
Don’t link any profile to you artificially to add to project.
See https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229705887-How-can-I-add-pro...
You may add any public profile that you manage or collaborate on to a project. If you are not a manager or collaborator, a request is sent to the profile manager(s) to add the profile to the project. Simply select "Invite to Project" via the Actions button to send a request.
If you don’t get a response after a reasonable time frame, ask a curator to add for you. Note: only public / deceased profiles can be added to geni projects.
Here is the situation. I created a special project - Castro’s Colony - which consists of Alsatian, German and Swiss immigrants to Medina County Texas ca 1844. I noticed that there was intermarriage with many Germans in New Braunfels Texas. Prince Solm founded New Braunfels ca 1846, so I created a Prince Solm’s Colony as a special project. I am confident that a number of my Castro profiles are linked to that colony. My problem is that I have eome 850 Castro profiles and there appears no way to search them to find the linkages.
One can always start an unrelated tree from Research > Create a branch and then add it a Geni project.
https://www.geni.com/family-tree/create_branch
But expect you’ll hopefully quickly encounter profile duplicates already on geni - which Is exactly the situation you want. So you need to do it slowly / carefully.
I can relate to what you’re saying, and this is how I handle it, because I’m acutely aware of same name / not the same person issues.:)
Let’s say there’s a Yoder cousin I’m interested in finding out how I’m related. If I search just on the surname, , geni gives me 27,205 results. Well, that’s impossible. :):). But it does suggest that I should be able to “hook in”.
So I’ll create a branch, small family group, add to project, and then use SmartMatch and FamilySearch to look for grandparents. This always seems to work out (eventually). I index separate “”line starter families” to avoid more duplication and show the tree tops.
I think other people may have different strategies, and I’m interested in hearing them.
Thanks for the suggestion.I am unsure, however, whether I want a new family branch on my plate. Speaking of strategies, I have used a method to add a profile to a project when I do not manage that profile. Simply create an identical sibling, add that sibling to the profile, and then merge that sibling back in. Voila, you do not have to wait for unresponsive managers or bug curators.
I have found a solution. The bulk of Castro’s immigrants came from France. All of Prince Solm’s colonists. came fom Germany. I went to Ancestry and searched for all persons born in France and who died in New Braunfels. I already have found one who is in my tree. If any of his descendants married a descendant of a Prince Solm colonist, then I have my entree.
Yay! Are you adding term to project?
Capt. Henry’s projects are
https://www.geni.com/projects/Prince-Solm-s-Colony-New-Braunfels-Texas/4495957
https://www.geni.com/projects/Castro-s-Colony/4495540
I’m tagging Amanda Torrey (Moyer) UZ9855520 to this discussion, she just started a regional project also.
https://www.geni.com/projects/GEORGIA-SALZBURGERS/4495983
Capt Henry Edward Heater there is another search screen that might be useful for you: https://www.myheritage.nl/research/collection-40000/geni-world-fami...
It offers a bit different search criteria from the Geni search screen.
You can also search Geni for public profiles using Google by adding site:geni.com to your search screen.
On your question in https://www.geni.com/discussions/271575?msg=1661324
You could create a branch to create profiles and add them to a project to make it easier to find them again. When you find a connection later you can connect them to your tree.
Capt Henry Edward Heater and Erica Howton
I'm still working with the system here in Geni, but every day I learn more. In my case there were 4 ships that were brought from Europe under Oglethorpe and Reverend Boltzius to create a religous, communal colony from people expelled from the bishopric of Salzburg in Austria. These were people dedicated to pushing back against what they considered a Catholic tyranny, so 20,000 people refusing baptism were expelled from their homes to become Lutheran. 300 of these followed Rev Boltzius to Georgia and became Evangelical Lutherans. That's a long story short. After years of hostile Indians, dysentary, and an intense epidemic of malaria they became financially successful working communally making more money than coastal plantation owners dependent on slave labor. The Salzburgers did not believe in slavery, but their lifestyle was challenged and they were literally forced to buy slaves. Their solution was to adopt them into their families and baptize them into their community. Rev Boltzius and his family died from the diseases there as well as that of his assistant minister. But as a business the thrived and made up 80% of colonial Georgia and here we are today.
I'm attempting to reach out to the trees to find descendants of Salzburgers and create their own community finding the ancestors that stepped off the ships in Savannah. I'm giving their descendants a badge :)
NOTE: I'm part of your tree so don't qualify for your study, but like Salzburg, your original settlers came from a place, Alsace. I think you are working on a truly fascinating project!
Amanda Torrey (Moyer) UZ9855520 - great story, thank you. I had no idea about this bit of history.
I did notice the somewhat-common goals on these projects.
Job Waterreus - thank you. I’m always forgetting how powerful external search engines can be on finding geni profiles.
Hey Henry! Thank you so much! Unfortunately I used up Ancestry's good will earlier this year and was thinking of going in next year. I spent more money than I intended on tests and both myheritage and geni...I live on a budget :p
I appreciate your help! I was going to tease you about Amazon ;) that you were reading too much...but thought better of it. Sometimes I can be tactless.
warmly