ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Do you mean "Lynn of the Dead" or her zombies? :)

hmmm such a dilema , probably better go with just the zombies for right now ^U^

Kathy,
The bulk of those profiles below Johann Lauck are private. Zombie hunter is not working. I have a curator check public tool and it is telling me his wives are "private" profiles. About half the children are also private. I have made public anything I can.

well lets hope that they return my "phone calls"...thanks for trying..i am still trying to figure out how i ended up with names on that side of the tree.

Okay, the big announcement for the Ostrogoths is at:

http://www.geni.com/discussions/85061

Can someone edit this profile? Françoise Jeanne Renault
Her name is Frances Jane The last names should stay the same for now. The only shown manager has not been on Geni since January. If he has abandoned ship I would be interested in managing some of his profiles

Eldon

Done, Eldon. I put both Frances and Jane in the first name slot. The middle name is already being used as a modifier. Also, Frances tends to be a common name, Frances Jane much less common. It will make it easier if you have to search for her again.

Regarding the previous manager's status, it must be more than one year with out a log in before his profiles are considered abandoned.

Maria, thank you, every bit helps. How does Geni handle abandoned profiles?

Abandoned profiles used to be given to anyone who requested them. Now that we have curators with expanded merge ability, we are supposed to help merge the abandoned profiles into the tree. That being said, if you find an abandoned profile, you can request management and 99% of the time the request will be granted. The request link is under the "More Options" menu on the right side of the main profile screen.

oh sorry eldon that i didnt get back there to edit profiles, it didnt show up for me as an issue and i forgot to go back and look.

Alastair:
Robert and David are now MP
merge request You provided couldn't complete becouse not public profiles

Henn

Could someone take a look at this... It really needs fixing... It is the Butterworth line
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000007291034310?resolve=1

Sally looks like someone merged a wife and sister together. I am doing a bit to fix it.

This wiki page has been updated. If you have other questions that you feel need to be included here, please let us know.

http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Curators_--_and_how_YOU_can_help

Is there a curator for the Tallman line? I sure would like to fix it... It is a mess, children attributed to the wrong mother.... siblings that are not recorded any where... Who do I talk to about working on this... ? I am using the source of Honorable Peleg Tallman 1764-1841 His ancestors and decendants... along with a family bible from Asa Tallman

Pam, I checked out the link you offered... Great info... but that is as far as i was able to go. I joined wiki, but never did anything about it, because I just simply do not know how to work it. and of course it is going to take time for me to learn, and time is something that is very expensive for me here in Panama, since I am billed by the amount of bits I use per month. I am allowed 1 gig, and if I go over that, I am charged tremendous fees. Unfortunately it is the only internet available in this rural area of Panama at the moment.

Sally, just feel blessed that you can even *get* internet connection in Panama--in some ways that seems amazing to be able to be so far away and yet still be connected.

I'm sure if she were in Panama City, the deal would be better... Valparaiso, Chile, can suck for connectivity as well (bandwidth issues, mostly), but at least it's unlimited usage.

So are you up in the mountains, Sally? (Been following Peddicord's newsletters, and she keeps trying to sell it as a place to go... never been big on the tropical air-conditioner-to-air-conditioner thing, though...)

Oh, happy blue moon, one and all...

I'm not big on the whole naming convention thing, but I am pretty big on historical accuracy. I've been wading through much of the day a bunch of errantly-named profiles that indicate that the person is something or the other to do with the "Holy Roman Empire" - and all of these are from the Carolingian Empire of the Romans.

The Holy Roman Empire and the Empire of the Romans are not equivalent. The entity that became the HRE got its start on 2 February 962 with the crowning of Otto I. This is well after Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Lothar, the whole Carolingian imperial she-bang. The HRE was a successor state to the Empire of the Romans (much the same as the Empire of the Romans was a successor state to the Roman Empire - and no one is calling Caligula a Holy Roman Emperor, are they?). Yet I'm running into even curators making the mistake of naming someone "Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire" even with them having taken their title before 962. I mean, the name itself was even a retroactive thing - they didn't start calling the 962 empire the Holy Roman Empire until the 12th century.

Granted, the sources I'm using to back my objections here are two English Wikipedia articles, but both of them have a decent number of what appear to me reasonably authoritative references to them. The most cited source listing HRE for the period I'm objecting to is Darryl Lundy and his Peerage page - and he's apparently citing secondary sources that are questionable at best for this period.

My sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I_the_Great

You will also find no reference to the HRE in FMG listings before 962 because they simply didn't belong there and then.

Can we please agree that before 962 it's not Holy Roman Empire? Please? Or at least someone cite a credible source showing that I'm off? Forgive me, but it seems bad enough just fighting off the ones that are cluelessly following someone's ill-researched GEDCOM file; to have it come from curators just sort of throws me.

It's probably time for bed... the caffeine is wearing off. -Ben.

This is why we have the "naming conventions" pages by Project / Historical period and place - in project or in the Wiki (link at bottom of page). :) :)

But also remember we're still in the "cleanup" phase. I'm busy deleting USA out of all profiles I run across prior to 1789 .... as you can imagine, there are a few of those.

Can someone please merge this sawyer profile, I have been waiting for ages.
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000007297915354?from_flash=1&...

Done, Sally.

Thank you, dear lady! Appreciate it.

We still have problems in the Butterworth line.... It is going to take a lot of doing to get that mess fixed... Here we are again with intergenerational problem...
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000007290764751?resolve=1

Hi Erica:

I've been putting in "(Present USA)" or "(Present insert-present-country-name-here)" on profiles as I think it's important to convey where the places are that these archaic places are. Otherwise you end up with further confusion (Chateauneuf, for instance, associated with the "Church of St. Martin", was actually a pilgrimage location near the old Basilica of St. Martin in a district of present Tours - if you don't convey that somehow, a person can get confused with the hundreds of other French "Newcastles" that exist across France).

See I knew there was a reason to stay away from France. :) :)

Yes, it is best to put in "was named / is currently named" if possible, at least until Geni buys an FMG validated database for place names.

Don't look for it from me though. I can't remember when Plymouth Colony turned into Massachusetts Bay Colony turned into the Commonwealth of Massachusetts etc.

On 50,000 Mayflower descendant profiles ...

OK back to the turkeys.

There's a major stack up around Duncan I, King of Scots
both on above and below

Not I, I'm on T-Day duty. Think I'll pull it off? Thanksgiving is in July, right? :)

Erica, that's why they made a Wikipedia page on "The Historical Outline of Massachusetts":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_outline_of_Massachusetts#Hi...
(For those of us like me who are finding their memory getting shorter and shorter with each login...)

And as to Thanksgiving in July, it happened in 1630:

July 18 (July 8 Julian Calendar, Thursday), in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the arriving settlers in all the plantations of the new Massachusetts Bay Colony hold a day of thanksgiving.

(Of course it seemed like they were holding days of public thanksgiving every third or fourth week around that time... crazy Puritans.)