Collaboration Pool

Ahyone on Facebook? I like the new map they have on your profile that tracks where you have lived . I wish that Geni had this - It would be like sticking pins in a map to see where ancestors came into this country and you could so easily see the migration path.

Sten - I have tested out Geni's "how are you related to ?" feature and it amazingly finds links to every single person I can imagine to try out. I think I'm up to 8 presidents, several movie stars. It's a riot! It's either a joke or it is now obvious that when our ancestors came to the US - it has created a situation which is the equivalent to sending 1000 families to colonize the moon. Everyone will become related to one another in some way eventually, if they already are not.

How can I revert back to English? My Geni has changed into spanish.
Thanks!
Janice

The language settings are at the very bottom of every Geni page. If you can't find English in gray type, press and hold the blue type (next to help) to select your language.

Janice, had the same problem the other day after I had changed into Japanese working on my (Japanese) wife's tree together with her. I miraculously got back to English, don't even know how...

The bottom gray menu line on every Geni page with language selections are never translated.

Take a better look the next time you get stuck on a language you are not able to read ;-)

Well, I was on the account of my wife, and for some strange reason the whole bottom menu line was gone... Not fully set up for Geni access as yet, Flash plug-in is missing. Otherwise I for sure know where to look, also my Japanese is good enough to read "Eigo" or Nihongo in Japanese kanji, so that wasn't the problem :)

Paulo Pinto

Alex, believe me, your pedigree will merge faster than you'd believe! We're cousins several times over when we really get into it. Take a penny. Double it every day for a month. See how many names that is? That's also how fast you'll need the collaboration of every genealogist you can. With the net helping us, it's still a huge job. Fact is, we find ourselves playing in each others' sandbox ever faster, because of the rapid research we enjoy today. My two cents. :)

Private User
I started doing family history research about 15 years ago (when I was 13). I think it was the data side of things that has caught me (and yes, now I have a job working with data!). Even now, I find it amazing just how interconnected we all are. I have done extensive South Australian research which I am slowly making my way through putting on here. Am happy to help where I can.

It still blows me away why you want permission to access everyones family Tree. If your a known relative and our trees cross over for each other, I can see this. I have alot of merge issues as well. But if my tree get merged with most of them, my Family Tree is ruin because they are no way related to ME! We just happen to share a last name, but still not a relative!

Dennis Blake

I agree Dennis.

Who wants to access everyones family tree?! What a terrible horrible disgrace! We are doomed, I say. This is the ultimate outcome of genealogical research combined with crowdsourcing and friendly people being interested in our well guarded and online secrets, my friends. And all of this, our very own dearest Geni site even. Imagine the nerve! I demand all sorts of stuff to be stopped immediately by premium customer service (I am Pro)!! Severe punishments must be dished out, responsibles brought to justice! Merge them into Charlemagne, or something. This is just too much for my tender nerves, I'll logoffski my puter before I blow away too…

:P

Olav Linno Poëll ;-) ;-)

One of my main reasons to being a collaborator (and I think for many of us) maybe is not to necessarily merge trees, but, for me anyways, to possibly to discover with other people if we have any mutual lines, ant if we do, to see if we can exchange information with that collaborator to get the missing lines of relatives/ancestors for our trees.
That is what it means for me to be a collaborator. Not always to go into someones tree with the intent of merging it with mine!!!!!!

I recently had that experience, Roy. It took a year or more but eventually we built bridges, profile by profile, to the "common ancestors.". It was pretty satisfying to feel - "I thought there might be a connection!". And surprising that it was more roundabout. Could never have done a straight merger.

I welcome the help. There are some areas of the tree I am sure of and some that I need help with. My tree goes into the American revolution, Norway , Germany, England etc. Since I don't speak some of these languages it is always good to talk to somebody who does when I don't understand something. Sometimes I just look down my tree to see if the dates make sense. Even I know that a child can't be born before its parents , but sometimes mistakes are made because of similar or same names in the generations.

The thing is when people request to collaborate, often they don't indicate any real connection. they like to day how many thousands of profiles they have but they almost never indite any direct connection and I mean direct not 100 times removed ( I know that an exaggeration) but you know what I mean. I might be willing to collaborate if there was an actual connection. Like a real cousin. A real blood related cousin or aunt or uncle ete.

@marianne lyons dagher

@Sally Thomas

@lisataisey...sign me up!

@Jon Engen I am a great great grandson of Oline and Edward Engen

@peterolavi....The idea is better than good, please sign me up

I thought the whole "type your name here" concept had been replaced by people joining the collaboration project?

Not even I are a member of that project ;-)

I'm pretty sure i did not hallucinate reading this?

"Reasons to build a list here:

1.Easier to manage who is in and out and no hassles with "@yourname"."

You're right Alex. Now I'm very confused.

The change last year means that Pro's can change and/or merge any Public profiles without having to bother to collaborate.

The only remaining use for collaborating is for those few fields that are not inserted into revisions. Presumably this will be corrected in the near future.

Why would someone want to be a collaborator with me? They can (and do) change my public profiles anyway. Am I missing something? What does collaboration do now?

Ken - collaboration is now of most use to non-Pro - because as you say Pro can edit anyway. Non-Pro need collaboration to edit or to add on to public profiles outside their family group that they don't manage.

I think David is correct and that is why i continue to accept collaboration requests even tho as you say there doesn't seem to be much use when a Pro member.

having said that it would be nice to see a brief comment as to why a particular person wants to collaborate with me, not as a filter, just for curiosity.