ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Dea, Geni will not do anything for at least a year. You can report them as an abandoned tree under More Actions on their profile but you just have to wait for Geni to release the profiles and then claim them.

Jeff, I had one case today. one side of the merge was not a collaborator so I looked, sure enough no activity so I requested management. Had the option to take one or all 26. I took them all so other merges could be done and will share management with anyone who wants them. I have been asking Geni for notifications but they have taken no action :-(

OK, well I think I am going to do a Contact File just like I have for my physical research...Who and when I contact, and if I get a response. This one will also have a spot for When the person was last active. Then maybe I will be able to keep track better. I have 7 posts out with no response, but none inactive more than 11 months.

I just submitted a request to notify a person who reports abandoned trees when they are freed up. Hopefully it will happen but I have asked before. Maybe the new help center will do some good. They have been responsive on my requests so far.

http://www.geni.com/discussions/87412?page=6 -- what happens when a profile is reported as abandoned.

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Ashiya, one of only two Geni staffers to serve all us Geni users, explained the process in the post I linked above.

Maria, My issue is not knowing when profiles are released. Unless you make a list somewhere and go back and check you don't know if they have been released or not.

Sally, are you sure? One is a female, with a husband named William. The other is a male with no spouse. Should I make the male a female? Or the other way around. Just don't want to make any mistakes!

Yes, I know, Eldon. Geni is working on a bounce-back that will tell the submitter that the profile has been resolved. We need this in several other functions, so they want to get it right before releasing it.

@ Sally Yes...Sex change operation! Had that problem with a Pelatiah in my family tree...LOL

Sally, did you request collaboration with Donald Kurtz Browne, II ?

@ Sally, Capt. Nathaniel Thomas husband of Mary (Appleton) Thomas Parents of Capt. Nathaniel Thomas Jr.

Sally,
Lois is 100% femaie and merged for you.
John Fish is merged.
Nathaniel Thomas -- looks like father and son to me, so I haven't done anything with them.

@ Sally, I looked at the profiles you listed for Capt. Nathaniel Thomas - one is Capt. Nathaniel Thomas husband of Mary (Appleton) Thomas. They are Parents of Capt. Nathaniel Thomas Jr. Two different people, two generations, same name.

Sally,
Persis is done, and so is Elisha.

What Dea is say is that the two Nathaniel Thomas profiles are not the same and should not be merged. They are father and son. It is why I did not merge them earlier.

Maria / Jenna / other curators who have looked at this:

Might I suggest one of you makes the two Nathaniel Thomas profiles MPs with curator notes so that they are NOT merged?

Sally, I did both merges and went with Susanna on the name.

Sally, I did the Churchill merge, went with the documented dod, and edited the places of birth and death to remove USA.

Sally, you're quick.. I was going to rewrite part of that.. It is possible on the second profile that the guy married two sisters with similar names, but I say that it is more likely that it's a variation.

Sally,
Regarding your two Nathaniels, I have created MP for each one with a warning not to merge the two, as they are father and son.

Sally, I believe Zeruiah is female -- could this be the same person?
http://archives.mainegenealogy.net/2010/04/north-yarmouth-intention...
Joshua Cromwell and Zeruiah Thomas, 22 Oct. 1748.

As far as Zenas is concerned, I believe that would be a male. I have found references to a Zenas Thomas who married an Eleanor Savage in early 1800's. (see http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?zenas::savage::3...)

I have fixed the gender on both profiles, but, not knowing anything about this area of the tree, have not added the sources I just mentioned.

Re Deborah Jacob and the two Nathaniel Thomas.

This one has been running for a few days with at least two curators involved - Jenna and Maria - if not more. I was previously involved with some messaging between Jenna and myself.

Thanks to Maria for creating the two MPs as I suggested. This has helped a lot.

I think I finally fixed the generation issue by breaking the marriage link between Deborah Thomas and Capt. Nathaniel Thomas

Two other relatively minor points remain:

1. Dorothy Thomas either has the wrong birth date or is in the wrong generation. I do not have edit access to that profile.

2. What is the maiden name of Deborah Thomas ? The profile has Jacobs; the display name and About Me have Jacob. [I appreciate that these could have been somewhat interchangeable at the time]

Sally,
re: Zenas Thomas -- His profile is public and he is marked as deceased. The profile manager IS an ACTIVE Geni user -- last online in January. Have you sent her a collaboration request? Curators will step in gladly when the profile manager is either inactive or unresponsive but collaboration is the first resort and curators the last resort.

Sally,
both the profiles for Zeruiah are managed by you. You are right, you should merge them together.

Dear Sir or Madam,

I have accidentally merged two trees, but afterwards I found out that these two trees are not identical. However, I would be really grateful if you could split those two trees.

Specifically it is profile of Karel Prokes (Karel Bohumil Prokes) which doesn't belong to my tree. More precisely Karel Prokes (Karel Bohumil Prokes) is not the son of Karel Prokeš (http://www.geni.com/people/Karel-Proke%C5%A1/6000000001208048937) and Marie Prokešová (born Jurčagová) (http://www.geni.com/people/Marie-Proke%C5%A1ov%C3%A1/60000000012080...).

Actually, I have tried to change "relationships" in "edit profile" section, but I was unable to do so. Although I clicked on the "remove" button after I had selected relationship with parents, nothing happened.

Please can you help me?

Sincerely,

Jan Prokeš

Jan, I will try to correct it

Jan, I have disconnected Karel from his parents, can you please check?

re: Maria Edmonds-Zediker post
2/13/11 at 2:59 PM
I have done that, thank you for your suggestion.

Thank you very much.

@sally, if you could post the profile urls for those you wish were MPs we will see what we can do.

My secondary source is, Genealogies of the Teel Family of New England and of the Family of David Thomas of Middleboro, Ma
together with the ancestry of Frank Herbert Teel and of his wife Grace Carroll Thomas
and a register of descendants
of Gershom Teel, Banjamin Swan, Horatio Nelson Thomas and Patience Howes
compliled by John Marshall Raymond; pub 1964, Runnymeade Press, Palo Alto, CA
Also am using (copies) copied directly from Middleboro vital Stats, mostly hand written, family bibles, History of The Town of Middleboro, MA, By Thomas Weston, pub 1906, Cambridge Press and History of Swabsea Massachusetts 1667-1917, cokmpliled and edited by Otis Olney Wright. This last volumn was most usefull in dealing with allied familes (These last 2 sources have been particularly useful since they have church registers in them)