Home. Geni - Genealogy - Free Family Tree. Geni Wiki. Resolving Merge Issues - Wiki. Most people who have added profiles to their tree on Geni, will sooner or later "discover" in the top-right corner of their Home page on Geni, that they have a link to Merge Issues or looking at the tool-bar under Relatives notice the Merge-Center. This page will try and explain what these issues are and how to resolve them. Don't let the long explanations put you off. It's really NOT that complex. The length here is mostly due to trying to make this as clear as possible. To understand "Merge Issues" we must first understand where they come from: Duplicate profiles - are profiles for a single person that appear multiple times on Geni, in separate trees or even in the same tree.
Merge Issues are caused when you (or someone else) initiated a merge between such profiles, but didn't (or couldn't) complete it. Merge Center - This is the primary list of merge-issues that you have. Under the title of the Merge Center screen you will see a simple the following table of four tabs: Explanation: Naming Conventions - Wiki. For the Big Tree (World Family Tree) it is important that we try to unite on one good naming practice, trying to use the best genealogical standard. There is some additional info on this subject in this project: Coalition for the Standardization of Geni Naming Conventions For our modern profiles we of course use what we’re used to: close relatives, living people, claimed profiles, all will write their names correctly according to how it is done legally in the country in question.
But for the parts of the tree many people share, usually starting 1700 and back, we need to cooperate to get it as good as possible, by both genealogical and historical standards. We must remember when working in the Big Tree with historical profiles that naming practices were often very different from what we are used to in our own culture, in our own language, or in our own time. All varieties of a name should always be added in Nicknames.
Examples: ✔ Jason McDonald ✘ jason mcdonald ✘ Jason MCDONALD Also: Example: Curators -- and how YOU can help - Wiki. About Curators The goal of Geni has always been to create a shared family tree, so our users around the world can meet new cousins and discover how they relate to historical figures as well as well-known contemporary public figures. Geni has recently (in September, 2010) designated a group of experienced users as Curators to help achieve this goal. Similar to Wikipedia administrators, Curators are users who are active and well regarded by the community. Curators are volunteers and are not Geni staff. They are users like you, and most have been actively working on the collaborative project of creating a shared historical family tree for over two years. Curators have the following privileges: Only users with a good track record over an extended period of time have been granted these privileges and, of course, they can be revoked at any time if necessary.
How to become a Curator As mentioned above, being a Curator is dependent on a "having a good track record". Where Candidates Come From.
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