ATTENTION Curators, please assist

this is the person in question...and thanks in advance for any help you may offer!
Lynn (Leah) Shapiro

Nathan Rosenshein Merges done on both Lynn and Irvin.

thanks Eldon and curators, job well done!!

You are welcome, that is one thing we are here for. Always remember to post links :-).

Hey ho curators!

Could someone please detach John Hutchins from the following couple:

Margaret Hutchinson
John Hutchinson

Thanks!

Leslie Ann - done. May I plug the Sussex projects as I see this tree is from Sussex. There are similar projects for all English Counties Sussex Family Heads, Sussex Famous People, Historic Sussex.

Another challenge for the curators, Igal and his wife, clearly are duplicated.
They need to be merged...both he and his wife. Question: If I am a Geni Pro user, should I not be able to do this, why do I have to trouble the curators?
Mind you , the curators seem to be very nice people!

Igal Wolkin

Your missing access to merge these profiles does depend on your Pro status or not, but because Igal Wolkin is a user profile and only himself, curators or Geni staff can complete those merges.

Since you as his second cousin are requesting the merges, a curator can clean up those merges for you. It is almost a year since last login, so if you give us a go the curators can clean up this part of your tree.

Just be aware that merging user profiles can in some cases cause a problem, but since his user profile is the oldest one of the three that needs to be merged it should not be a problem.

Could someone please sever Erastus E. Bassett [died young] from Chloe Bassett for me? Chloe was married to an Erastus Bassett, but not this one. (I created a profile for her actual husband, so she now has two husbands by that name.)

Thanks!

Marilyn - done. You set that up perfectly, thank you.

Dear Curators,
I recently reported Reverend John Wise because it is not possible for him to be married to someone who died in 1725 and also be my 9th great uncle. He has been quite busy adding around 600 profiles and he is now DELETING some of the profiles that I have added:
Alice White
Hannah White
Joseph White
Is there anything else that can be done to stop this?
I have re-added the affected profiles, but I'm not happy with any of this. I have no idea who this person is, but he is definitely not the REAL Rev. John Wise.
Please help!
Thanks,
Jessie German

Jessie

You don't need to re-key in I don't think, check this link

http://www.geni.com/list/deleted

Any profile you manage or co manage that has been deleted (including by merge) can be reverted through it. Also I've gotten "outside" emails when profiles I've solely managed have been deleted with a "quick link" to undelete, so you might want to check that as well.

Another curator was sure to alert Customer Service about the claimed historic profile who is an active user despite being born in the 1700s.

Erica Howton,
That is how I re-added them. I was notified by email and reversed the action. I just hope this is dealt with quickly because there are a lot of Great Migration Master Profiles that are now being affected. Part of it is my fault because I merged with profiles this person added, not knowing the manager was a hacker.
Thanks,
Jessie German

If you co-manage, you can block him, can't you?

Re: Blocking, Maven, I have no clue. I've never had to block someone, so if someone could enlighten me, what does blocking do?

This is straight from Geni Help http://help.geni.com/entries/21453997-How-can-I-block-another-Geni-...

To block a user please follow the steps outlined below:

1. Make sure you are logged into your Geni account
2. Select the Profile of the person you would like to block.
3. You will then see 'Block This User' under the Actions button on the profile page
4. Selecting 'Block This User' will add this person to the Blocked Users list in your Account Settings

Clicking the 'x' next to their name in the Blocked Users list will unblock them. Please note, we do not send an email to notify users that you have blocked them.

By adding someone to the Blocked Users list:

* Any family group or collaborator relationship is removed
* They can't see your email address or the email address on any profile you manage
* They can't contact you

I hope this helps - I've never had to do it either and hope I never do have to.

Just remember that blocking someone is mutual, i.e. have a boomerang effect. You block your own access to the other person's profiles as well. Fair enough.

You should also remember that blocking also block sending messages, so if the other person finally understand how to work on Geni he/she have no chance to send you a message and ask for help and even send you an excuse, they cannot.

Private User - I have also never needed to Block anyone - and hope Not to.

Question - is there for us to find out - if we were Blocked and by Whom ?

Private User , Jessica Marie German (etc) - Please note -- it says Blocking removes from Family Group and Collaborator -- it does not say it removes a person from being a Manager of a Profile, and I am quite sure it does not.

Once upon a time, Blocking used to mean the person could not edit the profiles you managed - but that was long ago and is no longer true. So - if a person is sending you harassing geni-messages, it may be useful; also if you do not want them to see your own personal profile. I think it will also keep them from seeing the Private Profiles you manage where you are their only connection to those profiles BUT they can see and edit any unclaimed profile if the profile is also their relative, or they are a manager, or another manager is a relative of theirs. So I do not think it would help Jessica.

Also, in the New Privacy Policy, under Profile Policy, it now says
"By default, only your relatives, Geni Curators and Geni Employees can see your full profile.
You can block specific relatives from viewing your full profile or messaging you."
- Sounds like you cannot block Geni Curators and Geni Employees - unless they are relatives?? or never? -- and possibly cannot block folks not related to you.

I thought she was talking about bogus managers....(who set up as Geni users but have birth date of 1725. etc)....in which case she would want to report' the manager to Geni and as bogus manager......not block him...

If I understand her and the problem correctly.

I've never used blocking as a tool. I don't think it would help Jessie's situation, which is a Geni member making a shortcut into the historical tree ("claimed historical profile."). As far as I know, anyone can report it via the "actions" menu, and only Customer Service has the tools to "unmask / un claim."

In any event the real problem here is deleting co managed profiles. Yeah - don't do that, it's deleting shared content.

Fay - you are correct, and apparently it has been reported. Maven had suggested that blocking would or might also help - this is what I was responding to.

I don't think I have either, but I did consider it a couple times!

Thanks! It would seem that the consensus is that blocking won't stop this person from deleting merged profiles (which I brought about myself because I did not check his profile before merging.) :(

You DID look at it, even if it was after the fact, and DID ask for help because you used your head and knew that the manager (and his relationship to the profiles) could not be correct......so give yourself a little slack.....

I have, in the past, found some illogical managers/Geni members..who could not have been born when they said...and therefore could not be sister/brother/son of the person that their profile appeared with.....Geni is VERY good about closing their account and breaking the connections....

Good spotting....we of course, hope that this is the last of these (tho I expect there are still some out there).

Ron Biala
This cousin of mine has not been online since 2011. Do you think you could do the merge on him? Thanks!

Ben Bentzion Dalfen
this fine fellow seems to have about ten people agreeing to the merge. Can you pls make it happen? Thanks!

Nathan Rosenshein

Ben Dalfen & Ron Biala have been merged with their "brothers." I note:

- I checked the Actions menu of the profiles, after merge, to see if there was a "resolve data conflicts" message for a family member to resolve. There was not.

- indeed there were multiple family members approving the merge request. Sorry it took so long to "make them one."

- there were no details to see that I, as not a family member, should not be seeing. Thank you for that, too.

Erica, thanks for your good help!

Private
This cousin of mine also requires a merging.
By the way, the above noted ben dalfen still seems to be duplicated.