Dear Matthew,
I looked at the profile and i do have a few remarks,
I do agree though with your remark about "plagiarised info" by Louis Heyman. Never mind Louis he considers only his sources to be relevant, accurate and reputed and everybody else's fake, plagiarized and unacceptable. Louis' comments will not help you improve your contributions.
However what you mentioned are not considered sources
in the strict genealogical sense of the term . To qualify as valid a genealogical source an item :
- has to be a document
- is preferably made by an official source ( birth, marriage, death certificates from official registry or parish records; passport info, registration documents by official instances electoral lists, adress registries, deed polls adoption documents, court decisions, prison records, military documents etc.)
- taken preferably form an official archive or derived thereof like microfilm copies of the above documents in the Family search archive , and the references to those sources form official indexes
- other official acts such as notorial acts, property deeds, incorporation document, legation documents, charters, nobility registers etc
as a secondary source official announcements in newspapers like London gazette, or Lloyds, shipping (passenger) manifests
as a third source public sources like newspaper articles, or obituaries, rememberance cards invitation or private records such as who's who or similar, club records etc.
What i would expect for the St John B V Harmsworth profile you've made as proper sourcing
- birth certificate referenced like this
"England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2FGG-ZF5 : 1 October 2014), St John B V Harmsworth, 1912; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, Brighton, Sussex, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England."
- a death certificate referenced like this
"England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVZ8-GD92 : 4 September 2014), St John Bernard V Harmsworth, Jun 1995; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death Registration, Kensington & Chelsea, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England."
that he was on a 1930 passenger manifest at New York Immigration like this
"New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24FC-GS7 : 12 March 2018), St John B Harmsworth, 1930; citing Immigration, New York, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.)."
that he was married in 1937 in westminster
"England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8F-7XFD : 8 October 2014), St John B V Harmsworth and null, 1937; from “England & Wales Marriages, 1837-2005,” database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing 1937, quarter 3, vol. 1A, p. 1495, Westminster St. Margaret, London, England, General Register Office, Southport, England. "
Then instead of the peerage website you refer to the original source S37 Burke's
as its on the source page : "Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. ( taken from Peerage-website [http://www.thepeerage.com/s1.htm#s37] ) "
( and idem ditto for the other sources )
You can now research further what Burke's Peerage actually states about ST John B V Harmsworth and his predessors, and search for primary sources to underpin the Burke's statements
The Geni website can only serve as a research note what people you have to create in relation to the person in the profile
Please I'm not sure how you are related to This Harmsworth person but i think you should work on your own ancestry first to learn what info you need to acquire, and how to refernce the sources to make a half decent profile about an ancestor whom you cannot provide a first hand biography for.
Good luck if you need any assistance with creating profiles just contact me via a personal message / email
derek