ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Thank you Dan Cornett. I will be more careful next time.

Can anyone delete these two profiles please? Don't know why I cannot.

Bernice Gayle

Muriel "Mada" Blake

Private User : in both cases it looks like they have (unknown) spouses (2, in the case of Muriel). Try removing the spouses first (using the Relationships tab), then you ought to be able to delete them. Those may be incomplete operations from when Geni was having performance problems earlier this month.

On a somewhat tangential point: are those profiles simply mis-placed? If so, use the "Move" option (under the 'More' on the profile in Tree View) to put them in the proper place. Then disconnect the improper relationships (e.g.: unknown spouses and/or incorrect parents).

I was looking at the Relationship option but it warned it might split the tree. I can see now that it would not have mattered since the spouses were unknown. Thank you Dan.

I accidentally merged Private into my dad
Danny Chin 陳國誠, 149, 108, 61, 26 by using the same email address

I tried to remove the relationships but it gave warning of splitting tree and won't let me proceed. Can someone help to undo the merge, or remove father: Chin You Ming 陳耀民, 148, 107, 60, 25G (字:應彬)
and remove mother: Mrs. Chén 陳 from Danny Chin 陳國誠, 149, 108, 61, 26

note that my tree traces back continually to Huangdi, first emperor of Chinese civilization Huáng Dì (Yellow Emperor) 黃帝, Xuān Yuán 軒轅, 1 , so don't know if this has already been merged to the "big tree"

Nelson Mitrophan Chin, 陳逸龍, 150, 109, 62, 27G (字：達恆) I sent it to Mike "mechanic" Stangel. No need to panic.

Do I have to be following a project before I can add someone to it??? I would like to add my 7th great grandfather [ Capt. Nathaniel Niles] as he was a Capt. of Militia in the King Phillip War. When I have attempted to do so it only shows: History Link & Colonial American Doctors as my options. When I typed in the King Philip's War (as shown in History Link) nothing happens.
Thanks.
Pat

Go to the project page

http://www.geni.com/projects/King-Philip-s-War/3821

Select from the actions menu, add profile

Also see these FAQ

http://help.geni.com/forums/367947-Projects

(help link, bottom of every Geni page, Frequently Asked Questions)

Erica,
I had started with the FAQ about project when I first tried to add him to this project and then went to the project pg and attempted from there!!! Believe me I think I have tried everything before putting my question here.

Sooooo, I went again to King Philip's War pg--I went to action menu & entered his name: Niles, Nathaniel then Nathaniel Niles then Capt Nathaniel Niles -- after each entry I looked on first pg, then pg. 21, the last pg--he's not there!!! One time I even looked at each pg between! :-( What am I doing wrong??? @Nathaniel Niles, I.

Your issue seems to be with "tagging" the profile so it can be added to the project. You will see a message "added to project" when successful.

But it might be easier to join the project as a collaborator and add profiles from your "drop down" lost. Go to the King Philips War project, actions menu, request to collaborate. Once approved by a current collaborator you can add any profile you have edit rights to, to that project (profile manager or collaborator).

Thanks Erica, I thought that if I "followed" the project that would be enough. Guess not, hah? Will go to the project page and see about collaborating on several that I am currently "following" as probable ones that I will want to add family members to down the road.

Can I print out a "master list" of all the projects? I have the list that my ancestors are already in per History List, but there may be others that will be appropriate for other public family members in my direct line.

Patricia there are over 7000 projects on Geni:)

I have good luck using my dashboard

http://www.geni.com/projects, or from the drop down menu, research > projects.

Projects or profiles I follow show activity there.

When I have a profile of interest that could belong to a project I use "search projects" on various words; that's part of why projects are "tagged.". And the "related projects" function from the right side of a project page also reveals projects of interest and relevance.

rvk - done

Private User,
The profile 'van Laarhoven' appears not to exist anymore.

likely his profile was 'un-zombied' and merged

I was trying to remove this profile of Shirla Cupid:

Mistake #5

I didn't see any option so I removed the "unknown parents" to Baby Thomas on this profile:

Baby Thomas

Instead, it looks like it deleted a large section of my tree! I still cannot delete this profile of Shirla Cupid.

Please tell me what I am doing wrong! I am bringing this to the attention at the help desk.

Sandra - take a look at the revisions tab for Baby Thomas. It shows a disconnect from siblings. I take it the parents are unknown?

I think what I would do is:

1. Make "unknown Thomas parents" placeholder profiles for the Thomas family. When there are multiple siblings it's hard to keep them orderly without a placeholder, at least in my experience.

2. Then you can "drag & drop" Baby Thomas to re join the family.

3. Then you can cope with Shirla better.

Thank you for all your help Erica.

My pleasure.

Somethings not right with this father son connection.

Roger
Serlo Fitz Tancreed, I

Birth:
1240
Guildford, UK

Tancred Guiscard, seigneur de Hauteville

Count Tancred The Viking de Hauteville

Birth:
910

Death:
circa 980 (70)
Hauteville-la-Guichard, Manche, Lower Normandy, France

Ohboy.....

I've been doing a lot of offline work, with a genealogy program that has a basic error-catcher. HO-LEE COW the upper branches of the tree are just FULL of errors!

Wrong birth dates, wrong death dates, wrong marriage dates, wrong parents, wrong spouses, wrong children, and the occasional timey-wimey loop.

Out of the 10,000 profiles I downloaded, I think HALF have one or more major errors.

(Note: I stopped at 10,000 to exclude the more bizarre "descent lines" (Adam, Zeus, Odin, et al).

Oh yeah. That's not news to those of us who've spent a couple of years now struggling to tame the beast. It's slowly getting better, though. Probably the most time effective thing we could do is find a way to stop the steady of new duplicates. They tend to re-introduce the same errors over and over.

Private User

I disconnected Roger from impossible parents & resolved data conflicts.

That was actually good - because I was then offered a match with far more likely parents.

The line needs work & sourcing. It's way outside my own knowledge area though.

Awesome! Thanks Erica. I know the connection was wrong. It looks a 100% better, and this looks to be a strong relationship path for me.

http://www.geni.com/path/Ian+Winton+is+related+to+Aaron+Fitz+Rogers...

For the best part of a year my merges have been restricted by a block of private profiles that match public profiles managed by me. The other manager has not responded to various requests to collaborate, merge, share management, etc. and I have long assumed he has abandoned
his tree. The other party is Damion Vozniak

I now notice that the Abandoned Tree option has appeared, so I responded to it and have received a system response:

"Unable to find a replacement manager."

I offer myself up to handle all Damion's tree as many of them match profiles that I am already managing.

Can anyone help PLEASE

Regards

Will Chapman

Private User at least for the Nordic saga lines, these date errors are not errors in the traditional sense of "someone transcribed a number wrong". They are disagreements in the form of "I eyeballed some numbers in there that seemed right to me because there were none in the sources, and my eyeball estimates don't agree with someone else's estimates".
Some day I want to replace them all with "between" dates with the most liberal ranges that can be justified based on biology - but it's a major undertaking, not something I can start in an afternoon.
A few generations before "recorded history", the error ranges are likely to be in the hundreds of years.

Will Chapman (Vol. Curator),
It's abandoned but the other tree is not connected to the 'Big Tree'.

Private User,
Jan Jan Jacob Jan van Son is now a public profile.

Harald - not talking about the saga lines. Because I restricted the number of profiles, my downloaded version started in the 10th century AD (admittedly, almost everything prior to about 1200 is suspect on general principles).

Geni needs an error catcher to tell people things like "this child was born when parent was less than 13" or "this child was born when mother was over 50" or "child born BEFORE parent" or "child born after mother's death date/too long after father's death date". I'm catching stuff like that all over the place, and as often as not it leads to discovery that the wrong child has been attached to the wrong parents, or the wrong spouses have been attached. In one case I found a closed timey-wimey loop where the great-grandchildren WERE the great-grandparents (ouch!).

It would help if Geni build in some checks. One way to find errors like this is to make a gedcom export end use a gedcom checking program to find errors like these.

@Elizabeth Sykes - I would appreciate having the profile for this woman and her husband locked to prevent merges of husbands called Thomas Oldham from being merged with her. Myheritage and other sites on the web have undocumented and incorrect information for her husband.

Elizabeth Oldman

Thomas A. Oldman

Thank you,
Roberta Jaffer