I have paid for both Geni Pro and Myheritage data. Sometimes Geni doesn't find an auto match for information so I search myheritage for it. When i find something manually on myheritage that correlates to a person in my family tree that is on geni, i click "save record" assuming that it'll link to geni but it doesnt. I basically get a message that says i need to start a family tree. The only time I can add anything from myheritage to geni is if geni automatically finds it. Why can I not do this manually?
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Ari Waisman I have the same problem, what is the solution?
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Ethan David Whitted I am looking for a solution to this as well.
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Job Waterreus You can use SmartCopy (https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783) to copy data from a MH tree to Geni.
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Ethan David Whitted Thanks for the helpful link @Job Waterreus!
Unfortaunately, while SmartMatch seems to help copy over information to/from Geni, it does not seem to provide an option to attach a document found on MyHeritage Data (such as a Census document) as a Source.
See, for example, this Geni profile for Eugene Lyman Rowe, and this Census document on MyHeritage, which Geni's SmartMatch won't find as a matching document. Sadly, the SmartCopy extension does not appear to allow us to add the document as a Source on Geni either, which is what I am trying to do :(
Thanks for the tip regarding raw data, though!
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Job Waterreus Sorry, misunderstood your question. You can use SmartCopy to copy data from a MH tree to Geni, not from a MH data record.
You can add an url as a document to Geni, so you could use that method to add a data record to Geni and then use that as a source (but you would have to do the fields by hand)
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Ethan David Whitted No problem, thanks! Looks like the yucky URL is the closest we have for now. Hopefully if Geni ever speeds up its development cycle, we can see this "manually directing SmartMatch" as a feature added later!
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