Understanding The Timeline & Events

12/21/2009 at 5:06 AM

Every time you add someone & include their birthday then they already have an event on their profile. Of course "the child" & both parents appear under "people". If grandpa & grandma & maybe some aunts & uncles were there you can edit this event & add them. When you edit this event & add people...it appears on all their profiles too.

Again you can state the date, location & people who attended. You can also add a description, photos, videos & comments.

When it comes to adding photos or videos...you can either upload new ones or link to some you've uploaded previously.

If you add schools & include dates these will automatically become events. If you add jobs & include dates these will automatically become events. If you add someone's wedding date this event will be automatically added to both profiles (husband & wife). And if you edit one it'll automatically edit the other. This is also true if it's a holiday & several went...if you edit one event you edit all duplicate versions of it. Finally if you add someone's death date & burial date that'll create 2 events...death of & burial of. Whoever was there when the person died could be added under death of & whoever was there for the funeral could be added under burial of.

For things like trips to Disneyland or sea cruises...there's no where on the profile to add them & dates. So for things like this you have to actually create an event...name it...etc.

Every profile or memorial has a mini version of this timeline on it specific for that person. If you go up top & click on the tab "timeline" you'll see all these mini versions combined together. And as with I believe all tabs there's some links underneath...family, friends & your own. These are filters. Then on the side of the page are even more filters.

If you got any questions...feel free to post 'em. :)

Joe Brous Buttrill

10/25/2010 at 9:11 AM

I recently added schools to my profile. Under the Schools section there are three boxes for the location of the school. The first box is a drop-down menu for selecting a country. The other two boxes are free-form, presumably for state and city. I selected United States for the country and entered the state and city.

As noted above, when a school is entered on your profile with dates, an event is created, which is what happened to me. When I looked at my timeline, there was an event "Joe Buttrill started attending..." However, when I looked at the location of the event, only the school's city and state appeared.

I editted the event, and expanded the location fields, which are Place Name, Country, State/Province, City, and County--all free-form. The Place Name contained the name of the school, which is fine. The Country was US instead of the United States that I had selected from the drop-down menu (in the first Location box on my profile data entry screen). State/Province contained the contents of the second box, and City contained the contents of the third box. County, of course, was empty.

I entered the name of the county, and saved the event. I returned to the timeline, and the county was there, but the country was still missing. I editted the event again and changed the US to USA--USA is a standard abbreviation that I have been trying to use throughout Geni for all locations, e.g. births, marriages, deaths, burials, etc. I saved the event and returned to the timeline, and everything was there: City, County, State, USA.

Unfortunately, when I returned to my profile in the Schools section, the Country was missing from the school of the event that I had just editted.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem?

Joe Brous Buttrill

11/20/2010 at 6:15 AM

When I know the name of the cemetery in which a relative is buried, I enter that information into Geni. I enter it on the profile in the Place Name of Burial box, and I enter it on the burial event in the Location Place Name box. When the profile is displayed, the cemetery appears as part of the Place of Burial; however, when the burial event is displayed, the cemetery name is omitted.

(See Rufus Avery Parks for an example.)

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there a known solution or a workarond?

Understanding The Timeline & Events

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