Jewish Goldmines that need Mining

Thanks Randy Schoenberg!!

Quite a few people work on Dutch trees on a regular basis - the more the merrier of course! I would just encourage people to check if a particular person already has a profile before adding them so as to not duplicate efforts. Private User is one of the many who work hard on them :))

I prefer to work on Lithuania and Ukraine and focus geographically. Both are terribly underserved on Geni whereas thankfully many are working on Germany, Austria, Czechoslavakia, and some on Netherlands and Poland.

As I never tired of saying, 3 million Jews emigrated from the Russian Empire between 1880 and 1920 and their descendants count many millions now.

I have a large (well large for me) Dutch tree (and little time) Is there a way to upload a .ged file or do I have to enter each member or a tree one by one?

Russell Vaughan Gedcom's aren't currently supported by Geni so they must be added one by one.

What a shame. I have been waiting for them to support the GEDCOM format as after 10 years of using it I am getting used to sharing my family tree in a standard format. I just don`t like the idea of re-entering each member of my tree manually as too many mistakes creep in. Do you know If/When GENI plan to support GEDCOM.

Russell Vaughan

I know there has recently been some discussion regarding possibly allowing gedcom's again in some capacity. Perhaps one of the curators knows more and can address your question.

I do know just from reading the boards that it led to two main problems in the past:

1. There was a bug that made many profiles of deceased people uploaded by gedcom private instead of public and hence the Geni "zombie" was born

2. mass amounts of duplicate profiles.

Honestly, adding them manually doesn't take that long once you get going ;)

Wendi, as you say the main problem was a massive amount of duplicate profiles. We are STILL merging many of these, that are over 5-8 years old. Last month alone, the Curator Team did about 150,000 merges!

Geni wants to re-enable GEDCOM imports. This has been defined as an actual goal by management. BUT there are a number of important steps and pieces that have to be completed before this can be done, without undoing all of the progress made.

Shmuel-Aharon Kam (Kahn / שמואל-אהרן קם (קאן,

It was like closer to 300,000 merges last month.

Kevin

Russell Vaughan you can set up a project (or use this one) to get help manually importing your data. You'd be amazed at how quickly it can all get done (and with large trees, many of the branches will already be on Geni). You can even upload the data as regular documents on the project page. For a good example of a collaborative project, see the Krakow project at http://www.geni.com/projects/Jewish-Families-of-Krak%C3%B3w-Poland/... that Pam Karp is running.

Russell Vaughan

Just checking if you need any assistance with your project ?

Here's a good British Sephardic tree for Nunes-Martinez. http://www.whippfamily.co.uk/FH%20Website3/toc10.html

Hershfeld Family Tree
http://www.hershfeld.com/family/index.php?ctype=gedcom&ged=Hers...