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Incorrect Merge

Richard Mills

March 09, 2017 07:09

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 I viewed a proposed "Pending Merge" and found it obvious that it was NOT a match. I exited the page WITHOUT MERGING, but found the profiles merged anyway. I have managed to add my original relative, and spouse, to the Tree, but cannot re-assign the wrongly merged profile to her correct parents....

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  Magnus Eriksson March 13, 2017 02:01

  Write a message in the discussion thread of the profile. Then a curator can revert the merge. At least if you have not manually tried to fix the problem yourself. 

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  Jeff, Geni Curator March 13, 2017 02:13

  Richard, what's the profile - I can unmerge it.

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  Helena Margaret (Kelly) Stocker March 15, 2017 01:39

  Like the original poster a curator has merged my tree, but in my case without sending any notification of his intention to do so.

  I had found a tentative link suggesting there was a relative I had no knowledge of, I was intending on doing the research to see if this was a long lost branch of the family and added the information temporarily lest I forget it whilst undergoing chemotherapy. The profiles were all private with only a few relatives viewing.

  I logged in today to find scores of people merged, profiles made public and managers added to the tree. I have also been made a manager of people not related to me.

  I do not know where to start to unravel the mess caused by this "Curator"

  A curator should not be allowed to merge without confirming. How do I go about getting this un-Curated?

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  Jeff, Geni Curator March 22, 2017 00:22

  Not sure how much I can help.  Curators do have this ability and are tasked with merging duplicates in the world tree.  Geni is a shared collaborative tree.  But if you feel the merge was inaccurate (that they were not in fact the same person or duplicate branches) then I'd first suggest contacting the Curator to address the inaccuracies.  Curators do sometimes make mistakes and if it's a matter of a mismerge, then we can address that by unmerging.  If it's something you want to research further, then make a note of it - if it's found to be inaccurate, we can address it at that time.  That way corrections propagate to everyone.  What we don't want is you having a correct branch leaving someone else with an invalid branch and the branches are duplicates - one branch for one family - fix it together.