ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Excellent suggestion MEZ and EH. I do this too. I also use MPs to prevent mergers of two children in the same family with identical names. Usually it's because the first one died young, but there was one family who just name several sons the same name.

Hatte, I do that too, locking the dead child and making both the dead child and the namesake child into MPs, with notes in the text box to explain. It solves so many problems.

Lesley Ann,
I added the 3 profiles to the Mormon Pioniers - 1861 project for you.

Thanks Ann! You're awesome!

I am sure I made a mistake... can someone please un merge these?
http://www.geni.com/merge/resolve/6000000008630886914

I came across this... Are there any Marshall experts out there? It needs a fix.
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000008518523711?to=6000000008...

Sally, I did some cleaning up in the Barkers. I'm not sure if I handled your issue or all the issues from the merges, but it's cleaner now.

Private User - In case you didn't quite catch the offer -- looks like several Curators (see comments above from Erica, Hatte, and Maria) are willing to work with you to MP the profiles which are being inappropriately merged, so that cannot happen any more. They would probably also be willing to help you untangle the mess, etc.

Certainly Francis Deane if this mess up is due to a bug which I am given to understand is the case the least we can do as curators is to try to put it straight for you. To do so we will need specific urls of profiles and clear instructions as to how the tree should look so we don't make things worse.

I am sure this is a mistake... can someone please un merge these?

Kerstin Engelbrektsdotter

Kerstin Engelbrektsdotter is a private profile and only family members can view and fix any bad merge.

Ok, what to do when the profile manager don't answer? With this merge Christin Engelbrektsdotter is her sons wifes sister?

I have my tricks, - there are 16 users within the family group of that profile who can help you, - my best tip is to contact the only Pro user Dan Axel Rosen, but of course you could for example ask Karl Johan Ingemar Collander to make the profiles you in you opinion should be public profiles to make them public. Anyhow, as a curator I cannot help you since these profiles are too recent in time.

Thank you Björn, i'll try with Dan Axel Rosen.

I discovered that I must have inadvertently merged a person in my tree to a person in another member's tree. I tried several times to disconnect my tree from theirs, but my attempts at what one would think would be a simple edit (changing parents), have just made a mess of it. The problem is that I'm messing up someone else's tree. Before I do any more damage, could you just delete two people in my tree that have gotten hooked into their tree? It would take me only a few minutes to just re-add them, but instead I'm spending hours trying to figure out some way to do this through the web interface.

The two people are this woman
Cynthia Mims
and her husband/sibling (a situation resulting in a botched attempt at changer her parents to get her out of the other person's tree). The other person's tree already has a Cynthia Moses. Leave that be. But delete the Cynthia Moses Mims person and Williamson Mims (they are both people I've added). There is also an unknown second spouse that got added to Elizabeth Moses in the other person's tree, and that should go away too.

I feel terrible that I've messed up someone's tree, and I don't even remember merging them in the first place. Erg.

Cynthia Mims?
As a starter She us married to her own brother: what is correct and which connections should be cut?

Better?

The problem is that my Moses should not have been merged into the other Moses tree in the first place. They are different families. I tried to unlink them following a message I found in the discussion board, and that's when it got really messed up. My ancestor Epsy Mimms Brown
Epsy Ann Brown
has parents Williamson Mimms and Cynthia Moses. But Cythia Moses is not related to the Moses family she is now connected to. My Cynthia Moses is the daughter of a John Moses Jr. (who's father was John Moses, not Robert Moses), and his wife Elizabeth. I think that's why they got merged originally - both couples are a John Moses and Elizabeth, having a daughter Cynthia. But my Cynthia (dau. of John Jr.) is different than the other Cynthia (dau. of John->Robert).
Now, there is an entry in someone else's tree for the John Jr. that looks similar to mine, but has a different wife name and not a lot information on birth locations, so I'm hesitant to merge into that tree (especially after this experience). So What I'd really like is for there to be two Cynthia Moses entries, one that is the one that always existed in the John, son of Robert tree, and one in my tree that's not connected to anybody else's tree. Then I would add the entries for my John Jr. and Elizabeth and possibly later that would get merged with this other John Jr. I have quite a bit of information on this Moses branch in my tree, with supporting documentation, and would like to enter that rather than start out merged with families that don't quite match, and don't have very much data.

Am wondering if the dates are wrong or if it is the wrong Joseph John. Don't know how Joseph John Borden b. 1702 can have children b. 1710 and 1708? Anyone know how we can fix this....?
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000003940250163?resolve=6...

Thankyou Erica, Hatte,Maria and Terry I will look at what files have been corrupted and elist your help to restore what has been altered inadvertantley by well meaning, but silly geni members.Of all the many revisions I have recently seen to my family tree only one or two have been basically dumb merges by people who have been only added to the tree within the last 20 years by marraige.
Frankly I think Geni no matter what the site membership should allow the original tree contributor whatever tree merges have happened to have some authority over what tree changes can happen. This would stop some silly tree gaffes happening. The most recent gaffe I challenged the woman was a 5000,000th cousin, 500 times removed (joke) by my nephew's wife so no direct link to the tree yet she was altering away person by person to what rule????? and when I challenged her about it she was basically,,,"Its a public profile, so I can".

All I want is the people who are changing original "public" profiles to have the basic decency to contact the profile managers to state "Hey, going to change this profile, to this. Are these new changes correct?.

http://www.geni.com/people/Marie-Anne-C%C3%A9cile-Campeau/600000000...? needs to be merged with http://www.geni.com/people/Marie-Anne-C%C3%A9cile-Campeau/600000001...

They are the same.

Private User Let me know how I can help.

I agree that quality control on trees is an issue. It's not always the person who entered the tree who has the best information however. I see numerous instances of family lore with no evidence. The REAL test is whether you can cite reliable sources, preferably primary sources such as wills or other legal documents or vital records. If more people put the best reference that they could find in About Me and/or added sources, there would be fewer issues.

I agree that the topic of how to achieve quality control is very important, but it's not always the answer to contact the manager because too many managers are either gone or unresponsive or have entered bad and unsourced information.

This profile for Elizabeth Bolton (http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000000657563077#600000000...) has been merged and married to the wrong William Mitton. This is due to common errors on the internet in the genealogy of the Mittons - there were two William Mittons in Yorkshire in the same era with similarly named children. Is it possible to split Elizabeth Bolton and her children off? I have moved and assigned the correct children of this William Mitton to the correct wives Mary Teal and Mary Harken.

Sally Thomas - I think I untangled the "children being born before parents" around Joseph John Bordon, but there are still some significant issues in that area, including that of Sarah Earle (here: http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000003940250163?resolve=6... ... which includes duplicate parents which have similar birth dates but very different death dates), as well as around what seem to be too many (duplicates, but with different dates) of the children of Mary Taber (Cooke) -- here: Mary Taber.

Since Mary Taber (Cooke) is the daughter of a Mayflower couple, I'm calling this to the attention of the "goddess of the Mayflower", Erica Howton

Egads, Mary Taber has 4 Geni husbands! I have some surgery to do ...

I'd like this merge completed: http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/310796291080001464?fsession%5Fid=...

Geir E. R. Gundersen - both profiles are private and one of them is even a claimed profile in a standalone tree.

Last login was September 7, 2008, so you can just forget about this, - but you can report that tree as abandoned and hope Geni close that account and delete the tree.

Thanks, Bjørn. I did that, maybe half a year ago.

Dan Cornett
Family of Mary Taber should be closer to reality now.

If a curator could do this (I can't), I think the simplest solution would be to disconnect this person
Epsy Ann Brown
from her parents, splitting the two trees. Then I can contact the managers of the Moses tree and suggest they remove Williamson Mims as the husband of the Cynthia in their tree (I have primary source evidence that the Cynthia married to Williamson comes from a different Moses family).

If it is not possible for even curators to remove the link between Epsy Brown (Mims), is there some other way to correct this?