ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Curators have no access to any such script. Wish it existed, but long time away from any such thing is my guess.

Create a new profile, ensure the relationships are correct, disconnect the bad relationship; all pros can do this.

Lt. John Bradford of Plymouth Colony. Please break John's marriage to Rebecca Pace of Virginia. His only wife was Martha Bourne.

Steven Patrick Frank -- I'm moving discussion about your request to a discussion specific to Rebecca Bradford's profile ... there is some evidence to the contrary of your statement which can be discussed there.

... that discussion is here: http://www.geni.com/discussions/128602

Is it possible to receive help with a user in my tree who has removed names from the tree? She is married to my first cousin once removed, and deleted the names of my great aunt, great uncle, and most of the descendants on that line. Thank you in advance for any help provided.

another privacy issue, i would guess

Rachel you should be able to "revert" the name changes easily from the revision tab. And perhaps have an educational discussion with your relative explaining their personal privacy on Geni, as per

http://www.geni.com/company/privacy

Rachel....1) Names cannot be removed.....they are just now 'misplaced'...

As Erica said....go to the last good profile and go to the 'revisions' slot.....you can then see the changes made and 'refresh' the data to return it to its former status

AND you need to talk to the relative....just because SHE can SEE people in your immediate area does NOT mean that others can......

That takes a bit of getting used to.....and she should be educated before she jumps to conclusions....because if the people are coded as 'private' that is exactly what they are....

Have her read the policy....

;;-).

Thank you to all who helped out on my behalf. Yes, I was able to restore deleted profiles that I manage, and I was able to re-edit the names that had been changed.

Good for you Rachel.....

Thumbs UP.

unknown Barron please break connection to Whitfields as parents. Or delete the profile, its just a placeholder I made to help fix a messed up relationship.

Several people were involved in creating a mess:

http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000000593696913

As a non-Pro user for some vague reason I'm not allowed to assign the correct parents:

Eliazer Isaac Diamant en Mietje Drukker.

Appreciate your help.

No doubt this mess was created by not so smart users who acted on suggestions of Geni's 'smart' tool..

Done for Isaac Diamant

Be sure and update the profile "about" with the resolution to the 3 possible parents conflict.

Another thing: the info under 'revisions' is not specific enough to reconstruct the original situation when a bad merge has occurred.
And since there is no 'un-merge' tool available to undo a bad merge...

I use the "data conflicts" screen, outside sources, profile overview notes, and of course attached documents most of all. Haven't failed yet.

And also send mails to the managers, particularly the "added to the tree" manager.

That sounds like a lot of work Erica. I know its an old complaint, but I still think Wikipedia-style revisions are the solution. Two clicks and you'd have problem merges fixed.
But without that, the about section is the best solution to preventing future bad merges from adding bad data. If someone puts the birth, death, parents, spouses and kids and a source link in the about screen, then That has cleared up a number of bad merges for me. I try and do that for any profiles of mine that connect to a large number of other families.

Erica Howton Thanks for your help

There were 2 bad merges. The last one who did a merge was a user from (I think) one of the Baltic states whose only activity concerns merging 'duplicates', not adding profiles. It's very unlikely he had any knowledge of the profiles he thought were duplicates.
The one before him who did a merge is known to make many mistakes.

Yeh for you Steven!!!!!

......I have been trying to put something into all of my profiles....entering data to them in the 'about me' from the start.....to identify them from any number of like-named people in their family's.....(there were just too many of the same name and they had the tendency to marry women by the same name also....I figured if it sometimes confused ME...., when I had the data in front of me....it surely would be confusing to others with similarly named men and wives)....

Another reason also to enter the siblings.....not all have the same siblings in the same order and dates....

It IS a lot of work....but if someone gets mis-merged I can, at least in most cases, tell WHO is wrong and either fix the situation or get a curator to relocate the misplaced person...

The Wiki way is good...but also most genealogies and town histories work the same way.....they give the person, the spouse, the children and dates...additional data....then sources..

IF you put a brief bit of data into the profile at the top of the 'about me' you also can 'HOVER' over the entire profile and check the spouse info as well as the children and dates etc....without going into each an every profile......

Same named people will ALWAYS be a problem....so the more data you have on the entire family...dates...locations....the whole dynamic....the better.

I know that some people hate it...but I keep the birth surname (formerly known as 'maiden name') of the woman at LEAST until I have enough data in the 'about me' to tell one profile from another........names had their 'time of popularity''....when every one seemed to favor certain names....the 'popular' name of the decade....which appear in clusters in families....

How many Britney's do you know? Or Madonna's......Or Cher's....(or whatever name is currently the 'IN" name)?........they are everywhere in both families and areas.

Again......kudoes to you Steven...

re: common names ... just as a reminder: by making all the profiles of DIFFERENT people with common names as Master Profiles, then accidental mis-merges of them is prevented -- because two MP's cannot be merged. So, if you have siblings with the same (or very similar) names, or mother, daughter, granddaughter with the same name, etc. -- ask for them to be MP'd.

Good point Dan...

Also same names, different parents but same family......(i.e. 2 brothers marry 2 same first-named wives and have same named children)....

Absolutely. When one has spent the time to sort out such complicated family names/relationships, it is far easier to ask for them to be MP'd at that time rather than later after another branch is merged in.

If there is indeed an inadvertent MPing of two profiles of the same person showing up later, that is probably easier to "fix" (by getting a curator's assistance) than it is to fix up/re-create mis-merged profiles.

Please assist with the profile of Maria Persdotter: Maria Persdotter
Now my relation to Maria Persdotter is said to bee “Maria Persdotter is your first cousin 6 times removed's wife's half sister”
But my grandfather Nils is “Maria Persdotter is Nils* Gustaf Valdemar Pihl's third great grandmother."

Niklas Pihl - Your path should be more direct now.

Geni "caches" (saves) previously calculated paths between two profiles. You probably had Geni find the path from you to Maria before all the more-direct pathways were established.

The "clue" that this happened was that I 'walked down' from your grandfather to your father, and it nicely showed "4th great grandson" for your father. But when I click next to his son (you), it showed that longer path ... which told me that it was a 'saved' path. I forced Geni to re-calculate the path, and it found the more direct one this time (5th great grandson).

... FYI ... you may have been able to eventually force the path to recalculate yourself. If you see a little grey "circle" made of two arrows by the path, that means you can ask Geni to recalculate the path. It won't let you repeatedly do that for some period of time (a few days?) because that path calculation is a rather heavy system load -- which is why they 'cache' a previously calculated pathway.

While these two people happen to have the same parents, they don't appear to be the same person. Can someone please lock them so they don't get merged together:
James Babcock, Jr.
James Babcock, Jr.

Thank you

The first one (1688) seems to be clearly attached wrong (unless the dates are way off); the mother died 23 years earlier (1665). They are both MP's, but just need to find the proper relationships...

There appear to be two Job Babcock's born at the same time that I noticed on the mother's timeline ( Sarah Badcock ).

@ Dan Cornett, I’m sorry to say but from me to Maria Persdotter the path is still the same,
Maria Persdotter is your first cousin 6 times removed's wife's half sister. But looking the other way, my father is Maria Persdotter's fourth great grandson (can’t see the path to myself when looking from Maria and down)

Niklas Pihl ... wait a few more days and then see if the path can be refreshed. It showed to me as you being 5th great grandson. If it persists past a week (and there is no 're-calculate circle' to try), then put it in as a "Ticket" (giving specific profiles involved, as you have nicely done here).