Are we any closer to resolving "ghost profiles"?

Not to do with "book matches.". Glad to see them in geni though.

I won't be glad to see the "ghost profiles" until we can actually *do* something with them. ("We" as in members other than Curators.)

Stay tuned. :)

As the descendant of several dozen very early American families, the "ghost profiles" are all over my family tree too. And they take forever to merge. But I'm just studiously ignoring the pain and smiling and merging :)

when can i stop playing excorist in my own tree?

very soon

I hope so.. I don't like starring in my own horror films :)

Michael - since I am serving colonial American families, both north & south, believe me, I'm merging as fast as I can.

So flowers, thank you's, and cookies to keep us at it will change your channel "a lot faster.". Hint.

Thank you to everyone for your patience! We'll get through this together. :)

Erica Howton thanks for the reminder about flowers should I pick up some for you guys as well as some choclate when I pick up mom's ftd order for sunday?

By the way it's not that I don't merge I try it's just too much of a hassle.. I won't complain about that here though.. Yes I did do a few with success though and when every one can change things back at will it kinda defeats the use...

Michael - it's not true that anyone can just change things back.

If "it's too much of a hassle" to merge, but you're upset about changes, why not try documenting your tree more?

Profile notes are the single best way to keep the tree orderly that anyone can do.

I,ve tried. But murphy,s law keeps getting in the way.. Lol my stubborn irish daddy,s side for example.. Irish records fried.. I could go on. But i agree notes are a good start. But this topic is about ghost profiles

And some times the most well intentioned people make mistakes.. And no i,m not really upset right at least not over the just done merge.. My nephew who we had to have the we dont drop the bad works in public talk with that i,m more upset with right now.

Its not so much the people making the changes i,m mad at.. Well maybe one or two people who are not known for accuracy but thats off topic.. We are talking about ghosts with no or little info that say private on them for what ever reason.. Family choice or not...

And as maven pointed out books on myhertiage i am finding lots of my ancestors prior To 1900 in them.. Dubvous accuracy of course..

Hi, I just read this thread because I am curious what a "ghost profile" means?

is this an example of one? He has about 10 sons with the same name who appear to be the same person. I thought maybe a few bad merges??

Allen Shrewsbury

I Have actually been trying to match up a few profiles related to his and his looks to need some work. I contacted both profile managers as I did not feel confident enough to merge all of the Allen Shrewsbury's with each other.

Anyway, just wondering.
also, I noticed he has about 24 Smart Matches.

Okay, thanks.

=)

Hi Jamey

No, Allen Shrewsbury and his duplicates are run of the mill old duplicate entries that need to be merged together, by "anyone." They are public / deceased.

"Ghost" profiles are private and show as white nodes in the tree. You can see they are there but you can see no details.

New ones are part of an enhancement project Geni is working on. Old ones are "zombies" -- errors in data entry or original GEDCOM uploads where historic profiles are showing as white nodes. Those can be resolved on the "Zombies please" discussion for curator attention.

Your duplicate Allen Shrewsbury's do not need a curator to resolve.

N.B. Personally I would "source" the parent profiles "and then" clean up the chlldren.

Thanks for explaining it to Erica Howton ☺
I went ahead and merged the Allen Shrewsbury duplicates.

I think part of the confusion is I have <private> ones all over my tree And I automaticly and some times wrongly lump them in with something you are working on rather then find the real root. (privacy etc etc)

I can chime in and say that working in geni with these ghost profiles is difficult. I keep expecting to get information from MyHeritage. Instead I am lured into an information void. When will this be complete?

Private User, there will be more information and options available very soon.

The ghost profiles connected to the big tree should now be public

Nasty things are back to being <private> again. :-P

Whatta tease !

If there's a particularly infested area, post a "nearby" and I'll give it a quick clean.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who is helping with the merging of the newly-public profiles. I know the WFT is a bit of a mess right now, but we're getting there!

Though I admit that revisiting and revisiting the same Hubbard lines and Hingham families is making me internally scream a little. ;)

I am on Day 8 I think of steady merging. I'm also finding a lot of problems and other duplicates along the way.

We'll need help from everyone in being diligent in case a few errors slip in during this period of a lot of merges.

Hit my first of these no manager profiles this evening.... what a rabbit hole. From what I can tell there are still private copies out there.... so everything I did in the last 3 hours might need more merges.