When the Geni staff looks into it, Dale, they will see that you mashed together four families that had no relationship, and that you created a horrendous mess that will be a long time in the undoing.
You can claim ignorance, but that just proves your incompetence.
There was one from Rhode Island, one from New York State (yours), one from Maryland, and one from IIRC Georgia. Anyone who did a little sneak-peeking on the trees - which any *responsible* person *would* have done - would clearly have seen that they did *not* belong together and would *not* have mash-merged them.
You didn't look. You just grabbed and mashed. (That's been your Modus Operandi *all along*, as a matter of fact.)
Somebody saw the mash-up and complained that one of *her* ancestors had been squashed in where she didn't belong - hers was the Rhode Island family, IIRC, and that got Erica involved. She was able to Unmerge the merges *YOU* made, and then made suggestions as to who should take which branch. I got Maryland because of my Anne Arundel connections....
Well, almost the first thing I found out was that *this* family should *never* have been merged with yours, *or* with the Rhode Island family (I'm not sure about the Georgia family because insufficient information). They were black.
There aren't a lot of black family trees on Geni (or elsewhere either), so I feel obligated to do what I can to get them sorted. I expect to learn a lot about black Anne Arundel, MD in the process.
And I'm *not* going to make anything up and connect them to Frederick Douglass or Thurgood Marshall or Benjamin Banneker if they *don't* naturally connect.