ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Oops - you're the manager.:) Make it public and post back.

Sally, got the von Luders....

http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000009450555146?fsession_id=1...

This stack is very mergable. Any help appreciated.

Just a general note about family relations around Archibald Woods and Isabella (Gass or Goss) Woods. I am noticing several profiles built around this couple but not all of them are complete plus or minus a few generations. What I mean by that is the children don't all have their marriages and/or children listed and I am trying to match my 5th great grandmother Hannah Woods to an existing profile for her parents, Archibald and Isabella Woods with her husband and then their children listed. My merge requests are unanswered but this makes the difference between someone being my great grandparent and a 10th cousin 7 times removed through some wild relation path instead of direct great grandparent. OK. Perhaps some attention can be brought to that are of the big tree. Thanks. families affected Woods, Cowan, Gass.

Gregory, I'll help do what I can. I may be e-mailing you with questions, because I don't know anything about the family.

Gregory, I can now follow the line on the tree all the way from Archibald Woods to you, but it still says he's your 9th cousin, not a gr grandfather. Any ideas?

Gregory, I just looked at the relationship path between you and Archibald Woods. The 9th cousin 8 times removed path between the two of you is on your DAD's side, it looks to me, instead of through your MOTHER, which is the direct path to show he's your gr grandfather. So, you're related to him two ways. I don't know why it shows the path through your father instead of through your mother. But the path is definitely there.

Private profiles and no response from managers. Can anyone help?
http://www.geni.com/tree/index/6000000007373156643?highlight_id=600...

Nope, - to close to Geni users.

Bjorn: That's what I was afraid of. Thanks anyway.

Mike here. a relatively laid back member, who 2 or 3 years ago, input all my family back to the Richard Warren(1580-1628), from the Mayflower.
I've been bugged with merge requests since, and yesterday or today I gave in and allowed one to happen. Poof, my tree has shrunk, and now I'm about 4 generations short of Richard W. And there is a magnifier at my latest ancestor, blocking me from re-adding info till I pay into a Pro membership. I'm not sure if this is a "bug" or a "feature". I'd just like my tree back.

And once you allow a requester a merge, the invite/request goes away, and the name is gone, so I've got no way to backtrace them. :(

Suggestions ?? I've tried re-adding, and eventually, get stopped by the magnifier glass icon directing me to the merge center, and a payment request

Could you post some links to profiles that need our attention?

Merging profiles and cleaning up duplicates is not a question about being Pro or not, but about permissions where inviting to collaboration is the solution.

If public profiles the Curators can help you with merges, but I would also recommend you to check the collaborator list to the involved managers which you find in the media tab and invite some of these, - they should be able to help you.

Please assist with following links

http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000003441171670?return=bulk_c...
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000004955130126?return=bulk_c...
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000010616896086?return=bulk_c...

Thank you

I have this profile listed as a merge issue, in my merge issues link. When I go there I am unable to see what the merge issue is... Does any one else see what it might be? Here is the part of the tree with Jonathan Hills profile which, according to my menu, requires merging...
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000007725741287?resolve=1...

Correction...

I am sorry it is not a merge issue, it is a tree conflict... But I see no conflict yellow triangle... so where is the conflict?

Would someone be kind enough to merge these profiles for me?
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000007271085462?from%5Fflash=...

Sorry to bug you all... but here is another puzzling pair, in the Cole line... wondering which is correct? Both have documentation in the "about" space.
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/5511526924150119629?return=duplic...

Sally, I did the Amy Wing merge.

Please assist with following merges

http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000007834317988?return=bulk_c...
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000003441343632?return=bulk_c...
http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000001980173238?return=bulk_c...

Thank you

Sally, I found some information about Daniel Cole on these pages:

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/colefamily.html

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=royal...

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/r/u/Abbey-L-Fruth/WEBS...

Nowhere do I find any evidence or even a plausible theory of who Daniel's father might be. The first source I listed above provides evidence that his mother's name is Frances, which neither of the two profiles presently support. (This suggests to me that both profiles are wrong, or at least wildly speculative, regarding the parents.)

Regarding his wife Ruth, all the sources suggest that her maiden name was Chester, not Chandler.

I have just received an email from Geni saying that all of my public profiles in my family tree are up for grabs to be merged with lord knows who, in order to make your one Great Tree.

I went to my tree to see what is going on, and I find that Geni has made my grandparents' profiles public. Not my great gr gr grandparents, my father's mother and father. I think this is a security breach. I tried to change their profiles back to Private, but the button for doing so has disappeared. Let's have back, please, and what about a little honesty?

The pages on privacy say that I can switch profiles from public to private, but I can't.

In addiiton, Geni has constantly been notifying me of "matches" in "99 other trees" that when checked prove to be nothing more than the same or only a similar name. These ridiculous "matches" often lead the unaware to use the person/s in their own trees.

For example, over at Ancestry.com there are several public trees that contain my granduncle, who was an alcoholic ne'er do well who never set foot west of the Delaware River in his life. There is a clan in Minnesota who has claimed him as the husband of their grandmother and gotten themselves linked to my entire family, in their public trees at Ancestry. I am guessing that his name matched their own great grandfather's, which is fine--and there may even be a distant cousinly relationship---but my granduncle was not the man they claim him to be.

How are you proposing to keep this kind of error that this careless Minnesota family has created (due to Ancetry's "hints") from getting all over your Great Tree? I do not want my tree, which i have worked on for more than two years and which is *accurate,* to be merged with lord knows who because of goofs other people have made.

M.F-N I'll have to defer to the product team regarding your concerns about matches and merges by the curators, however I'd like to investigate your report that your grandparents' profiles have been made public -- this certainly should not be the case. If it was a relatively recent change, I can review the logs to determine how it happened. Was it your maternal grandparents, paternal, or both sets?

Sorry, I see now that you said your father's parents. I've checked our logs and it appears that these profiles have been public for at least six months, possibly even since you added them. Unfortunately it's been too long for me to find relevant changes in our logs, but you can see from the revisions that the "private" field has not been updated since the time that we've tracked revision history on profiles. I would suggest that you review a list of public profiles in your family group, and make private any that you do not wish to be shared with the Geni community: http://www.geni.com/list?group=family&shared_status=public

@Tammy. Thanks for all your valuable time and assistance. This is the type of cooperation and help that I love from my Geni collaborators and Curators. You have helped fix a big mess (at least to me).

Now being related to lots of historically significant people on both Father and Mother's family side 10 to 25 generations ago won't make me prone to wierd genetic disorders will it? LOL. OK. That is not funny. It might with a closer relation but it might explain my madness....

I think all it does for me, having historically significant people in my ancestry (also 10-25 generations or more back), is that it gives me this unhealthy interest in genealogy and history...

Thanks, Tammmy and Geoffrey... Gracias!

Samuel Kent

I have not completed the merge of this person because there are incorrect merges being proposed as part of the merge. This is the Kent family for which there is good documentation.

http://www.suffieldhistoricalsociety.org/families/kent.htm

I don't want to accept the merge and have even more chaos. Is there a curator who is interested in this early American family who will help figure out how to clean this mess up?

Mike--Thank you for looking.

I cannot change them back to Private because geni seems to have removed the button for making the profiles private again. In spite of their policy which I read, that you can change your grandparents, great grands, etc back to private if you wish.

Hum you are right they took the non-private off - thats not right - especialy in the 1st 3-4 generations as they say can be maintained as either public or private oh well.....

The make private option is not available in the lists like family group, and that is probably an error.

On profiles within your family group you have to open the edit window for the profile to get the option. It is probably easies to do it in the tree-view.