I received an email (from a no-reply address) from GENI about my direct ancestor Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang, with a long, unnecessary and VERY convoluted explanation about how he is supposedly related to me. He is my direct ancestor on my Norwegian Father's father's side, the Ledang Family. I don't understand why this weird or at least completely unnecessary and roundabout in-law connection was sent to me. Why is GENI using my Father's mother's family to find a connection to my Father's father's family when there already is a direct blood connection from me to my Father Arnold Thoralf Michaelson to his father Thomas Edvin Michelson (born Ledang) to his father Mikael Ingebrigtsen Ledang to his father Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang? That is so much simpler! Why go from my Father's mother all through her parents and other relatives for generations to get to Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang? Is that supposed to impress me? How do I get this debugged, corrected, straightened out, etc.? Thanks.
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Geni Support Team Hi Paulette. Geni calculates the closest blood and in-law path to you/focus person, if it exists in the tree. If you take a look at your tree, you'll see that you are missing the direct connection to Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang and that is why you are only receiving the in-law path.Here is your great grandfather Mikael Ingebrigten Leadang in the tree https://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000121734432821 . You'll see that he is not connected to his father Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang. In order to see the blood path, you will need to connect Mikael to his father. Unfortunately, it looks like you duplicated your branch from Ingebrigt's profile yesterday. This adds extra work since you now have to merge all the duplicate profiles together.Please review and confirm the merge here: https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000178724146883?return=duplicates__6000000178724146883_6000000121734432821__1&to=6000000121734432821Once you have confirmed the merge, you may continue to merge the other duplicate profiles together. Once all the duplicates have been resolved, you should see your direct path to Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang. -
Paulette M. Switzer-Tatum I'm sorry, I don't think I understand your answer, but many thanks for trying to help. In my tree, I do have Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang (born Mork). At my end, these people are connected. Where is it that they are not connected properly? My daughter was looking at the family tree on MyHeritage, and said my Grandmother Anna Lovise Kristiansdatter-Osen Sitter1877-1960 was not connected to her husband Thomas Edvin Michelson (born Ledang) 1872-1946, and it did take me a while to figure out where she was looking, but now they are connected. I mostly use MyHeritage, which is connected to GENI. I pay annually for MyHeritage, but I'm not a member of GENI. Is that the problem?
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Paulette M. Switzer-Tatum And I'm sorry, I do not know how to merge. I'm afraid I'll lose information and have to redo it all, as I've experienced with several other sites; they merge information that ends up leaving out important details that I've put in.
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Geni Support Team The missing connection was between Mikael Ingebrigten Leadang and his father. It looks like you were able to complete the merge for Mikael Ingebrigten Leadang, which now connects father and son. I have finished merging the remaining duplicates for you. Now that all the duplicates are merged, you will see that Ingebrigt Monsen Ledang appears as your second great grandfather: https://geni.com/Tv3M3
Merging preserves the data on the profiles. If there is conflicting data, then you can resolve it. The recent merges that I completed resulted in a few data conflicts for you to review here https://www.geni.com/list/data_conflicts . Simply select the correct value in the table and save.
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Paulette M. Switzer-Tatum Are you saying I actually figured it out?! Wow, I'm surprised, was just grasping at straws and trying to get a grip on your instructions! Thank you so very much for your help! I realize that I have done merges, but they were already set up like the one you set up this last time, and all I had to do was verify the correct information if I had it. I need to learn to set up merges. The places where I have duplicated profiles where I try to match up new information, I guess I thought would merge themselves, except where I was fumbling around trying to get the same information in both my Michaelson (father's side) and Cupp (mother's side) trees. Didn't always work. Thanks again.
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Geni Support Team Glad we could help! There are multiple ways to merge profiles. You can see a list of the different methods in this FAQ: https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229705547-How-do-I-merge-duplicate-profiles-
You can click on each method for step-by-step instructions.
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