ATTENTION Curators, please assist

If it says "Request to merge", then yes, you're at the mercy of whoever is on the other end of the match. But if it just says "Merge these profiles", they can be merged at will. (Make sure they really do match, though!)

Private User the curators aren't supposed to touch private profiles without the approval of someone in the family group.
In this case, there are 65 Geni users in the family group of your second profile (Henry Weinstein) - perhaps some of them can help you?

The subject of changing access is thorny - there are some deceased profiles that people wouldn't like to have public (recently deceased children, for instance) - and there's also the general reluctance to "change the rules retroactively" on people who expected that what they got yesterday is what they'll see today. So I think re-evaluating the privacy rules has been pushed back a bit - there's no lack of urgent tasks to consider.

BTW, Jeffrey Shanes was logged on in February, so he probably hasn't seen your request to merge of 10 days ago yet.

Private User All three are done.

cheers !

Curator, please, will you help me to update my tree.

Again I have problems with the branch of my third great grandfather Christen Christensen Skov.
The path of his ancestors relations to me do not show the direct way.

Another problem is the statistic. But maybe this problem will be solved at the same time.

Thanks.

Henny can you post a link to the profile please?

Yes - here's the link to my third GG
Christen Christensen Skov

Can somebody please disconnect Margaret Sheppey from John Eveleigh, MP

Thanks!

Private
Dan Cornett is the Curator for Margaret Shepey, please contact him.

Henny thank you for the link.

When I use the pushpin tool, I see the message

Henny Odby Nielsen is Christen Christensen Skov's third great granddaughter.

I'll try some other tests also.

Nope, both are already marked as deceased, - they are however private profiles and if you want them to be public you have to kindly ask the manager or one of the other 6 users within the family group of these profiles to make them public.

Erica - it's the father of my third GG and other of his ancestors who are the problem.
His father:
Christen Olesen, Fuurboe
"Christen Olesen is your fourth great uncle's sister's husband's brother."

Christen Olesen ought to be my fourth GG.

Last time these problems appeared curators were able to update my tree. Only curators have this access.

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Several profiles in my tree are connected in different tree branches within my family tree. Which was quite normal in Denmark at that time, and specially in this part of Northern Jutland, Salling, close to Limfjorden.

To me it looks as if the Geni system is unable to cope with this automatically.

I hope, Geni will be so kind and solve this problem. And show the direct path automatically.

Post continued:

Maybe the problem with undirect pathes in my tree is the reason why "Ancestors" in the Geni statistic shows a continuing decrease in numbers.
29 July 2013 21,281
7 March 2014 14,463
14 May 2014 10,141

The reason for decrease in number of ancestors could be cleaning up duplicates

No, that's not the problem Private User

What concerns the undirect path, I now see, that the branch in question has been updated.
Thanks.

Have you tried refreshing a path using a little circle with arrows?

Private User Wrong parent removed.

Private User - Only Curators have that circle as far as I know : )

But thanks for your help.

Henny, - regular users get the recalculate circle one week after the path was calculated, so just be patient.

Ok curators.. I am not sure if this is the place for it but feel free to move it Private sent me a message today I note a lot of the " you are related" are not trust worthy. I just got one that you are following me- and the line is totally off. The Whitaker family of Maryland is well documented in a magazine from the Maryland Historical Society years ago.

There are people on line who have done DNA-- so far no connections to England other than we know its an English name and that there are Whitakers of all social classes.

If I am wrong please let me know- and verify it for me- Thank you Philip In response to this I have not been able to verify the connection from Lt. Thomas Tracy, Sr. I to John Charles Whitaker, I and do not know enough about this line to accurately do so... if some one wishes to explore and or work on this angle let me know thank you.

Michael, this is precisely the kind of genealogical question that is best done by starting a new discussion under the profiles in question (e.g. the Lt. Thomas Tracy or John Whitaker, and then referencing the other profile[s]). That way, the co-managers and followers of those profiles will all see the questions/discussion ... and they are most likely to have the info -- or know where to find it.

Starting a new discussion topic is something *any* Geni member can do.

oops ok.. will move it there... sorry.

I have been patient for some days, Private User - and noticed no recalculation circle.

In fact I did wait for Geni to update, as I understood from last time some month ago, that Geni would make an automatical update.

To me it looks like a Geni bug to be solved by Geni. Because what's the path information worth in this way?

Besides Private User

the profile Christen Olesen, Fuurboe
- was added February 20, 2014 - 3 months ago.
- has previously been updated by a Curator and
- showed again an undirect path as "Christen Olesen is your fourth great uncle's sister's husband's brother." until a few hours ago - in stead of the direct path - my 4thGG.

So - Brox - maybe it's not I who am the problem - but the Genisystem : )

Private User
You are not alone.
It is a bug.
No amount of patience will magically fix the problem.
Give up now.

Henny: Try a "reverse path" from said ancestor to your father or mother, as appropriate. To do this, you open the ancestor's profile, click on the push-pin to set relationships in terms of him/her, then open the appropriate parental profile and find out what the path says. It's a short-term temporary "fix" and doesn't always result in a permanent one, but it should make you feel better. (You will need to click the push-pin again to reset it to yourself afterwards.)

Henny, - I said one week, which is seven days, and it is since the update of the path, not the profile. When the icon pops up a roll-over text tells when it was calculated.

Thank you, Alex Moes :)

And thank you all for your posts.

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I appreciate that "Ancestors" in my statistic now counts 13,137 - about 2,000 more than yesterday.

two quick questions.. I got a message in my inbox asking in broken english what my intrest in a old 1500 dutch line was and a invite to join the english verison of the dutch portal.. google translate is not the most effective way of dealing with the issue i have found is there a curator that is willing to translate? I don't speak dutch well at all. also I have found info on find a grave about a profile which leads me to debunk somthing that i had allready entered and i am not sure how to change it.. It seems some one in my family remaired and i didn't know about it til after the profile was made on my behalf no biggie i can add the 2nd wife or try to but the thing is she was adpoted so i am not sure how to handle her parents.. do I put latin for not known adpotee record in the parents field? How exactly does geni handle that?

some one said george holms but as far i as i know he's been having pc problems as of late is there another curator that could help translate the dutch.. of course I could ask the person in english I guess in the netherdlands right?