More examples needed?

re: Maybe best to definitely confirm all information in locked fields and locked profiles before applying locked status.

I strive for it, but preventing mis merges takes priority; and unfortunately, not enough members help source profiles, so it’s a slow process. And a lot of profiles were locked in early days, before we had relationship locking.

The solution is to request fields be unlocked for your update by discussion (curators assist discussion, probably) and relocked when you advise it’s now corrected.

Private User - can you post links to profiles so we can better examine?

Use google

Example: geni: Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Red Woman

{Infant son}

(Shows as no name)

About > History > Facts

The profile was entered without a name.

We can see the same through the revisions tab.

https://www.geni.com/revisions/history/profile-34620827174?a=compare&from_id=prev&tab=facts&to_id=3479626970

So now, I suspect that we know Sitting Bull had three children with Red Woman, but we don’t know the names of two of them. So I will go to the references in Sitting Bull’s profile to see if I can find out more, and fill in to the “Biography”.

So the answer to that one is the source data named him “no name.”

{Infant son}

https://amertribes.proboards.com/thread/167

SITTING BULL HAD FIVE WIVES THOUGH OUT HIS LIFETIME LIGHT HAIR, SNOW ON HER, RED WOMAN, SEEN BY HER NATION AND FOUR ROBES. 12 CHILDREN WERE BORN TO SITTING BULL.

3. RED WOMAN/SCARLET WOMAN
MARRIED: 1871 DIED1876 DIED FROM DISEASE

CHILDREN:

1. SON: NO NAME DIED IN CHILDBIRTH
2. SON: TAKES THE GUN, BORN 1868 DIED 1877 KILLED BY HEAD TRAUMA

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Geni had a duplicate which I merged.

I also added a display name of (infant son) so it’s less confusing.

Good question, and we got citations added!

In a collaborative tree, we hope for any manager or interested person to contribute.

“many hands make light work.”