There are occasions when you need to enter a profile for a person not related to you. some examples are my project regarding the civilian POWs from Wake Island which should have about 1600 profiles. To enter them I must make them a sibling, then edit the profile to remove the connection. This is cumbersome and time consuming. Another ongoing subject is the adding of slaves where only a first name is known. The process for adding them is the same. I am sure there are many other examples including a person who you would like to have join Geni.
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Indexer Lady Good to know. I'm using Geni to research the ancestry and descendants of the Irish comedian and author, William Grattan Tyrone Power (1795-1841), for a friend. His mother was Mary Maxwell, of Kilmacthomas, co. Waterford, Ireland. His wife was Anne Gilbert, of the same place. The couple reared their family in Tonbridge. -
Yao Liu It's a perennial "request" for those of us who are building projects of unrelated people, which most projects are of this sort. I recently had an idea that would go a bit further than what Eldon is suggesting. Devise a quick way to enter multiple (unrelated) profiles from a project, just the names, and in the project they would appear red instead of blue, just like in wikipedia. Unless one clicks in and adds more information (dates, immediate family) they are not officially recognized as profiles, but should be searchable. If someone later builds up a tree that has that name, we could flag a match (without dates or family, it could be a crude match; so hopefully the project is specific enough to be a useful clue). It also is a quick way to see which names already exist on Geni, without entering the name in search box one by one.
If this is realized, we could add hundreds and thousands of names in a matter of minutes, if the names already exist in some (digital) format. Think of a yearbook, a ship log, war veterans, etc. Perhaps the easiest is to take a long string of names, separated by commas. Don't bother to parse them into first middle and last names, just match with the full name. It's already an engineering challenge.
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Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) - on walkabout🇦🇺 Hi, I have tried to do what is suggested above - add a person as a sibling and them remove the relationship but I cannot remove it as it comes up with a message along the lines that "This was split the tree". My reason for doing it, is that I have a family member that we know is related but we don't exactly know how so want to track any info about him and start a discussion with others also researching the family. I have not set up a Project. I have GENI, not GENI PRO.
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