Dalton P.

After using WikiTree for a few months, I attempted to join the Data Doctors group and was contacted via email by a woman insisting that I needed to participate in a 2-to-3 hour Zoom video conference with her. When I politely declined the Zoom meeting, she became more insistant and even wrote that I was being "dismissive" of her by declining the meeting. When I checked Zoom, I learned that it would cost me $149 to use their video conferencing software, and I once again declined the Zoom meeting. After that, she rejected my request to join the Data Doctors group, stating that I "need to learn more about primary sources for [my] managed profiles, especially those that are Pre-1700."

Immediately following her rejection of me in Data Doctors, I was contacted my a mentor who stated that I had been flagged for "help with Pre-1700 sourcing" - the exact same thing that I was rejected from Data Doctors for. That same mentor then wrote that he had already seen my genealogy work and "thought it excellent," and he praised me as being "clearly a super-experienced genealogist." He also wrote that he will "close the MIR after a week or so and nothing more needs to be done."

Well, that mentor never closed the MIR and I was blocked from logging into my account back in December of 2022. According to WikiTree, my account was locked for failure to communicate with the mentor though I had email proof that I did communicate with him. WikiTree also wrote that I was flagged for mentoring because "someone was concerned about my use of 'not recommended' HTML tags when editing profiles" even though I don't use HTML tags. This reason is entirely different from the one that the mentor gave me.

It took 9 days of bouncing emails back and forth to WikiTree before they assigned another mentor to me, writing that I only had to respond to her to get the block lifted from my account. I did respond to her and the block was lifted.

I was under the impression that all that needed to be done had been done since the first mentor wrote that "nothing more needs to be done" in regards to the reason my account was flagged for mentoring. However, a month later I am locked out of my account once again. This time, WikiTree wrote that I was locked out because I failed to write to the new mentor every 7 days!

They just lock you out of your account for absolutely no real or good reason.

As far as the information on the WikiTree site, I have seen dozens of profiles in my direct line where the information on WikiTree conflicts with information in historic records. There are even pages where the birth-marriage-death information in the header section conflicts with what is written in the bio and tagged with sources. I certainly wouldn't trust about half of what I have found on WikiTree to be close to accurate.