to abandon it and all of the information inputted into the family tree.

There is a 301 number you can find if you investigate a bit, but they never pick up that phone either. Next time I'm in Los Angeles, I will go visit them in person and give them the last remaining piece of my mind.

Cons:
  • Zero degrees kelvin customer service

Preferred solution: An email to reset my password.

User's recommendation: Do not expect any response from Customer Service whatsoever, ever, ever.

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Sira Cln

Horrible customer service and racist curators

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AI Highlights
  • - Renewal charge at night triggered a fraud alert.
  • - No live support; no phone or chat; forum is the only contact.
  • - Alleges biased curators.

I've been with Jeannie for several years, I am on automatic bill pay for renewal every year, Genie attempted to do a renewal charge on my credit card in the middle of the night, and in the middle of the night my credit card company sent me a possible fraud message and wanted me to approve it. But of course I was sleeping.

So I had to call my card company when I got up and saw the message, they said that Genie In addition to the normal fee that they charge, also did a bizarre red flag $1 purchase, which set off their fraud alerts. So my credit card company canceled the charge. They told me that I have to contact Jeannie and do the charge all over again. But there is no one at Jeannie to contact.

There's no one to contact even online, they make you post your question in a community center in hopes that some other member will answer the question. But this is an internal matter, which fellow members can't handle. There's no phone number to talk to a live Human being, there's no online chat to talk to a person to deal with this, and now I have a warning in my account saying that my subscription will expire tomorrow if I don't renew. I tried doing it manually, but there is not an option to put the sale through.

There's only an upgrade tab. There's no way to make the purchase, so to speak. And I have no one to talk to whatsoever. Furthermore, their curators are horrifically racist.

Whenever somebody creates a historic profile for an ancestor, the curators take it upon themselves to decide, based on their own private opinion, whether that person actually existed, despite they're being records showing their existence. And because most of these curators are Fascist atheists, they have now, since the start of the Palestinian war and attack on israel, have locked and segregated the profile Pages for all of the biblical patriarchs, disconnecting every Arab and every Hebrew from their family roots, literally denouncing them as ever having existed despite their being 66 books, by independent authors, comprising the historical record of Israel in the bible, and the Quran itself for the muslims. These people at Jeannie are allowing their religious atheist bias to Cloud their judgment. We are paying hundreds of dollars for this service, but we are at the mercy of these bigoted curators who are going to dictate to us who lived and who didn't live simply because they pick and choose what historical records to acknowledge base on their atheist beliefs.

I cannot imagine anything more anti-Semitic than to completely blockade Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Sarah and the 12 tribes of Israel and Ishmael the father of the Arabs and Moses and all of the other Patriarchs so that no one can show their connection to them. It's criminal, these people should be legally punished for this.

User's recommendation: Beware!!!

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Is it Geni or Jeannie?

Autry Qdr

Kid, nothng racial about this. It is all in your head.

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Anonymous
map-marker Brooklyn, New York

Unable to log in

AI Highlights
  • - Password expired; renewal email sent, but not yet received.
  • - I spent over an hour logging in to upgrade Family Geni.

A message is telling me that my password had expired and that an email with renewal was sent to me... Am yet to see it...

extremely time consuming and frustrating...

I was hoping to upgrade my Family Geni sight, spent over an hour to try to log in...Looking forward to hearing back from you. Thank you

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Peter B Zhs

I CANNOT ACCESS MY ACCOUNT AND THEIR SOLUTIONS DONT WORK

AI Highlights
  • - Joined GENI after urging to upload family history.
  • - Address password not sent; paywall blocks access; data changed; GENI owned by foreign company.

I was strongly urged to join GENI and upload my family history, which I did. I did not visit the site very frequently and only recently discovered that my address requires a new password, but they do not send the password.

I have created a new account but find that much is blocked by a paywall and some person(s) have made changes in the data I entered.

I cannot reach anyone and have just discovered that GENI has been taken over by a large, foreign owned company. I am very unhappy with GENI.

Pros:
  • Large database
Cons:
  • Impossible to contact a human being

Preferred solution: Access to my account under my real name

User's recommendation: Be very careful with this company, I think they only want money.

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Morgane Yrj

Can't log on

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AI Highlights
  • - Email address flagged invalid, but it's the one Geni uses.
  • - E-assistant asked for my credit card to fix a bug; a human could help in about 3 minutes.

says my email address is no good but it is the same email address used by Geni to send me my latest Geni info. Fixing the problem would probably take 3 minutes if I could talk to someone. I tried to work with your E-assistant but then you wanted my credit card number to fix a bug in your system

User's recommendation: Signicantly improve your customer service.....

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Salli Whd

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Claimed I signed up for a fee without telling me first

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AI Highlights
  • - It helped find clues to a lost relative.
  • - It asks for name & parents' names; two weeks free, then charges.
  • - Documentation isn't clear enough to justify fees.

I had used geni.com in the past. The documentation depended on the person providing the input, but it was useful in finding clues to a "lost" relative.

This time it said to put in my name and my parents' names. Then it said congratulations I had free use for two weeks and then it would charge me for a membership.

If it had said anything about a membership BEFORE I "signed in", I never would have done so. The documentation isn't good enough to justify paying a fee.

User's recommendation: Don't sign in - the documentation comes from the poster. For free that might be useful. Not for money.

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