I saw today that someone has been merging profiles that I created in my family tree. They did not contact me about it. As far as I can tell this person is not even related to my family. I saw that today that he is just sailing along doing it with many many other profiles. The one that concerns me the most is for my grgrgrgreatgrandfather Jacob Efird Sr. A book was written about the Efird Family in the 1960s and the wrong people were named as the Original Immigrant Ancestors. I found the right people and they were in Jacob's profile as his parents. Whoever merged his profile with whoever else has the right parents, but also the wrong parents. TWO sets of parents, one right and one wrong. I tried to fix it but I have found out that only a curator can fix these things.
Can someone PLEASE fix it for me? I have worked on this for over six years. It is very very disheartening to see someone just go in and destroy it like that.
Carolyn Pinkerton
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Jimmi Mysander I have the same problem. My profile is a mess, with a lot of duplicates and new profiles I dont want on my family tree.
It should be possible to unmerge profiles, for the user themsselfes.
I hope that the curator can and will fix yours and mine profiles.
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Natasha Benenson My geni site was intruded upon by someone who thought a great grandmother of mine belonged to their family. this was not correct. Ever since then it has been merged with their family. I wish to withdraw all my entries from the site. How do I do this?
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Michele Perkins Same here. I'd like to withdraw all my entries due to someone posting incorrect information! I wouldn't mind restarting it correctly, but I'm truly irritated that someone can override MY immediate family tree thinking they know better!!!!
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Carol Lee Buffenbarger (Bostrom) The same happened to me. Years of research and even translating foreign documents to find the correct names and dates was gone in 1 merge! Others had the wrong spelling which made research hard. Once I had the correct info, then I added them. They even changed my own parents and grandparents with wrong data, dates, and mispellings. They now have duplicates as well. I would try to fix, but they are now listed as co-manager of my work. I am afraid they would just change my work again. I am starting over trying a whole new tree. There should be a way to have to give permission to merge. Allowing people to copy records would be acceptable. Over a few months I went from about 50 well documented people to 10,000 that may not even be related to me. I want to be able to limit how many cousins and families are on it. I don't want to have to look at the whole world to find my little line. The option to see others is nice, but can't we link without merging? Now I have to research and retype every single person over again. I still have a lot of interesting life stories I found and information that I was willing to share that was not yet added. Now I just want to keep it private so it does not get deleted in a merge. Can we keep each profile private? Or have a way to keep them from being merged or changed?
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Jussi Turunen Same. Someone has changed my great grandparent details and now everything from there on is wrong. I tried to change it back but the wrong names are still there!! Hwo does one stop this without deleting the whole tree???
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Job Waterreus A curator can undo wrong merges.
Need help from a curator? Please post in the Geni discussion entitled ATTENTION Curators, please assist. Give a link to the problem profile(s) there.
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