ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Would someone please tell me how to eliminate from a profile the duplicate sons/daughters/ parents etc? and the best way to locate them?

The best way to "eliminate" them is to merge them together. One profile might have some information that the other one is lacking. I try to never delete a profile.

If you could provide a link to a profile with duplicate siblings, one of us would be happy to walk you through the process.

Elisabeth de Vermandois, dame de Crépy

This is the Master Profile of Elisabeth de Vermandois , daughter of 30 persons, the wife of 22, the mother of 96 and is managed by 280. Perhaps a profile should and could first be cleared of mess before it becomes a Master Profile?

Hi Nicolas,

My poor great grandma.

Believe it or not, she's in better shape than she was when I found her.

We decided the better way to stop the madness was make a Master Profile *first* and detangle after.

By the way, I kindly allowed another (actually I think it's three) of her many descendants to take on that task.

Hi cousin Erica,

She is my 25th greatgrandmother, so we are close cousins. I see your point and hope that these three cousins have enough patience to clear grandma.

I have been waiting for weeks for merges that need to take place in the Stickney line. Can any one make this happen? I am at a dead end with merges... Just waiting for approval on the merges that I have attempted to make over the last month or 2.... obvious matches. My Stickney line is inpecable... Do not understand the delay.

Can someone please merge this profile?
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000009570028595?return=duplic...
Thank you.

I seem to have lost my entire Tallman line from William on back... no longer in my tree.

I am using the resource of Peleg Tallman 1764- 1841, His ancestors and decendants by Emery.... Anyone who wants to know more about this line can contact me... Please feel free to do so.

Nothing is lost, but unresolved parent conflicts might give you the look of having lost something.

The reason is that Geni is not longer stacking profiles.

Regarding Anita's earlier post regarding George Washington's profile, when opening from a project: I'm still getting the same problem. When I go to his MP from the search list, I see it does not list him for any projects. Could that be the problem? Does someone collaborating on projects he should be a part of re-add him?

Erica... You recently updated a profile (or at least I noticed recently) for Thomas Button... He is also in my family tree and I am trying to clean up some major duplications, we had some 7 parents listed for him.

I tried to merge all the profiles, and there is one that is very different, so I am not sure how to get rid of it. Also, one that you have updated... his death date is listed in Ancestry.com as June 26, 1617. This is not so, it is actually June 23, 1617... here is some info to back it up from another member, also additional info about his parents also being listed here incorrectly which wrongly makes him a knight.

Can you help fix this... I don't have access to change them. I have merged the ones I can, but can't change the wrong info outright.

Thanks!!

* mgowdy_1 - 7/13/2010
This information is in​correct. "June 26​, 1617 is the date tha​t Thomas Button was bu​ried. He died June 23,​ 1617. Source: Parish ​Records, Harrold, Bedf​ordshire, England.​

* mgowdy_1 - 5/16/2010
This Thomas Button was​ not the son of Margar​et Lewis & Miles B​utton. I have found no​ government records or​ pedigrees to connect ​Matthias and his fathe​r Thomas to the Button​s of the parish of St.​ Nicholas, Co. Glamorg​an. Thomas, the son of​ Miles, was very much ​alive in 1616 since he​ was knighted 30th Aug​ust, 1616. Please visi​t my Ancestry site and​ view my sources for T​homas Button, the son ​of Miles. Mildred L​. Gowdy​

Sorry, Erica... been working on all this too long today!! I had 7 parents listed for Matthias Button... but Thomas Button is the one who has incorrect info and incorrect parents listed at this point.

Hey Michelle,

Can you post the URL of the profiles? Just copy and paste it from the address bar into the message. Go ahead and correct the dates if you have access rights.

Sorry, I knew that... I am going cross-eyed looking at this mess!! I did manage to get rid of Thomas's parents... I guess I had put them in myself, I have no idea anymore. I have put in about 1350 people in my tree, so hard to keep track anymore!

Thanks, Erica!

Thomas Button

As I look into this more, I think I will eventually need assistance with his wives and children also... but I need to do the research first. I just can't imagine he had 20 children (5 of them all being Mary).

Then there are 2 Elizabeth Lettice Button's and a Lettyce Button (wives) that I suspect are probably all the same person...

But again, needs research and I can't think anymore today, need some relaxing games.

LOL definitely! Thanks for the hard work, Michelle. Post tomorrow (be sure and include links).

Carole, done
:-)

done
can you do something to resolve the conflicting data with Captain John Lawrence profile ?

I've started doing that but saw it was a little bit complicated since We'll need to work on other family members as well

can we kill some zombies in this area of the tree?
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000007319930407
thank you

I would try my best since some of them are getting close to the border limit of death around 1850's and we can't kill" beyond that

dang...not even with a gun!!! they really are zombies...thank you for trying ^U^

have you tried contacting the other managers of them?

Kathy I sent a request to collaborate with the manager of those zombies. I am an Agee descendant so I was very happy to see that tree. I will contact you separately
Eldon

All done, Alastair.

Is anyone else having difficulties with the Relationships window? The one where you are able to disengage relationships yourself (as long as they don't "split the tree")?

My experience right now, working with the Ostrogoth line, is that:
(1) either the timer is set too short, where it cuts off the hunt for all the relationships before it has the chance to pull them up (saying it's taking too long)
(2) or the search program has some sort of bug in it that's causing it to take forever (or at least much longer than the timer allows).

I'm trying to maneuver one of the profiles from one location to another in the Ostrogoth line (a source had a tree placement wrong), and I can't do that on my own if the Relationships window keeps stalling out.

Is the tech team working on something that's causing things to slow on the site? (Taking deep breaths...)

Probably a more constructive way to put this is:

Any curator want to help deal with the mess I've made in the Ostrogoth line?

The maneuvers I'm trying to make are:
(1) move Wideric from his (son) relationship with Vinitharius to (son) relationship with Berimud. Step one has been completed, where he has been "moved" to being son of Berimud. Still to be completed is the removal of the relationship with Vinitharius.
(2) move Vandalarius from (son) relationship with Wideric to (son) relationship with Vinitharius. Step one has been completed, where he has been "moved to being son of Vinitharius. Still to be completed is the removal of the relationship with Wideric.
(3) removal of (Generation 14) as wife of Wideric (she is already connected to Vandalarius)

This should correct the lineage so that I can add in the supporting information for all these relationship changes.

the related profiles would probably help...

(Generation 13)

Berimud, Counselor to Theodorid I of the Visigoths

Vinitharius "the Just", Warlord of the Ostrogoths

Vandalarius

Wideric, Exiled King of the Ostrogoths

Apparently the problem is solved... many thanks to all the anonymous help out there... wherever you may be. -Ben.

You know, the whole "Roadblock Curator" concept is really starting to get annoying. I'll put up with it, of course, but when a curator sits on a profile for weeks at a time blocking merges because he or she wants to "do something" with the profile, it really slows things down, it seems to me.

The process for cleaning up a profile seems painfully easy to me. Maybe I'm not getting something here. (1) Remove duplicate passages from the About Me section, (2) Review what you have left, (3) Conform the Basic and Relationship information to what is left in the About Me section.

Even for painfully mutated profiles from the Carolingian-Capetian War Zone, I can't see the process taking more than an hour or two at the most. If you want to research additional information, cool, but that doesn't require a block on a profile, it seems to me.

Forgive the venting, but it gets frustrating watching your Merge Center go from 9 hanging merge issues to 25 because of what appears to be an ill-thought-out block... moving on to a different part of the tree... -Ben.