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A technical question dealing with tree matchning

Kalle Lilja

December 20, 2021 22:46

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I am not sure if this question has been up before or nor but I am sort of feeling more and more like Don Quijote tilting windmills and well I would like to get rid of these feelings before they get totally stuck. :) 

So aparently I did the foolish mistake of uploading my a already created fmaily tree. This has caused some issues with tree matching. 

With some great help from others some of these conflicts have been solved. ( Thank you so much to all of you by the way! ) There are however still a couple that hasn't and well for some reason when I truy to fix these conflicts myself Geni sends me to another place where they want my money. 

I do get the a page needs funds to be maintained and developed but isn't it a little bit extreme expecting people to pay to get rid of potential conflicts? ( I mean shouldn't conflicts be something that Geni should want to see resolved as qiuckly as possible? ) 

Maybe I am doing something wrong here so maybe someone would be kind enough to shed some light on how I can merge/get rid of potential conflicts? 

Maybe I should also add here that I have tried to do this both from the "family-tree-page" as well as from the "conflict-page" and the end result is the same. ( For transparency reasons I have tried to use smartmatches and recors matches and those two features work for me, or at least I think they work since I am not exactly sure what they should do for me. ) 

Any kind of hints, suggestions, ideas or even better answers would be greatly apprecitad!

Thank  you

Kalle

 

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  Job Waterreus December 21, 2021 13:44

  I can tell you to Geni looks for profiles that overlap in the period that the person is alive and that have the same last name and a least one of the given names.

  If you look at the Geni search page you will see that Geni indicates for profiles if a similar profile exists, so you can limit the number of possible matches that way.

  With the Geni search screen you can access your own profile and public profiles which have a managers with who you collaborate without hitting the pay wall, so it helps to collaborate with other users that are active in the same part of the tree.

  Public profile can also be found by using Google and adding site:geni.com to your search, so it is possible to access those without hitting the pay wall.

  Pro users can see the matches, so there may be Pro users who are willing to help you.

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  Kalle Lilja December 21, 2021 16:37

  Thanks for responding. :)

  Thanks for the suggestion on searching for profiles using google. ( I might just try that eventually. :) 

  Now I at least know that I have to be a paying member to merge dupilcate profiles. ( Very smart Geni, not allowing me to do that when a big part of your concept is to make sure that there are no duplicates.... ) 

  /Kalle

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  Job Waterreus December 21, 2021 16:52

  You do not have to be a paying member to do merges, but it is a bit hard to find the matching profile when you are a basic user.

  Edited by Job Waterreus December 21, 2021 16:53
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  Kalle Lilja December 21, 2021 17:27

  Hmmm 

  When I uploaded my gedcom-file with a family tree Geni found the "conflicts for me" so to speak. ( Together with a lot of smart martches and records matches and what not. :) )  

  In other words I can already see the conflicts. What I can't do is correct them. :) 

   

  /Kalle

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  Job Waterreus December 21, 2021 17:49

  You do not have to do everything yourself, other user may do merges for you.

  But please check your GEDCOM page to see the matches and decide if you want to import a branch where there are already profiles on Geni (you can cancel the import of such a branch when it would not add any new information to Geni)

  Depending on the size of your GEDCOM it can take many months before the import is completed (it will halt the import on branches where it finds duplicates so you can decide what to do with such a branch, but the import will continue if the concerning profile is merged (that could be done by another user, so please check regularly)

  Your GEDCOM page is located here: https://www.geni.com/gedcom