Fake Profiles And Mergers

Geoff. Baines --- I think I found the two profiles you're talking about (it's easier if you link directly in the discussion) -- but I'm not seeing any problems that were caused by the recent merges.

What was the issue?

Hi Anne, Alice Booth is 24 years older than William Ford and they lived a long way from each other in 1620s I don't see how they knew each other. The whole point of this merge by marriage by a manager I have found to be CHEATING with other profiles in the past is for the sole reason to make a link with present day Americans with British landed gentry and a British royal line something that I consider to be widespread. Is GENi now a silly game to link every American with the British royal family or a serious website for seeking your family tree members. I have bought a new computer today and will be looking into the marriage further while I am on holiday in Wales. I don't expect to find anything and I do not think the manager who merged the two Anne Booths and then married Anne Booth to William Ford has any information either.

I undid the merge and made MP's of both

Alice Booth is not the same as Alice Ford

Geoff. Baines you may wish to relinquish management of the wife of William Ford

Actions menu > manager options > X next to name

And put in my name as the person to "take over" (I'll be looking into documentation for the family but I sincerely doubt it was landed gentry)

It looks like an old attempt, not new:

From http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi...

"The Brett Family" by L. B. Goodenow, on page 36, says "William Brett's
wife was probably daughter of William and Alice (Booth) Ford, who were
married in England, 1601. Alice was daughter of William and Elizabeth
(Warburton, daughter of Sir John Warburton) Booth, being their sixth
child"

I think I've sufficiently disambiguated the wife of William Ford from Alice Booth, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Warburton, daughter of Sir John Warburton) Booth. The "real" Alice Booth was born 1579, the wife of William Ford was born (according to one garbled account) about 1602. Since that same garble has her marrying Ford in 1611, I don't trust it either; the real "target" is Margaret, wife of “Elder” William Brett, of Bridgewater , who was a "Man of Kent."

The Men of Kent were of good, middle class / yeoman stock and puritan in their beliefs. William Brett in fact seems to have been well educated, but there's no university affiliation I've found so far.

Thanks, Erica Howton, for getting to this -- I was planning on it, but this is really your field, so that you got to it first was a good thing.

Just an inordinate interest in Puritans! Me and sarah vowell books

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&...

Just parking here Elizabeth Booker

I peeled the Maryland family off the Puritans, want to be able to come back to it and see if I can find more connects.

Geoff, sometimes the woman is that much older. Not saying this is true here, But a famous one was King Henry the 2 and Eleanor , his 1st wife. He was 14 when he married her and she was way older then him However, since I don't know much about this , I will leave to Erica and the others to check this out. It definitely doesn't look right.

My latest fake profile I have found is Anne Standish born 1505 with a long line of a American descendants called Carpenter she had been changed from Anne Hasall and then given new parents. The husband was Henry Hasall and his real wives are Anne Molyneux and Elizabeth Clifton.

Hi, I was wondering if This Brett family tree could be related to me. I am from Nottingham England and My sir name is Brett. I have done all my family tree on my mums side of the family but cant seem to get past my grandad, Arthur Brett 1912 - 1959. I know I'm a descendent from the Brett's from France who settled in the UK, I think the Stamford Brett Village in summerset England but I cant find the link on the family tree on there. If anyone can trace back to my Grandfather I would love you to let me know. He died when my dad Patrick Brett was young so he don't know much about his family