Confirming profile from other tree's

Started by Private User on Saturday, December 12, 2015
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Private User
12/12/2015 at 1:24 AM

I have a problem with this confirming profiles from other trees from other sites. How do you know if the information on those profiles are correct. ?

Foe example from my own stupidity. I was looking for children for my great grandfather , found a son on another profile and merged the profiles. This was a year or two ago. Now I find that this son might not be the son of my great grandfather. But in the meantime this info has spread to a lot of other tree's. So now these people might be sitting with incorrect information that is now messing up their trees.

My point is do not merge or confirm profile's until you are certain they are correct. If there is no documentation to prove the information is correct on the profile, do not join the profiles together.

For it causes a large mess that one has to now fix up!

regards Karen

12/12/2015 at 4:55 PM

Hi Karen,

When Geni spots a potential match between two profiles it gives you the opportunity to compare those profiles (be they Geni profiles or MyHeritage ones), this will show you the data from the two profiles along side each other in one screen however this is not all the data from each profile so you are also given links to each profile so that you can check the full profiles.

If after looking at both profiles you are not satisfied that the match is accurate you can either cancel it or leave it in limbo (ie "I will decide later" option).

I cannot tell if you have decided in retrospect that the two profiles of your great grandfather which you merged were not actually profiles of the same person or if you doubt the son of that profile which you merged is correct. Either way you can get help from Curators to either disconnect the unproven son or separate the two men who you merged.

If other people (presumably on other websites) copy undocumented profiles from Geni to build their own trees then they are very foolish indeed and you should not feel guilty that they have but data because of it. People have been copying each others wrong data since long before Geni came along :)

12/12/2015 at 4:56 PM

Sorry that should be "...bad data..."

Private User
12/13/2015 at 3:07 AM

It is just frustrating Alex. It is not only on Geni that this happens.

The profile was of the same person, but after doing more research I am in doubt if the parents are his. For I have not being able to find document proof of this fact. Cannot find his baptism or death records.

Secondly the one son who I merged believing it to be right because all the information matched, now I have found documents for the person with the same dates but different parents.

So if he is incorrect there is a whole lot of his decedents as well to take care of.

But I will sort it all out!

12/13/2015 at 10:32 AM

> My point is do not merge or confirm profile's until you are certain they are correct

As far as i know nothing can be confirmed 100%... ever. Government records can also be incorrect, some people were engaging in illegal activities necessitating forging documents, and one strange occasions there were weird anomalies such as two children with the same name.

12/13/2015 at 12:09 PM

... Which is why genealogy is always a work in progress!

If you need help correcting your tree (disconnect usually) just be very specific with links to the profiles, action needed, and post to this discussion we know to monitor

http://www.geni.com/discussions/142108
"Attention curators please assist"

(any assistance welcome)

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