James Miller Sr. - Serious errors on this and all subsequent profiles!

I think somebody mashed up at least two Miller families, and then used documentation for one family on the other one. (Do not do this!)

The first thing I do in an instance like this is go to the merges and start undoing recent merges. Sometimes that's the fastest, most economical way to untangle the two (or more profiles). Sometimes it turns out that the merge was fine and I have to take a moment to remerge.

But in this instance i see that the recent merge was not the problem and the older merges are too distant to undo :(

so will someone incharge....change this. or do WE have to change it in our own tree? I am descended from daughter Isabella Lewis, so not much Miller but would like to see the corrections.

IMHO it went wrong from the get-go due to misdocumentation. :-(

Now I have to figure out just whotheheck is supposed to be whose and where - REdoing work that should have been done correctly in the first place. :-P

I'll be happy to put on Curator's Notes, MP, and field lock. With common names and often no dates or locations or About, this happens.

Okay, I think I figured out what happened. Remember that Geni barf-up last month, when releasing abandoned-tree profiles had a side effect of piling up whole slews of Bad "Pending Merges"?

I just got through breaking up 35(!) Pending Merges to a John Miller a little farther down the tree...ALL of them Bad, so *obviously* bad that no human being would or could have tried to match them.

I think a couple of less glaringly bad merges slipped by.

Got the Massachusetts/Vermont family sorted out and separated from the Virginia family. (If they are related, it's not that closely.)

The Virginia family currently starts with James Miller, of "Rowlston Creek" - no idea if his origins are Scottish also.

The Scots-Irish in Virginia were more like in the 1700s than in the mid 1600s, so I'm guess that he was not Scottish.

By the way, Elizabeth "Isabella" Yard needs her children verified - it looks as though she's been pig-piled.

Interesting note from the papers of the "Tristram and Jane", 1637:

26 April [1637]. Account submitted by Joseph Clifton, executer of Daniell Hopkinson, merchant of the Tristram and Jane of London, Mr. Joseph Blowe, for servants carried on her late voyage to Virginia:

Miller James, who paid for his own and his wife's passage Browne William, turned over to James Miller (all on same line) http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/tristramjane.htm

(*All* other persons listed were basically cargo.)

Bettina,

I hope that I was not the cause of the Miller family errors.

The reason that I ask is that the link that you listed above is for the Miller family at the top of the tree that I am in.

I don't know if you took people from this tree and inserted your new profiles.

As noted, a month or thereabouts ago Geni did a mass release of "abandoned tree" profiles, but a bug got into the process - it made "Pending Merges" of any names that looked even remotely possible.

Before the bug was trapped and removed, some people trustingly accepted the bogus matches. What made them so insidious was that the bug *inserted the name of the former manager* as the source of the merge request. That led people to think the matches "must be okay" - when in many cases they were not.

Although the bug has been removed, some clusters of bogus pending merges still lurk - I stumbled over and broke up a 35-member cluster earlier today, further down the Miller tree (Virginia side). No two of them were close enough for a "proper" match.

I think that's basically what happened - the bug threw up a bad match as a "Pending Merge" and somebody (maybe even a curator - it was *supposed* to be curators-only, but wasn't!) made a bad assumption.

The two families have been sorted out, and precautions taken against future mismerges.

I got into this through a side door, trying to figure out if the John Waters who married Arabella Strachey (widow of Henry Cox) was any connection to "my" Waters line (possibly, but not a close relative).

To be a bit more specific, I didn't *remove* anybody - I severed a few relationships, and merged a few duplicate profiles. And I didn't work with Augustine Miller's line at all - mostly just the two daughters.

Thanks for your work on this family.

I just didn't know how you were correcting it.

Question:HELP!
So MY Isabella is from the VA. Millers.
and not the MA Millers?
This is what I have on GENI:

Isabella Miller MP
"Isabella; Lewis", "Mary W /Brent/", "Isabella; Miller"
(1640 - 1704)
Daughter of James Miller of York County, VA and Mary Miller
Wife of Maj. John Lewis "of Chemokins" and Robert Yard
Mother of Sarah Virginia Woodson; Elizabeth Lewis; Mary Muscoe; Capt. Edward Lewis and 14 others
Sister of Mary Strachey; James Miller; Edward Miller and Augustine Miller

James Miller, of "Rowlston Creek" Has gotten himself attached to parents without valid sources (trees are not valid sources). Disconnecting & relationship locking.

Disconnected James Miller, of Charlestown from James Miller (above). Will make new parents.

Ann 'Agnes' Campbell has just been disproved as "daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell" AND "wife of John Miller, Jr." She is one or the other, but not both - or there were two of her.

Sir Duncan's daughter married Sir Patrick Ogilvie, ninth lord of Inchmartin.

John Miller's wife may have been a collateral relative, or no relation (it was common for followers of a clan head to take the clan name whether they were relatives of his or not).

https://www.geni.com/discussions/170645

Yes, that discussion is what drew my attention to "this" error. I'll be on that next. Thank you so much for the sourcing efforts.

Did some work on the Ogilvies, and the "real" Anne/Agnes Campbell is now here: Ann 'Agnes' Campbell

James Miller of VA's wife was NG also, made a new one Mary Miller

This was all bogused up to get related to George Washington

Ah, I see. Wishful Thinking and/or Wild Mass Guesses. :-)