How can I discontinue a colabroation. I am new to geni and I did not understand the extent of what colaboration meant. I have very llimited goals for my tree and I am now spending most of my time trying to correct mismatches and dealing with an additional 100 or so people added to my tree..
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Jeff, Geni Curator If you're talking about family members invited into the tree, there is no way to reverse that. If you're talking about Geni members outside your family group that have common ancestors and you have a collaboration relationship with them, then you can stop collaborating via this page: http://www.geni.com/list/collaborators/ However, collaboration is a two way street, so you would also be removing yourself from the ability to fix things in the tree and access to public ancestor profiles managed by your collaborators. Removing collaboration also will not remove the connections or those profiles from the tree or stop the proper merging of duplicates in that tree. Geni is a collaborative world tree - that's the purpose of the software, one profile for one person connected to a single world tree. If you want an isolated tree, then MyHeritage (the parent company of Geni) would be a better fit for your goals as it's built for isolated trees. You could export your GEDCOM (http://www.geni.com/gedcom) and import it there (http://www.myheritage.com/). However, we would love for you to stay. If there are mistakes in the tree, then we need to fix them and curators would be happy to assist if you're having problems or need help. If you just don't wish to see the activity of your collaborators, then you can filter them (uncheck collaborators from the newsfeed menu) on your home page and you can modify your notifications. http://www.geni.com/account_settings/notifications
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Jeff, Geni Curator Another thought, you can also change the amount of profiles visible in your tree, so perhaps you only see your limited goals and not the additional 100 or so. You can do this toward the bottom of the tree view under preferences, display. You could check "Direct Ancestors Only" or specify the number of Ancestors or Descendants visible to limit what you're seeing.
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M G Following because this has absolutely mangled my tree!
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Jeff, Geni Curator M G, if you would like to send me a private message, I can try to help you fix your tree. I searched for you, but unfortunately, there are just too many "M G" profiles to sift through.
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Michael Tuchman Sadly, one person with whom I was collaborating left us this year, but now I cannot update this person's information because I think I may have been their only collaborator. Any advice?
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Jeff, Geni Curator Michael, You can report the person as being deceased, which should reassign their profiles to the closest active family member, or report the tree as abandoned, which will probably do the same.
http://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229706547-How-do-I-report-a-profile-as-Deceased-
http://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229706587-What-is-an-abandoned-tree-
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Stephanie Kartofels Goetz I have the same issue. I made a huge mistake by adding my mother in law and she is mangling my tree - she's added parents as siblings, uncapitalized names, etc. and I can't seem to fix all of the issues - only some. Is my only option to start a new tree? This is ridiculous. Please help. I need to revoke her access immediately.
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