gedcom Files

Hello,

Gedcom imports have been temporarily suspended. They should resume within a month or three. They were causing MAJOR problems, with people uploading the same COMMON ancestors over and over again.

In the mean time, search Geni for the names of some of your ancestors, you'll be surprised how many of them are already here. So instead of adding them all over again just add the much smaller parts of the tree that are closest to you, and ask to connect up with these shared ancestor. Geni IS, after all, a shared tree.

Shmuel-Aharon Kam,
Geni Curator

LOL Beth,
give it a rest.
Curators have enough work as it is. So if someone took the effort to Curate your profiles, then
1) these are "relatives" at least 6 generations removed from you.
2) the Curator has an obvious interest and knowledge of this part of the tree, or
3) was asked to assist by "cousins" of yours.

The number of outstanding merges has gone down from about 2 million to about 10% of that, and still falling. The vast majority of those remaining, involve at least one private profile. So so much for "too much manual work".

Beth, none of your great-grandfathers are master profiles:
Earl E. Boxwell
Arthur C. Pomeroy
Andrea Bavetta
Michael R. Burt

Any word on when GEDCOM importing will be available again?

You're wrong. Michael R. Burt is public. That has nothing to do with anything, though, because none of them are master profiles, so they can't be curated. If you're referring to him, the manager has "Curator" in her name because she is a curator, but the profile is not a master, so no one is the curator of it.

Beth,
don't you just love twisting around the facts to suite yourself? You said the profile is curated when in fact it's not. They aren't curating your profile but a duplicate of it. Regular Geni users are adding duplicates all of the time. Curators are also Geni users. I strongly doubt anybody added these profiles to spite you. I bet that within 30 minutes, I could easily find a LOT of information to fill out that profile. I won't because I have no interest, but many people do.

If you look a bit further "upline" of Charles, you will find HIS 3rd great-grandfather, William Bean, Trans-Appalachian Pioneer who IS a Master Profile. This profile has TWELVE managers, i.e. of interest to quite a few people, who all made the effort to add him, and 2,864 of his descendants.

Did you actually ASK anyone to make that profile of your great-grandfather private?

As to Erin posting links to your private profiles, that too is something any Geni user could do. The profiles themselves, and the details therein DO remain private, to the extent defined by the profile manager. Anybody could have easily found those profiles using the Geni search feature. It took me about 5-10 minutes. It's not like any of your near ancestors have very common names... There are all of 38 Bavetta on Geni and 1295 Beeman.

You tell em cousin...