My family tree which went from Edwin Courtenay back through many generations and included most of the royal families of Europe.....has disappeared...hundreds of people have just gone...it has taken years of effort by myself and other contributors to build this tree which went back to around 150AD...can you pls advise if this is a total loss or they can be recovered from archive. I and my family are very upset about this.
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Jeff, Geni Curator I'm sure the profiles are still present in Geni. What appears to have happened was that Edwin was disconnected from that line because the information about his parents was not valid. This is often done when we find mythical connections, misinformation, new DNA evidence, etc that update the tree with the latest knowledge about a line. In this case, the evidence was clear, someone born in circa 1793 is not the child of someone from the 1300s. It looks like several Geni Curators have made changes to that profile in correcting data and I'll contact them regarding your concern. But this looks like a legitimate disconnect based on false connections, such as on May 2014, when you set Edwin's father as William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury (b 1342). If he is your ancestor, then please properly make the connection to him through a valid ancestral line.
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Kerry Noel Aldridge Jeff,
My records were perfectly valid, it is my record and nobody should have the right to change anything without seeking my pernission...My connection from Edwin Courtenay was to "Various Courtenay" due to loss of Irish records from the 1922 riots...as for William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury, I did not add that record...did not even know it was there. I would appreciate restoration of my records as they were, and I will seek out anomolies such as William and correct. The actions of Geni and it's people was one of pure arrogance and should not be tolerated by any Geni user
Kerry Aldridge
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Jeff, Geni Curator Kerry, accuracy in the world tree is important to Geni. It's a shared tree visible to the public and bad data reflects poorly on the site and discourages genealogists from contributing. I don't see how it's pure arrogance to disconnect profiles born around 1800 from someone born in 1300 in a shared tree. I believe the short-cut profile "Various Courtenay" was connected to Hugh Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon and Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon as their child. Various Courtenay was disposed of by merging it into a sibling, William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury. If you don't know the real parents of Edwin that provide the ancestral connection to these profiles, then you don't have it - parents unknown. It happens to all of us - in the about we can describe the ultimate connection to those ancestors, but until yDNA testing reveals new insights or new records are found, the tree stops. The two curators that have a history with your profile have been notified of your report and maybe they have more information that can help make those connections, but recreating an invalid genealogy to span the time period is not an acceptable solution.
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