Template Letters to send to duplicating managers and mergers

Template Letter to send to newly duplicating users in the Medieval Tree:

Hello there

Please won't you get back to me about the duplicate profiles you're creating in the medieval tree?

I know it's well intentioned, and Geni can be confusing, because it's not like other genealogical sites. You do not have to enter into Geni all the ancestors you know, because a great many of them will already be there. Once you connect the nearest ancestors you can into the ONE world tree, you are connected to all the early ancestors who are already in the Geni world tree. As a rule of thumb, it's probable that if you have a profile before 1600, it's in the Geni tree already. Since the goal here is to create one world tree, we all work at having one profile per person. That means that all the duplicates have to get dealt with.

When the medieval duplicates get merged in, it takes us hours and hours -sometimes days and days - to clean up the tree conflicts and the data conflicts, as we merge in the rest of the line. This high up in the tree the potential for exponentially increasing Tree Conflict errors is far more work to fix than lower down. It also leaves the relatively well established Geni Medieval Tree in a permanent state of embarrassing chaos.

Rather come and join us on the project maintaining our shared medieval tree: https://www.geni.com/projects/Medieval-Tree-Clean-Up-Please-Park-Un... (I've sent you an invite). There's lots of work to be done for passionate historians, and you can manage in all the areas you're interested in as well by simply Requesting Management (Drop down menu from <Actions> button towards top right of each profile.)

Let us know what you think

Template Letter to send to newly merging users in the Medieval Tree:

Hello there

Please won't you get back to me about the duplicate profiles you're merging into the medieval tree?

I know it's well intentioned, but when the medieval duplicates get merged in, it takes us hours and hours -sometimes days and days - to clean up the tree conflicts and the data conflicts, as we merge in the rest of the line. This high up in the tree the potential for exponentially increasing Tree Conflict errors is far more work to fix than lower down. It also leaves the relatively well established Geni Medieval Tree in a permanent state of embarrassing chaos.

Rather come and join us on the project maintaining our shared medieval tree: https://www.geni.com/projects/Medieval-Tree-Clean-Up-Please-Park-Un... (I've sent you an invite) and put any Medieval duplicate profiles in this Discussion: https://www.geni.com/discussions/158450, & the Curators will figure out what to do with them before they get merged into the world tree.

Let us know what you think