ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Curator, please, could you tell me, why my blood relatives has been reduced from 100.000 to 5.000.
And what is the difference between a blood relative and an anchestor.

It's just the way Geni are working when recalculating those numbers.
The first do a general search for all users with the max limit of 5000 which is basic user limit.
Then they continues counting for Pro users, and that process is probably going on now, so what you see is the intermediate result of the first step.

Thanks, Brox. That means that the statistic will end up showing 100.000 again.

Private User - I don't think it will be reset Atomatically.
In the past 2 yrs - I had to open a Help ticket to have it Reset - abt 5 times.

Thanks, Peter Rohel. I'll follow the statistic in the days to come. Maybe it's a problem for Geni to solve ;-)

Sounds good :)

I also had to open a Help ticket re; Profile Followed - being stuck @ 47,077 for weeks now.

Geni reset my counts - same # remains.
I was told - Tech. dept. will have to investigate why reset did Not work - and I am awaiting the outcome.

can someone please look at this profile. http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000015742264989 Eleese wyborn tried to fix up her tree and ended up merging all her immediate family. I cant fix it for her and she cant do it, thanks

Susan Mary Rayner (Green) ( Ryan) She is private. Invite a curator to her family group for access

ok

Dont know where to ask, so I ask here, What about kids there are adopted? There should be a thing for that. Its a little stupid that it HAVE to be a father to a child, not JUST a mom (that have adopted)

Just one answer as the last 4 years: Stay tuned ;-)
but this time it is closer to release...

For now I use 2 options....if the child is adopted WITHIN the family (woman and husband killed by Indians or by disease) and taken in by a family member....I put notes into the 'about me'...

If outside adoption....I put , adopted.......into the suffix field.....and write notes also....this is not blood-line relationship.

But a REAL resolution is still pending, as Bjorn says.....

The difference is between legal adoption (no direct bloodline) and absorption (which still follows 1 side of the blood-line)

Yeah, I see. Thanks, I will wait for the real option :)
Dosen't like the "open box" with no father :/

I wondered about adopted kids or kids who come into a marriage with another spouce.My uncle married a woman with two kids. I put them under her and listed her 1st husband. Phil never adopted them but considered them his as did they him. My cousin Nat did the same thing , when he married marie. Then there's the family member with one parent listed as father but wasn't the father but legally carried the 1st husband's name on birth reacord, was then adopted by another couple . I listed him under her partner but with 1st husbands last name and he with two last names. After all that i removed him because it was too comfusing. How do you list something like that?

I wondered about adopted kids or kids who come into a marriage with another spouce.My uncle married a woman with two kids. I put them under her and listed her 1st husband. Phil never adopted them but considered them his as did they him. My cousin Nat did the same thing , when he married marie. Then there's the family member with one parent listed as father but wasn't the father but legally carried the 1st husband's name on birth reacord, was then adopted by another couple . I listed him under her partner but with 1st husbands last name and he with two last names. After all that i removed him because it was too comfusing. How do you list something like that?Oh and this child married a woman with chukldren did adopt them , had one of his ow, whom I found, and he was married and adopted a child. On my x husband's side their's a whole lot of adopting going on their two. Wife numjber three had four children. He did adopt two and took them away from her when he left her but never adopted the other two. How's that one.

At the present time, (that is, with the current Geni means of identifying relationships), I think the best way to handle this is to:

1) Connect the child to the birth parents. That's the "blood lineage".

2) Make a 'spouse' for this child ... with the same name and birth date. Then edit this new profile to make the gender "unknown". If you don't like it showing as a "marriage" relationship, then go to the Relationship tab (while editing the profile) and make the relationship that of a "Partner". After those changes are saved, then "move" this profile to be a child of the adoptive parents' relationship (e.g.: from the Tree View).

My reason for recommending this approach is that when Geni *does* allow for proper indication of adoptive parental relationships, it is probably going to then be simple to merge those two profiles (the "real" one and the "shadowed/genderless" one) and fix the indication of the relationships' types.

I suggest voting thumbs up for the adoption support feature request.
http://help.geni.com/entries/427332-support-for-adoptive-parents

Here is what we have on the Wiki for currently setting up alternative parents.
http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Adoption

dan what if they don't know who the birth parents are.?

What about a BROKEN line for adopted children instead of the continuous line for blood ties (on the same type of idea as the broken line for ex-spouses.

The method proposed/or supported that Dan Cornett mentioned is way too convuluted....and requires 'lying' to the computer...setting up fictional spouse's, when it has been drummed into us NOT to use any fictional people. And unknown gender seems ridiculous when some names are legitimately of unknown gender already....(I have Tiffany's that are both male and female depending on the time frame...and other names....and have a great grandfather named Tilly)

Adopted is a legitimate LEGAL addition to the line (even in the 1300-1400's and back)...and had rights of inheritance....

If you are worried about the DNA bloodline than THAT is something that needs a better resolution than made-up people and such.

For what they are worth, those are my thoughts.

Agreed, Fay, that there should be a simpler way -- but we don't have one yet! That's why Jeff says 'vote' on the issue!

Judy: It doesn't matter, really, which you create first: the "birth child" or the "adopted child". For that matter, it doesn't really matter which of those two are 'gender-less"; the only purpose is to make it simpler to identify adopted vs. birth relationships.

Fay: the 'shadow profile' is NOT fictional; it is just acting as a placeholder for a real profile. Sure, it is adding a 'second meaning' to "unknown gender"; if you didn't like that, you could, alternatively, make that 'shadow profile' have the correct gender and simply alter the name to denote "[adopted]". It would be no different than adding a 'placeholder' for an unknown grandparent when you DO know the great-grandparent.

The second reason I like #2 approach described in the Wiki (vs. the first approach described of creating a 'conflict' of parents) is that path tracing still works with the second method -- path traces get blocked (confused) when there is a parental conflict.

Isn't that what i am saying ? there should be a catagorie for adopted.Or if birth parents are know then the child should have two sets of parents, since legally they do,

@ Stella McCartney
Eu estou com problemas para unir várias árvores genealógicas de Stella .

Will someone please tell me when last Sharon Pustejovsky (ROLLINS) and Private User were online?

Thanks in advance.

Will someone please tell me when last Sharon Pustejovsky (ROLLINS) and Private User were online?

Thanks in advance.

And also this person Jill Willmers

And lastly this person Private

Re my above requests - they have been answered.

Re my above requests - they have been answered.

In a gedcom export the submitter of a record is mentioned.
(like: 1 SUBM
Is there a way to find the person or a possibility to send a mail to him/her from this information?