Joseph Jenckes, Sr. - Supporting narratives

Erica asked me to offer my assistance, but I am not sure how I may help. I am great at formatting so if I can be of assistance there, let me know. I like the outline format with bullets and did the first part of Joseph Jenks's profile. (Looks like the last have still needs my "touch".

To me the use of bullets makes it much easier to read than the paragraph format... If you would like to know how I get it to look like the top part in his About section, please let me know. I am a retired RN, but think I must have been a teacher in a past life... (Ha!Ha!!) because I enjoy sharing what I know & have learned. It has taken me a while to "perfect" my formatting style & I am still learning some other options.

Again, if I can help with formatting or any other way, please let me know. I don't want to insult you if you already know something.
Hugs,
Cousin Pat

Pat,

Formatting contributes such a huge degree toward the difference between an easily navigated narrative, or a rather scary decent into the perplexing, (particularly the Jenckes lineage) that absolutely 'Yes' I am all for any advice, suggestions, and hand-holding you and Erica are up for!

Thanks again,

Joachim

Joachim,
Here is a project that kind of explain the formatting you can use in Geni:

Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images
http://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-Wikitext-Unicode-and-images/8404

I did a copy/paste to a word doc. to save for future use as i don't usually use the Title options (Giant A, Med sized A, Small A) or the centered title options... The bullet list is what I usually use. For indents I use the star (*). I have found that I do use the Bullet option [*----] when I have more than one line I want to indent once under a heading... you will have to back space if you don't highlight the whole word & you may end with an extra bullet that will need to be deleted. If you are indenting under that first bullet, put 2 stars [** ] and a space then the info you want under that prior line. You can use the bullet option--just click it twice, however, you will need to backspace between the stars so they are side by side and you will have to go down to your line and backspace it to line up with the 2 stars-- for this reason I use the keyboard to do more than 1 star for indents as then I don't have to do quite as much backspacing!!! Don't forget to put a space after the 2, 3 or 4 stars before the info...

You can then go back to your 1 star or add more info with more of the 2 stars --
I can't do the formatting here to show what I mean. Sorry... Look at the first part of Joseph Jencks About section (click on "edit" across from About) to see the formatting... @ Joseph Jenks, founder of the Saugus Iron Works
I think I did the first part of his profile... If you still have question, let me know...

Hugs,
Pat

Thank you for this. I will spend a little more in depth time with it this evening. I'll let you know if I have questions.

By the way, when you receive notifications of 'record matches', using the free Geni basic model disallows for most attempts to either 'confirm' the matching record, or to even view the content beyond the very little displayed..
How, or do you, even utilize any My Heritage source information?

No, i tend to ignore the MyHeritage "matches" since i also am not a member of that system. I think I have over 900 in my possible match file. I am going to have to see if there is some way to "clean house" of those.

If you do discover a way of deleting the match records, please let me know. I now have in excess of 400 and that number seems to balloon daily.

Joachim - I have thousands. :). I use them if they can add value (including confirmation of the Geni tree design) but I am very careful about "when & where" to use the data I see as a MyHeritage data subscriber.

In this part of the tree -- the early arrivers to the American colonies -- there's a lot of outmoded data. Luckily there "is" good sourcing available with a bit more work.

Two stalwarts are The Great Migration Project and Torrey's New England Marriages before 1700. The latter is available to view free in google books, and there are numerous sites that source from Anderson's work in progress:

https://www.greatmigration.org/

Further "down" the tree (the 1700s) published family studies are a great option.

Once you hit the beginning of the US Census in 1790 trees become far more trustworthy as they are sourcing from that data, which is part of the MyHeritage record match service available.

Hi Erica,

Thank you for the perspective. I have only really paid attention to those articles of matches that either:

1...confirm a record detail I have reached the same consensus on,
2, provides record information that challenges something I have decided to use however, comparison between the two demonstrates a reasonable merit for further research before I commit the record too confidently to a lineage. The Mary Tervyn issue comes to mind. Sometimes it's only as unremarkable as divergence of one date, or maybe as significant as un-reconcilable name patterns I had not previously considered.. I haven't actually had an occasion to undo a sittings progress based upon the content of a non-matching example.
It would be nice however to weed-out those records that will never provide me any pertinent information. Can we simply 'reject' a record or is that a Premium account feature?

The MyHeritage record & data subscription is an add on option to a Geni PRO subscription, and with rules - I must be a manager of the profile or it's in my direct bloodlines, for instance. The problem I face is when a profile match is mostly correct but has errors: do I reject or confirm? I tend to confirm but never use it as a "source.". Because even the errors, when pursued & tracked down, can open new doors. And we have the Master Profile program, and the multiple manager collaboration, to help correct -- many eyes on!

Mary Tervyn is a perfect example. The source "notable biographies" is new to me, and so far seems pretty good, but they had the error historians of great migration (in this case, NEHGR articles) have otherwise corrected. Confirm or reject their Joseph Jenckes? I would confirm.

My question is with the new price of Geni $199, do I still have to pay separate for MyHeritage? There's no way I can afford $400 a year for both. If that's the case I'll move all my stuff to www.FamilySearch.org, where it's free. l have been with Geni since 2008 and provided over 6,000 relatives and source data. I am really disappointed there was no warning or price option for the new prices.