ATTENTION Curators, please assist

Please undo the last merge:
Obadiah Gilbert, Jr.

Justin Durand,
It's been undone

Thanks, Ann!

Naatje Levie Viool
Done

http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000004395930891?return=merge_...

http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000002004276378?return=merge_...

http://www.geni.com/merge/compare/365436033990002656?return=merge_c...

Private User,
The 3 merges hane been completed.

Hi,
I'm just looking for thoughts about handling adoptions on the tree. I assume the issue has arisen on the past. My thought is that the tree reflects a blood line but yet at the same time, adopted parents must be recognized. Placing the information in "About" does not seem sufficient. Is there anything else available? Elise Röthlisberger was adopted by the Heppler family when she was 3 and very soon after her immigration with her mother.
Secondly, what about children whose blood parents are unknown. In that case I attached them to the adopting parents but made a note in the ABOUT.
Thanks for your thought... Jim

It is my most sincere belief that any and all adopted children should be placed with both their adoptive parents and their blood parents (if known).

Plenty of profiles appear in two (or more) places in the Big Tree, and in my opinion it should pose no real problem to give users the opportunity to see the true bloodline of an adopted child if it is available, while at the same time keeping the connection to their adoptive parents intact.

I would imagine that any adopted child would be deeply appalled to find that they have been "cut" from either one of their family trees.

Also see

http://www.geni.com/discussions/89115?by_or_about=44865

and

http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Adoption

Thanks Private User, I assumed this was not a new issue. Hope you are well! Jim

Here is what I did for my wife's niece.
Private User
Make a duplicate of the person, Give it the adoptive parents and then merge the duplicate and lock it if you can. Don't merge the parents!
If you have the birth parents names you will be keeping the bloodline {genes = genealogy).

Thank Eldon Lester Clark. I read in the discussions from Benjamin's note that providing a solution is on the programmers "to do" list. In the meantime, the idea is to preserve the genetic heritage as well as the family connection.

Jim Wile That "to do" item is several years old. I guess it is at the bottom of the list.

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000001937343158?return=merge...

Private User,
1-The merge for Diya Private User , and others are completed.
2- I reported 9 abandoned tree and a new manager was appointed by Geni.
3- There are a few data conflicts but I don't think I'm capable of choosing the right information.

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000007597944941?return=merge...

Is there any what I can get co-manager of this profile? @William Henry Mansfield

It sis still on pending mode since shortly after I/joined Started family tree November 26, 2009

Any contact via private messages, asking to my family group, for collaboration, or asking for co-manager of profiles from @Christopher Paul Hardisty has been fruitless

I have repeatedly reported this as an abandoned tree he has many profiles that he entered on my Hardesty (Hardisty) / Edington / Ashcraft profiles and allied lines.

Any help would be appreciated - I gaining co-manager of profiles I have long ago requested co-managership of from @Christopher Paul Hardisty has been fruitless

okay found a duplicate I think that solves this - for @William Henry Mansfield

but there could be tothers I requested co-manager from him over the years and no response from him - not sure till I run into them again

Asa Stearns - please remove relationship to his father Daniel Stearns and his second wife, Lois Rice.

Sorry, I was able to do.

@rvk I can see both parents and siblings in the profile view and tree view

me too, now

Will someone please unmerge http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000030988855805 that was done a couple of hours ago? Their children are from different time periods. Thanks for your help. Jim

Jim Wile, unmerge started. You will have to check the result in a few minutes.

Thanks Private User, I am working on the resulting profiles now.
Jim

Wow, the unmerge ability is a great addition to your tools!!

Please reverse merge done in error.
John Hiram Reuben Kirk

Un-merge is ingenious!