ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Ann Vermeulen (Ramsey)

Here is another site I got my info from

https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kwartierstaat-johannes-zijlstra/I10...

Plus one of the managers of the profiles related to her works for the Historical Society in the Netherlands So I will take his word for it before anyone else or other tree over the internet.

I did add Aaltje Ebbes too but later after redoing my tree on Ancestry.com , found out I was wrong.

Dorothy Smid,
Ok Dorothy :-).

could someone help me with this person ...Bauke Sierds

I merged this profile 3 different times as the same person, but the one that is married to Taetske Hessels should be Hendrik Sierds
Birth ABT 1665 • Oostermeer, Tietjerksteradeel (Friesland)

Death AFT 1726 • Oostermeer, Tietjerksteradeel (Friesland)

Baucke Sierds and Hendrik Sierds are brothers

I un-merge the siblings ... check it out, Dorothy.

it looks good Dan. But the only thing that is wrong is the relation calculator. For some reason It's not showing my relationship right for many of my "Biological" great grandparents all over the tree. I did try to use the "pushpin" method but its still not working. I'm not sure what to do about that. If you look at the pedigree view it all looks right.

Something strange happens when I calculate under statistics the average life expectancy of ancestors or blood relatives. All birthdates marked as before YEAR gets calculated as minus -6231 or something and after YEAR is taken in the calculations as + 6231 or something. While before YEAR or after YEAR often means we are uncertain to a range of a couple of years.
As I am curious for average life spans, is there something that can be done about this? I would like to get the averages more realistic?

Dorothy Jame Smid: re: ...not showing my relationship right ...

All your great-grands look fine to me; give it time <grin>.

Private - re: use of Before / After

That is an issue with the statistics.

If a likely range is known (or can be reasonably estimated, then use the BETWEEN (instead of before / after).

Note that the order of those "between" dates do not have to be chronological. That is, you can put the "most likely" date first, and then the other date in the second field.

Thanks Dan Cornett that sounds reasonable. Still the choice made in the calculations for "Before" seems to me way out..and could be narrowed to a standard number of say 50 years...

Please merge

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000003613668838?fsession_id=...

Private User, done

regarding Dieuwke Klaases

I added her parents but I was wrong... could someone please remove Klaas Sijdses Wierstra and Johanna Petrus Piersma as her parents please..

Dorothy Smid,
I disconnected Dieuwke Klaases Wierstra from those parents for you.
Since you are a Geni-Pro, all you need to do is:
1-go to the basic infomation profile page.
2-from there you can go to the relationships page,
2-scroll down to the bottom of the page.
3-put a check next to her parents.
4-click 'remove'
5-click save

(This is where you can also disconnect husbands and wives)
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(The other way to do the above is from 'tree view'. You first click 'edit' on her node. From there you can go to the 'basic' information page and then to the 'relationships' page. Then you follow what I typed above)

Thanks Ann.

I am having a hard time trying to merge these 2 profiles as the same person
Sybrant Doytthies Bonga

Sybrant Doytthies Bonga

Dorothy Smid
Done
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000039598700491

Please help with this profile. She has two fathers: Per Jonsson is right and Per Jønsson is wrong.

Anna Persdotter

Private User, Fixat och städat.
/Bo-Arne

No manager profiles and not abandoned tree. First time I've seen this.
William Sleigh

@Bo-Arne Östborg, Tack så mycket! : )
/Lina

Hello. how can I undo the changes made in someone else's family tree? Roll back the changes does not work, because family tree does not belongs to me. Necessary to cancel the the changes made by me for 1/25/2016

Сергей Игоревич Покудин Добро пожаловать в Geni!
which profile is it where changes need to be undone?

Ard van Bergen All profiles that I mistakenly replaced / added for 1/25/2016

Сергей Игоревич Покудин
Pls check
Ard van Bergen
Sorry should have mentioned I was working on it

Private User

I suggest you go to her profile, scroll down a little, click on Discussion tab and start a discussion about this

Angus Wood-Salomon yes I had seen that, so decided not to interfere, but I don't understand what was wrong with the merges by Сергей Игоревич Покудин
The ones that I checked looked like perfect duplicates to me

Me too, just following orders....lol

Thank you Angus :)

Angus Wood-Salomon Ard van Bergen
After my association profiles appeared data conflicts. So I decided that mistake.

Hope this is the right place to log a complaint/s of sorts...

Smartcopy... from a person that spends 40 to 50 hours a week on genealogy this new app if you want to call it that is like a virus... ive personally have had to go fix an ancestors details as this smartcopy is such an easy way to destro a profile that has been found to be correct with documents to just another thumbsuck profile... browsing the last couple days I have seen a couple old profile "revised" by smartcopy where prolfiles now have more than one child with same names and spouses and children... where surnames now have letters added, dates changed.. this is not on...

Due to merging with sister and brother sites many people are resorting to making old profiles of ancestors private which were once public... Im talking of profiles between 1790 and 1900... people are now scarwd of creating profiles on Geni. Using myself as an example... I am spammed by My Heritage with apparent "possible merges" and or similar people .. opening the links I fing my own pictures, own info, own profiles being sold to me via My Heritage... that is not on... as I said this is creating a society of people changing profiles to pvt to stop this... I have tried contacting managers to no avail...

Changing info on a profile... cabt it be arranged that info can onky be changed on profiles with the permission of managers or Curators... even when it comes to adding siblings or children... as said before the info is becoming really unreliable to say the least...

End of my rant...

Stephen (and others...):

There are two aspects of 'protecting' a profile's basic information:

1) Provide Sources. Both on the Sources tab and information in the About. Often folks complain about changes, but there is nothing to document what the correct values are. (Sidebar: many changes can be found in the Revisions tab and 'reverted' to an earlier value ... with the caveat that merges will not retain the 'history' of both profiles -- only one of them.)

2) Ask for the profiles to be protected with a Master Profile designation ... and be specific about which fields are well-documented and should be locked, if you deem it necessary. You can make such requests at this other 'sticky' Discussion: ("Curators: My profile is good enough to be a Master Profile!"... currently here: http://www.geni.com/discussions/142974)

It isn't necessarily to request each profile individually; one can provide a 'key link' and request (for example) all spouses, parents, and children. One should make sure that duplicates are merged and data conflicts are resolved.

Curators are interested in the correctness of the World Family Tree; everyone has a part in making that happen.