Someone has made their deceased ancestor PRIVATE and I cannot complete merges & so I now Need a curator please and thank you

Also, I have a question please:

What happens to MERGE REQUESTS that are waiting on the approval of someone who may or may not actually be active on Geni? I have many such merge requests outstanding.

Thank you in advance,
Cynthia

https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000011759516938

Nancy Self, born Pike or Polk...birth and death dates elsewhere:1771-1850.
This Geni user has made them 1913-1992

Thank you. I will leave this for tonight.

Thank you again.

https://www.geni.com/search/matches/6000000015324549022?page=1

Like this---merge requested...why does it have to go to someone for approval?

For historic profiles set as living by mistake, please post on this discussion:

https://www.geni.com/discussions/158890?msg=1099634

For merges that take a curator to resolve due to abandoned trees, curators service on this discussion:

https://www.geni.com/discussions/178003?msg=1199698

They are both “sticky” but you may want to “follow.”

Hope this helps.

I did some but not all of the merges requested around https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000012092467825?highligh...

There were a couple of names that did not match.

One of the trees was isolated but now is joined to the world family tree - Martha Viola "Ola" Henderson - I am following through with more merges there.

For the Levi Self tree, please resolve conflicting data.

I am very upset. I have people merging my tree with others with out my approval, I am trying to research each person before I add them and now people are adding to my tree without my permission and merging it. I have this problem on two other sites I thought this one would be different.

Heather, any time there are "communal trees", there will be people adding what they (think they) know. Here at Geni we at least have an organized discussion process where we can hash out whether such additions (or occasionally subtractions) are legitimate or not.

The only way to *make sure* nobody else adds anything to "your" tree is to keep it offline.

What happened to approving a merge?

Private User — on the Geni message system (go to my profile) send me links to the profiles you consider wrongly merged and I will look at them.

I so appreciate the work done here by everyone.

Private User -- I found the issues and have forwarded our message line to Erica, cause her merges look good to me, so y'all can discuss things directly.

Erica, thank you for those links— do I need to send some of these from this discussion there?

Your current request is complete as far as I can tell.

Thank you so much everyone

Where is the Zombie discussion please?
John Self

https://www.geni.com/discussions/158890 “Zombies please”

Private User -- I do remember once upon a time, permission/approval was required for Merges. But now - Curators can merge without anyone's permission - period.
AND - for any Profile that is Public and connected to the World Tree - believe anyone also on the World Tree can merge - definitely any Pro can merge without any approval needed.

Profiles in a separate Tree need the permission of a manager of the Profile or
in the Max Family of the Profile [someone correct me if I have that one wrong] -- OR can be done by a Curator.

Private Profiles need the approval of someone in the Max Family of the Profile or of a Manager of the Profile -- OR can be done by a Curator.

So sorry for your discomfort, cousin. I am a DNA confirmed match to Thomas Michael Little and he and i have been trying for some time to figure out our DNA match... I remember many years ago, corresponding with someone (Sharon Davis, a distant cousin whom I had never met but SHE lived in the same town as my ancestors---OUR ancestors)... she had "heard" from a cousin that I was searching for family and she was MOST happy and eager to help and so she wrote me a lovely letter, by hand and mailed...it was back in the 1980's before the internet...she wrote to me of each child of my great grandfather. Stated that Theodore had NO children....well I KNEW that to be incorrect. I was afterall, and AM, the great granddaughter of said Theodore. My grandfather Arvel was an ONLY child...he said it was "lonely"...

I have done several DNA tests and have been working on my Tree since 1977.

PLease UNDERSTAND that "YOUR" grandparent, cousin, etc, is ALSO the relative of thousands of others...Geni is a W
WONDERFUL platform. PRIVATE is ONLY for our children and other LIVING individuals who SHOULD remain private.

There are MANY times I TRY to "merge" a profile but am STOPPED by a Merge "REQUEST" and then what???The merge request SITS and waits...

Lois, I wish it were true but, no, any PRO cannot simply merge...

Thank you. I "feel" your concerns...I hear your wish to protect ...I only seek to find what is mine/my ancestry. I have longed to find my ancestors since a little girl. It is a journey. NOT a hobby. It is as MUCH a calling to me/for me as is motherhood, marriage, my Nursing degree/career. I think I have said enough. Thank you all for "listening."
Humbly yet tenaciously yours, Cynthia

I assure you, if you are related to Mike, the cousin connection is MUCH closer...and LIKELY an ancestor YET unidentified but I believe DNA genealogy AND GENI will be the catalyst... Heather Little is your 14th cousin once removed.
You
→ Freddie Ralph Hicks, Sr
your father → Arvel Yewell Hicks
his father → Theodore Hicks
his father → Sarah Ann Hicks
his mother → Martha Pacey Roberts
her mother → Mitchell Pool
her father → Mahulda Ann Pool
his mother → Martha Holloway
her mother → John Ballard, of Mecklenburg Co.
her father → Thomas Ballard, III
his father → Thomas Ballard
his father → Col. Thomas Ballard, Speaker, House of Burgesses
his father → Thomas Ballard, Sr.
his father → Elizabeth Ballard (Townsend)
his mother → Thomas Townsend, Sr.
her father → Elizabeth Mansfield
his sister → Joseph Mansfield
her son → Elizabeth Wheat
his daughter → Joseph Wheat
her son → Basil Wheat
his son → Harris Harvey Wheat
his son → Mary Ann Hudson (Wheat)
his daughter → John D. Hudson
her son → Samuel L. Hudson, Sr.
his son → John Hudson
his son → Samantha J. (Hudson) Henderson
his daughter → Bertha Elnora (Jones) Spencer
her daughter → John Duane Spencer
her son → Jerry Lynn Spencer
his son → Heather Little
his daughter
BTY---all BLUE meas BLOOD related.

*means

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 - I said "for any Profile that is Public and connected to the World Tree - ... any Pro can merge without any approval needed." --
Please Note - my statement that "any Pro can merge without any approval needed" was Clearly about merging with Public Profiles on the World Tree --
Considering that I then went on to discuss Profiles not on the World Tree, and Private Profiles - all of which I said needed permission OR to be done by a Curator - hard to understand how you so totally misunderstood!!

Tho I did leave out the situation where one is trying to merge with a Master Profile, as opposed to a Public or a Private Profile. There, sometimes one can, sometimes it needs a Curator.

Found on your Guest book, Lois: Jørgen Nielsen Berg February 3, 2018 at 5:17 PM

G'day Lois, I like your explanation and outlining of what constitute max family and close family with regards to where you believe that it is OK to set yourself up as "manager" . Is that an official GENI definition or just your qualified guess?

Lois Lubin is your 6th great aunt's fourth great nephew's wife's third cousin.
You
→ Geneive Melba Emerson
your mother → Ossie Mae Pratt
her mother → Maudie Mae Pratt
her mother → Margaret Frances Crawshaw
her mother → Sarah Brown
her mother → Richard White
her father → Mary White
his mother → James Venable Moorman
her brother → Nancy Ann Moorman
his wife → Frances Nalle
her sister → Susan-Ann Gatewood Pease
her daughter → Leila "Lilly" Pease
her daughter → Mayme (Mary Susan) Barritt
her daughter → Lela Louise Bentley
her daughter → Kimberly Wycliff Bentley
her son → <private> Jacoby
his wife → <private> Jacoby (Goodman)
her mother → <private> Goodman
her father → <private> Goodman (Wolfberg)
his father → <private> Shapiro (Goodman / Wolfberg)
his sister → <private> Lubin (Shapiro)
her daughter → <private> Lubin
her son → Lois Lubin
his daughter

I dare suspect that were you a bit more active and collaborative and willing, the "relationship" would be less red, green...and perhaps a bit more true blue. And YET, I am "ok" with this...knowing that I am open to discussion and always willing to help AND ask for assistance, for the benefit of a PROPER, TRUE ONE "tree"