ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Priscilla Grant

Got it (only 16 Priscilla Grants!).

Since you have a "follow" on her, could you have copied the link from your own profile page, "following" module, which is under statistics?

I am already trying to help Lalita and have asked for details

Thank you Jadra. Much appreciated.

Erica

Thank you for the work you've done on this! As far as merging those 2 Elizabeths you mention, neither one of those was created by me, so I don't think I'm in a place to say merge them. Being new to this, I'm afraid I don't know the ramifications of merging!

Scary isn't it. I remember the day, long ago, so long I can barely remember, when I took a deep breath and dived into my first merge. I didn't break the tree. :).

You just keep building and documenting for now. There are goodies in the Mays tree, if you go backwards in time, but those profiles need more narrative.

I thought this might be a good place to enter this information about some of the things a Basic User is not able to do and may need to request a Curator to do if they don't have a Pro User involved in their tree to help them.

I think the curators will eventually see more requests for help from the Basic Users, it may be after the shock of finding that they can't do much with the earlier profiles that they entered then to place information and documentation, resolve the data conflicts, and Delete profiles. Or else the Basic User will just give up, abandon and no longer use Geni.com.

These profiles that have Basic Users as managers will eventually have to have merges done and the parent conflict issue resolved after the merge, some do not have any Pro User managers. They possibly will be able to request by send the link that is shown when they try to request a merge or by giving the link to the profile or the tree view and giving the information for which is correct.
When a Basic user tries to link or request a merge in the tree it will show them the two profile comparisons but then just takes them to the "Pay for Pro screen" and does not link the profiles, or request a merge, if they try to resolve the parent conflict, it says they are not allowed (it does not make a difference if they Collaborate). I guess the Pro Users will have some problems with merges also if they are requesting a merge with a Basic User they do not Collaborate with, they seem to be able to stack/request the merge but the Basic User is unable to do anything about it except request to collaborate and then have the Pro User do the merging. If the Basic User has given up and there is no response the Pro User will have to resort to a Curator.
These merges may entail several generations and outward family groups.
Should we request that they submit each as a separate merge?

It's easier to group and go through a list.

I can't do anything without links to profiles, in profile view, the google link is fine. If you follow a profile it will be on your own profile page; copy, paste into the message

Dear Curators,
Not sure how to get this out of my conflicting data inbox:

http://www.geni.com/merge/resolve/6000000000921311472

It has locked fields so it won't go away.
Thanks,
Jessie German

How about now, Jessica?

Thanks, Remi!

Dear Curator Gods and Goddesses,

Here is another issue that keeps popping up in my tree conflict inbox. I've never been able to deal with it because this is not my area of expertise (I'm more Cheevers and Sweetsers) but it's now getting much worse.

http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000001212798324?resolve=6...

There are way too many mix ups in this pot of soup.
Thanks,
Jessie German

Jessica Marie German, I have Ensign John Pierce tidied up for you and will work on building the profile. How many sets of parents can one kid have? Especially ones born after you? Sheesh.

You're doing great work in the tree, by the way! :) Thanks for staying on top of things.

(Erica Howton, he's a Woburn-ite if you want to curate. Looks like you're already working on Elizabeth Pierce, his mother.)

Hello,

I have a similar mixup with Samuel P Jacobs and have tried messaging the person that appears to have entered the other names.

http://www.geni.com/family-tree#6000000011273505647

Everything I have has his parents as William Jacobs and Ann (Peake) Jacobs.

Thank you
Roger Jacobs

Thanks, Ashley!

Roger Jacobs

Roger I have removed thoe extra set of parents for Samuel Priestly Jacobs
in this tree
http://www.geni.com/family-tree#6000000011173574642

Would you check one of his wives Lydia Jacobs
She was 50 years younger than him..

Thank you Angus,

I will see if I can find a date that makes more sense, perhaps I should leave that blank for now?

Jessica Marie German, do you want to sort out the children to make sure they're all accurate, or should I do that? Let me know. He was so entangled with other Pierces that the children might be off.

Ashley,
I'd prefer that you or someone more familiar than me with the Pierces do it. I just haven't done much research there. I got hooked up to most of that through merges.
Thanks,
Jessie German

Not a problem! I'll put it on my to-do list.

It looked to me like the problem was not Lydia Groves so much as the parents of her spouse: Samuel Priestly Jacobs.

I think I sorted out a number of those ancestor branches (hopefully correctly!) -- there were several "impossible" relationships (parents born after their children) that looked to be the result of incorrect merges of similar names between parents & children and spouses, but without dates on one set of the merged profiles.

There are still some ambiguities & conflicts remaining within those ancestors, but I didn't see any info there to guide their resolution. I also did *not* attempt to resolve conflicting data in most cases (albeit most of them appear to be minor).

Erica Howton & http://www.geni.com/people/Bj%C3%B8rn-P-Brox/285725352490006131

re: Michael House

Well, having my hopeful delusion crushed that curators might be able to undo an incorrect merge, I went ahead and sorted things out. Turns out that the "incorrect" merge I did had it's roots in some incorrect entanglement several generations earlier. I found some additional info which has helped me sort them out -- albeit that process is not entirely complete yet, at least I've separated the messy parts and am in the process of stitching the linkages back together.

Thanks for the guidance.

Excelllent! I very much know what you mean about chasing down the snarl. It's a satisfying feeling. Holler as you need us.

I think the following two profiles may be candidates for master profiles:

Sir Geoffrey Palmer Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former New Zealand Prime Minister;

Rev. Samuel Tarratt Nevill, former Bishop of Dunedin and former (Arch-Bishop) Primate of New Zealand.

Thanks.

Dan Cornett,

As far as I can tell you did very well and I would like to thank you again.

Roger Jacobs

Sir Geoffrey Palmer could also be included in the Prime Ministerial section of http://www.geni.com/projects/Notable-New-Zealanders

Jason Scott Wills

http://www.geni.com/discussions/80793?msg=743438

Personally I just leave the ones like this with 100+ matches (like Smiths) in the hope that one day Geni will create a better matching service.

Terry Jackson (Switzer) et all curators....

I would like to see a percentage of match: each field has weight (names, birth date, parents, siblings, etc), then if all but three out of 10 match exactly, you have a 70% match, if only one matches, you have a 10% match.

That way Geni isn't ignoring a possible match, but we as users are able to look at the higher probability that this is the same person matches first, and then work through the junk as time permits.

Anita M. Boynton, you can propose it as a feature request at http://help.geni.com/

It wouldn't be easy for us to give you % match, however we do have a project coming out soon that will distinguish our broad matches from a more narrow set of "likely matches" -- so matches that fit very narrow search criteria will get more emphasis.