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Private User

12/19/2023 at 8:27 PM

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000077105443451?return=match...

Please consider MPing these two Joseph Black profiles. It could be an easy mix-up.

Emily Kent Marget C

12/19/2023 at 9:45 PM

Private User - Mastered with notes about where they lived.

Private User

12/19/2023 at 10:15 PM

Isabelle Nalle is locked with incorrect data and connected to wrong parents.

Her birth surname was (.) and it was locked. In 2021, someone added parents. In 2022, a curator unlocked it and added the birth surname from the parents, but she as born long before the parents, so they can't be correct.

Erica Howton C

12/19/2023 at 10:42 PM

Private User - updated Isabelle Nalle

Annber Lynn Collins

12/21/2023 at 5:42 AM

MP needs cleaned up. Two Heinrich Furr but merged into one profile. I've been adding gravestone markers from my third Grandmother and working on extended family to this profile. The Findagrave is correct line attached to our line and the Geni Profile is not correct Parents and birth year but correct wife.

Heinrich ‘Henry’ Furr

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100140130/heinrich-furrer

Erica Howton C

12/21/2023 at 8:41 AM

Annber Lynn Collins - done. Also updated his uncle Heinrich Furr

Annber Lynn Collins

12/21/2023 at 12:00 PM

Many thanks Erica.

Private User

12/21/2023 at 9:07 PM

William Whittington has conflicting parents. One set is an English immigrant family.

Within that same tree is this merge that needs to be completed.

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000201221001836?return=match...

Here's a very well sourced tree to support the merge. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L4BX-CWR

Erica Howton C

12/22/2023 at 3:53 AM

Private User - done.

Private User

12/23/2023 at 3:25 PM

Sgt. Christian Peters

I found him with a bunch of CC issues. He wasn't married to Catherine Belcher - her child was born when his known wife was alive.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21424645/christian-peters

This is a match, but it brings in another wife and he wasn't married to her either.

https://www.geni.com/merge/compare/6000000002641524222?return=match...

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/23/2023 at 3:25 PM

Who are his parents?
Nasby Mills, I

I started a Project for all the men named Nasby Mills :)

Private User

12/23/2023 at 3:37 PM

Cynthia, I'd eliminate Rachel and Samuel, since both were too young (she being age nine).

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/23/2023 at 4:52 PM

Private User thank you!
Another case of needing fresh eyes on

Private User

12/23/2023 at 9:05 PM

I'm wondering if the [https://www.geni.com/projects/Acadians-of-New-France/1738 Acadian Project] could be re-titled, to something like Acadians of North America, instead of New France.

My reasoning is that the earliest settlers were like the US Colonists, they too were colonists, seeking a better life, and mostly away from the British.

They were not supported by France, so weren't really there in the name of France.

https://www.acadian.org/history/

Does this make sense?

Dr George Winchester Mark Jobson PRO

12/24/2023 at 12:57 PM

As you present it,that makes perfect sense to me.They were,if I am correct,first(in the Americas) settled in Nova Scotia,then many or most relocated to Louisiana.

Erica Howton C

12/24/2023 at 1:18 PM

It depends on whether we mean all Acadians or those of the province, and the project scope is “before 1755.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadians

Acadia was one of the five regions of New France. Acadia was located in what is now Eastern Canada's Maritime provinces, as well as parts of Quebec and present-day Maine to the Kennebec River. It was ethnically, geographically and administratively different from the other French colonies and the French colony of Canada. As a result, the Acadians developed a distinct history and culture.[4]

4. Histoire de l'Acadie,By Nicolas Landry, Nicole Lang. < GoogleBooks >

Erica Howton C

12/24/2023 at 1:26 PM

Looks like the province went back & forth between France & England:

https://www.acadian.org/history/

An isolated community. The Acadian community lived somewhat isolated from France as well as Canada. The Acadians were also largely ignored by the French and English. In the middle of the seventeenth century, Acadia came under English rule but at about this time the French began to take this region more seriously. In 1663, New France became a Royal Colony under Louis IV but the cost of waging military campaigns meant that Acadia was left neglected – perhaps because it was under English rule. The Acadians, however, maintained very good relations with the local natives and often used them as allies against competing tribes and colonists.

Ok, sold. How about calling it “Arcadia” so we keep the dating parameter?

Arcadians of North America would expand to present day. Perhaps a companion project?

Joel Scott Cognevich - your thoughts? Is the latter idea covered by existing projects

https://www.geni.com/projects/Le-Grand-D%C3%A9rangement/4489417

https://www.geni.com/projects/Acadian-and-French-Canadian-Emigrants-to-Louisiana/49099

Do we need a “Portal” to group together more clearly, or does a name change to “Arcadia” cover the chronology?

Joel Scott Cognevich C

12/24/2023 at 9:42 PM

There is allot to consider here. While not truly loyal to France, these early settlers were in fact French. Whether born in France or in the the region know as Acadia(Acadie), they were of French heritage. Many were forced to migrated to other parts of the world and continued to identify as Acadians. Still today, many people in Louisiana identify as Acadians and live in a region of Louisiana known as Acadiana. So simply labeling this project "Acadians" does not specifically identify the population targeted for this project, nor the region. I feel an identifier like New France is necessary to distinguish between Acadians in other parts of the world.

So if not New France then what about?

Acadians of the Colony of Acadia

Colony of Acadia

or simply

Acadia

Regarding the other two projects to which you referred, there is some overlap, but not the same.

"Le Grand Dérangement" targets those Acadians forced to leave the region, better known as the Colony of Nova Scotia during this period. These people were relocated to many parts of the world.

"Acadian and French Canadian Emigrants to Louisiana" targets not only Acadians from Acadia but also French Canadians that migrated specifically to Louisiana.

Thanks for including me in the discussion.

Susanne Floyd PRO

12/26/2023 at 11:50 PM

Interesting discussion above about the Acadians.

I have a problem with finding two possible women of the same name, time period, etc. and launched a separate discussion if someone could take a look at it.

Grace Hargis

Grace Boswell Harrell

Here is the discussion I launched. https://www.geni.com/discussions/273734

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Susanne Floyd PRO

12/26/2023 at 11:53 PM

The catch with the women above is that they are in totally different families right now. A merger needs to be reviewed and if not done, the profiles need to be refined and locked with notes. I am still looking, but not much else I am finding.

I will consult the "Harrells of Eastern NC." Maybe it has something.

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/27/2023 at 8:38 AM

John Ashley, of Coffee County husband of
Elizabeth "Betsy" (Garrett) Ashley, of Laurens County continues to be confused/conflated:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8956217/elizabeth-ashley
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8956205/john-ashley
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27377941/john-ashley

Please unmerge: https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=85038271690
and https://www.geni.com/merge/view?revision_id=85038316730

help figure out which man she married?
Curated profile

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/27/2023 at 8:39 AM

I can help get them corrected at FindaGrave once they are correct here on Geni, please see

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/27/2023 at 8:43 AM

Also, I doubt he was adopted unless someone has a source/evidence for the two sets of parents attached to John Ashley, of Coffee County
"Biological son of Benjamin Ward and Margaret (Peggy) W. L. Ward (Ashley)
Adopted son of John Ashley and Mary Francis Ashley (Shepherd)"

Private User

12/27/2023 at 12:17 PM

Capt. James Parker has no relationship tab and his marriage to Elizabeth Long needs to be amended to 23 MAY 1643, Woburn, Middlesex, Mass, please.

Erica Howton C

12/27/2023 at 12:48 PM

Private User - done

Erica Howton C

12/27/2023 at 2:28 PM

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087 - Detached parents from John Ashley, of Coffee County

Susanne Floyd PRO

12/27/2023 at 9:46 PM

I'm not sure what to do with this profile. A Mary Benton Pratt from Connecticut was merged into a Mary Benton Harrell from North Carolina back in 2010 and it has just become an avalanche of crazy.

Francis Harrell was connected to Mary ? as her husband with a child Jacob Harrell.
Dec 29, 2010 at 8:49 PM

The profile tab is Mary Leander Pratt and the profile is Mary Leander Pratt

Any help is much appreciated. I have been working on this family now for a while and hopefully getting some things straightened out.

Susanne Floyd PRO

12/27/2023 at 10:20 PM

Question - Is it appropriate to put an American Revolutionary flag on a pre-revolutionary profile? I am running across a string of profiles with the thirteen stars flying on profiles from the 1600s and early 1700s. Is there a protocol for images? I don't like contacting people, but I'd like to try to post another image and reset the profile photo if it is within the guidelines.

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/27/2023 at 10:22 PM

Short answer, no.

Cynthia Curtis, A183502, US7875087

12/27/2023 at 10:25 PM

Erica Howton
Still need unmerges
They look like two different men

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