The mother (Lucy Ludwell Lee) is a public profile, so anyone collaborating with her manager, or any curator. How is this different than before, other than the question of whether that manager is an inactive user?
The mother (Lucy Ludwell Lee) is a public profile, so anyone collaborating with her manager, or any curator. How is this different than before, other than the question of whether that manager is an inactive user?
Mike, I did not go to her profile, just tried to contact the manager of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee, "Light Horse Harry", Governor of Virginia in regards to the correctness of Ann Grymes as the name on his profile was wrong.
Can someone please go to this profile
Robert John Warriner
and report it as an abandoned tree? The submit button isn't working for me.
Can someone please report the following as abandoned?
http://www.geni.com/people/Jenyf%C3%A8re-Chiasson/6000000004128518445
Like this one - XYZ DO NOT MERGE XYZ
I posted it to this thread a month ago.... I reported it as an inactive tree 4 months ago, and it is clearly a spoof account used to merely upload a giant GedCom, and do this day I still cannot merge with it, it hasn't accepted merge requests, nor collaboration or family group invites.
Does this mean that since this is a fake account, and the user will never come back, that I will never be able to merge?
And what's worse, is that since the new privacy revisions, I can't even view the pending merge, I get the message:
Error
You don't have permission to view this page
What's more... I have over 200 pending merges now that I can't even review, and I'm sure the other user I'm trying to merge with cannot either, because they almost certainly can't see the merge either?
Stephen and others:
I have made a suggestion to Mike Stangel that would at least solve the problem of pending merges that you can't review.
Also I think that Private User told us in another thread that all abandoned trees had been addressed, so I am not quite sure why XYZ DO NOT MERGE XYZ has not.
Stephen, I am having the same problem with the error message. I haven't counted lately but at one time, the first 10 merges on a page caused that message.
David, would you share the suggestion and Mikes answer. Mike and I discussed the problem in a public forum when the problem first surfaced but I don't remember where it is. However, nothing seems to have improved.
Something happened - now there are a ton of private profiles previously added by XYZ XYZ that have no manager and need to be made public / taking over someone. Can a curator help?
http://www.geni.com/people/Bj%C3%B8rn-P-Brox/285725352490006131 is in my opinion the acknowledged expert on such matters. There are things I could do to release those profiles - and would have done in the past - but for various reasons am not going to do here and would rather leave this to a curator.
Angus
Look at the tree.
http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000001747063205
Though the XYZ profile says she was born in 1948, her wife (yes I did say that right) was born in 1639. All the profiles around her are in the 1600s - ripe for zombie treatment by a curator.
For example, her parents in law's profiles were both private - so I just took them over and made them public to make my point. They are both profiles from the 1600s.
I can't speak for all his private profiles, but the ones in the immediate family group of someone from the 1600s should surely be made public? That's why I would think a curator who is specialised in this kind of thing should take a look.
I am not trying to breach anyone's privacy.
Sorry I was saying that what we do for abandoned trees wouldn't help because up to 4th cousins would still be considered private. is response to
Does reporting abandoned trees do anything for a user's family inside their "Fourth Cousins and closer" tree?
That was not specific to mr XYZ. I unclaimed his profile which is why David could take over management of that profile.
Glad this all got sorted out.... I was able to complete the merges, as well as claim a bunch of immediate family members the XYZ Gedcom had added, and then mark them private (since they are people who are still alive, and my fourth cousins)
But yes, there are still 10,000+ unclaimed profiles, although David and a man named Peter Dutton Jr. claimed large swathes of the "historic" tree. From what I can see, 100% of XYZ's profiles have been made public, and can be claimed by relatives, which is probably the best course of action.
Steve
Here's a few more abandoned trees:
These are almost certainly a GEDCOM uploads. All the indicators point to that. (Zero profiles invited... zero photos, etc, etc)
Unknown Profile
These appear to simply be abandoned:
Private User
I recognize most of the profiles in for these two users are "private" trees, but I'm related to chunks of their tree... is there any other way to complete pending merges with such abandoned trees?
@Stephen
look at these :
http://www.geni.com/search/matches/6000000004681966940?fsession_id=...
http://www.geni.com/search?search_type=people&names=Homer+Cliff...
the manager is stil active,but with a new acount.
3 gedcoms it looks like.
In the so called abandonded trees or those who refuse to answer their contact mail, refuses to merge, refuses to join family group, reuses to collobraroate is there any way I can clami my grandfather's profiles, and those of his parents, siblings and those of my gr. or gr. grandparents that this non-co-operative geni user has entered into his famil tree and the nearest connectin grandparent is back 6-7 generations - this is one reason I have made public all my profiles since all but us 'direct cousins' of which there is only 3 on my mothers side and also dad's side - and thus far non are interested in genealogy - and think i have totally lost my mind the last 35+ years because I have done it and still do it