Jacqueli (in particular): As you may know, there are two things Curators can do on Geni to help preserve "known good" genealogical information:
-- lock individual "basic" fields for a profile.
-- lock the relationships connected to a profile.
(The profile image and the About description can also be locked, but those two are primarily for clarity and typically only done for "contentious" profiles.)
The Field locks prevent the values from being modified by anyone other than a Curator. Even after a profile is merged in, the original profile (which will have the MP-flag set to enable any of the various kinds of locks) will retain the previous values of locked fields. Typically there should be Source-tab references to support the "locked-in" value ... and there may be discussions or text in the About if there are strongly conflicting references for a field's value.
The Relationships Lock (RL) prevents any changes to the "connections" of a single profile: parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Only Curators can add to or remove profiles from that RL-ed profile.
When merging into a profile with the Relationship Lock set, all the profiles attached to the "incoming" profile will be disconnected; the net result will no changes to that immediate family group.
Note that the Relations Lock does not restricted changes to all connections of the rest of the immediate family. For instance: it does not prevent adding spouses to any of the children, nor does it prevent adding spouse to siblings. In addition, it does not prevent adding additional spouses to the parents or additional spouses to "primary" spouses. (e.g.: if the husband's profile is RL'ed, the wife could still have another husband added).
So to protect a whole "region", then, one asks for Relationship Locks on all of the "core" profiles, where each of those profile's "immediately family" is known to be both correct and complete.
When asking for Relationship Locks on profiles, one should consider where the "growing edges" might be; for instance, one might know that both parent's families are "complete", but only one of the children's family is known to be complete. In that cases, the RL could be set on both parents and on that one child ... but not on the other children (as their spouses & associated children might not yet be known).
Whew!
As y'all are working through this branch, consider where it might be appropriate to ask for Field and/or Relationship locks in order to preserve the research which is being done. Curators are most often may not be the experts in any particular branch and thus rely on the documentation attached to profiles and the expertise of those who know that particular 'branch' the best.
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