James Murphy and Judith "Julia" Thompson

Can you please cut and paste a link in the discussion thread. If the merge is incorrect and was fairly recent, a curator can undo it.

If the profiles are living, then send me the link.

James Murphy, of Prince Edward Island

Judith Murphy

James Michael Murphy, of Brookline MA

James Michael Murphy, of NB & MT

These are some of the links which have been changed by the merges.

Hi there .I have my great uncle James Murphy in your discussions ,but his parents were James Murphy and Mary Donohoe.. James was born in Tullow Co.Carlow Ireland ,Not sure if there is a link ..but i only know james was born in Tullow on the 25 august 1872 in Tullow .I know have any other info on his life after that..

Even when it says it cannot assign parents, you can go into Profile View and Edit Profile in Relationships and Remove the incorrect parent relationship.

You have to remember to Save after removing the incorrect parents.

Let me know if you need help.

I looked at the first profile James Murphy, of Prince Edward Island and didn't see a recent merge that I could Undo. The Dec 2010 revision may have caused a problem.

Okay, I see the problem. 15 parents is daunting.

Here is one undo merge results:

James Murphy

James Michael Murphy, of NB & MT

Unknown Profile

James Michael Murphy, of NB & MT

I did another undo merge, but I think it was the same undo. There are still a large number of parents of the one profile.

Let me know if James Murphy is correct please.

I meant -- Unknown Profile since this is the one that you manage Wanda Signe Vermeers

I'm going to write the other managers and have them join this discussion because the other profile has way too many parents for anyone to sort out without input from the families.

The James Michael Murphy I manage is the son of James and Judith
"Julia" Thompson. I don't know how so many parents were added for him and he is also listed as his own brother.

I just checked the James Michael Murphy that I manage and it seems to be alright now. Thank you for your assistance. I hope the other James Michael Murphy profile will be fixed also.

Yes, I will email the other managers because the other profile is a problem. I'm glad I could help. The undo merge is a new tool and we can't unmerge before I think August 2014.

I don't know why people merge profiles with these REALLY common Irish names. I see it a lot.

@ John Murphy

Birth: 1876
Death: August 22, 1917 (41)
Ypres, Flemish Region, Belgium (killed in WW1)
Immediate Family:
Son of James Murphy and Elizabeth Cunningham Murphy
Husband of Rachel Murphy
Brother of James Michael Murphy; Elizabeth Murphy Wilson; Margaret Murphy; Mary Murphy Adamson and Jessie Murphy Bryce
Added by: Gillian McMillan on March 31, 2010
Managed by: Gillian McMillan (Murphy)

This was my grandfather, his brother was NOT James Michael Murphy, but James Cunningham Murphy, 1882-1932, Prestwick, m Janet Scott, children James, David, Jean, Nettie, Elizabeth, William, May, Jessie. If you would advise me how I could send the family tree as a pdf

Private User - I'll send you a private message with my email.

Thank you for responding so quickly! I can help you sort this out.

@ John Murphy

Birth: 1876 , Slammannan, Stirlingshire
Death: August 22, 1917 (41)
James Cunningham Murphy, 1882-1932, b Slammannan, Stirlingshire,
d Prestwick,

Hi Wanda Signe Vermeers. Hatte Blejer on hiatus

I have 4 seperate James Murphy in my family tree. I didnt merge any of these and havent touched these profiles in 1+years.

I did receive an email an email from Private User stating

Re: James Michael Murphy

Managers of James Michael Murphy,

I am contacting you about this profile: James Michael Murphy, of NB & MT

this is not the brother of my grandfather, John Murphy, 1876-1917. His brother was James Cunningham Murphy, 1882-1932, died in Prestwick Scotland. My grandfather only had one brother

Could Gillian have merged them?

How should I proceed in unmerging them? Is there a way to block this from happening?

Trevor John Clowry

Please hold OFF. You just disconnected wives & children from someone else's James Michael Murphy, of NB & MT

Give us a few minutes to work on it!

James Murphy, of Cork

Needs data & parents

Folks - between emails and posts in this discussion group, I have been gathering information to work on the much merged James Michael.

@Erica - I will forward to you the private messages I got with additional information. Thanks for catching this!

We will MP all of them so they cannot be merged without a curator seeing them.

Trevor John Clowry - the more information that Geni users put on the profile and the surrounding profiles, the easier it is to prevent erroneous merges and to untangle families that are merged. That means dates and locations for birth and death and an About that also gives a brief biography.

James Murphy

Trevor John Clowry if we could trouble you to re enter your James' spouse & parents, and location data in the profile, we'll easier put this family back together.

I am very sorry for the smerge. By use of the curating MP tool it won't happen again.

A different James H Murphy, of Cork

Yet another from Cork James Murphy, of Castletownbere

James Murphy

Private User

This is one of yours. Please fill in more field data so we can rejoin him to the rest of his family correctly.

Hi
received another tranche of highly implausible "matches" today, mainly from the US, wrong dates, names, etc. Can the criteria not be tightened?

Gill

Private User - Geni has discussed improving matches for a long time. We are hopeful that this will happen, but I can't tell you when. In the meantime, here are things that we do to help:

(1) reject all the bad matches
(2) make sure that there are dates and locations in the profiles that do have a lot of matches due to a common name
(3) get a curator to MP profiles that are reasonably complete that are prone to being mismerged; there is a special discussion to ask or write one of us an email on Geni
(4) use the display name to uniquely name the profiles based for instance on location, as Erica has done above, e.g., James H Murphy, of Cork.

Any other suggestions Erica?

Thats exactly right.

Rejecting bad matches pays off in less errors for everyone. But the more complete the profile the less chance of a bad match -- and also easier to decide whether to reject / accept.

It appears that had I contributed to the mess by posting two photos of my great uncle James P Murphy in the profile of this James M Murphy. I apologize. The James P Murphy I mention was born 1884, son of James P Murphy and Elizabeth J Murphy, and was husband of Agnes O'Malley. I'm tempted to delete the two photos from James M Murphy's profile immediately, but have a concern about messing things up further and so will hold off until asked to do so. B-

Adding to my post of 2/5/2015, even if you do not know the exact dates and locations for your relative with a common name, put in a circa date by working backwards from descendants and put in a general location for place of birth and place of death. Even probably Ireland or probably Virginia are good possible locations.

You can Edit Location to type in something like "Ireland or Pennsylvania" if it's unclear if they were born in Europe or America.