I have added my 2nd cousin to my tree. She has a record in another tree which I wish to merge with mine as it contains a lot of my blood relatives that I didn't know about. I have requested, twice, for the manager of my 2nd cousin's record to merge but am being ignored. Can anything be done?
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Jeff, Geni Curator So long as the profile you are trying to merge is not a "claimed" profile, you could try to contact someone else in that family group. Contact them and ask them to merge the profile, or ask to be added to their family group. It does not have to be the manager of that profile, but it does need to be someone in the other tree's family group. Once either one of those two things happen, you should be able to merge all the other profiles.
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Lois Lubin I thought when Merge Center came in, they eliminated being able to privately request merging. Yes? No? Yes, but they put it back? Or??
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Jeff, Geni Curator The merge center doesn't direct the merge to any one person, but you can still send them a personal message asking them or one of the relatives to merge it.
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Lois Lubin @Jeff - Re: "The merge center doesn't direct the merge to any one person, but you can still send them a personal message asking them or one of the relatives to merge it." - you can still send THEM a personal message -- them being the Merge Center or ??
On the one hand, I want to understand what you are saying - but, on the other hand, perhaps I don't want anyone to, because -- It sounds very much to me like you are trying to encourage folks to keep going till they find naive family member who agrees to something the profile owner definitely does not want, and that this family member quite likely does not understand at all.
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Jeff, Geni Curator Lois, Them being anyone on that side of the merge (in that tree with permissions to accept the merge - could be a collaborator, could be someone in the family group). Something being in the merge center does not notify the individual that there is a merge waiting. They actually have to log in to see they have merges waiting, and even then, they may or may not take the time to do it. Sending them a polite message asking them to do a specific merge or to collaborate is a lot more likely to get things accomplished. But some users don't respond because their just inactive (I have a second cousin that I've been trying to merge with for over a year - he hasn't logged in for 2yrs). They may get so many Geni emails that they're consider it spam, just ignored it, or changed e-mails. If they are active and don't want to merge, they'll usually write back saying so. In that case, you can move on. If the user does not respond or is inactive, then perhaps a family member would be able to accomplish the task. It's not "his" tree, it's their tree and as you move up it becomes our tree.
If your interested in a solo tree, you're going to find it difficult. Geni is not design for that and you'll be disappointed if this is what you're looking for - there are other sites that better perform this service.
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Lois Lubin @Jeff Gentes - one of the things I truly disliked when they switched to Merge Center from folks sending me requests to merge was losing the ability to respond. They send it "no-reply', so I cannot explain why I do not want to merge - for example, due to what I see on that tree/tree section. When folks sent me requests to merge, I believe I always responded, usually asking (if they had not already told me) how they were connected. I have not been big on merges, but have accepted a few, and at least folks were told where I stood. At times, there were differences in how we did things that we worked out and then I accepted the merge.
So someone sending me a geni-message re: a merge geni has suggested I make is definitely not the vile thing I was reading into your suggestion. Thanks for the clarification.
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Harry Gruen Merging is not always desired. Let's say that one profile has wrong information or has too much information even though it's accurate and the one with missing information wants it like that.
Also in a merge request, there are opposing arrows. Could be that the other manager will not agree and the original one wants the merge. If it's a claimed profile, you're out of luck.
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