Geni ancestral links

This is a very nice idea Will Chapman (Vol. Curator), which allows family to browse all the ancestors / possible ancestors in one place.

I think if I do this, I'll add some highlights to the project narrative, such as for my mother's Williams line, the heroic ancestors Stephen Stowe, Martyr or Milford and his wife, Freelove Baldwin and Richard Williams, the Father of Taunton and his wife Frances Deighton, for whom a nearby town is named.

hi Will ... Liu Bang 劉邦, Emperor Gaozu of Han . is my 74th ...
amazing isnt it ...

This is the kind of thing that I wish Geni could implement a way to warn us against, that along the path, specifically on each step, we could see what the source is (perhaps even with a curator's note), and if it's considered suspect or even fictional, that arrow should look different. Or rather all arrows should be suspect until we have attached sources (or DNA evidence).

On Geni, sources are attached to the profile, yet it's the connections between profiles that make Geni special.

I'm beginning to think these ancestors lists are wrong. Look at any random person's ancestors list... They all have lots of royalty. I mean...come on. Nobody came from commoners according to Geni. Now I check my ancestor list and I'm related to Han Dynasty Kings. This is just getting too thick. Then I checked a random ancestral profile and she had the same Han Dynasty ancestors.. Really?? I think there are many many errors in the Geni World Tree that now it is corrupted. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Kelly Anne McSkimming Well, the vast majority actually do have more ancestry leading to commoners than to royalty, the problem might be, that people in generall are more interested in dispaying the nobel lines, than the others, thus settle for that. To find a farmer who lived in the 1300'c, should be just as fine, as to find a king.

How is it that Liu Bang 劉邦, Emperor Gaozu of Han is not only Will's & Colleens GG but also mine? Why do so many Geni members have the same GGs? Can someone please explain this to me?

Kelly Anne McSkimming
Do you read others comments?

Mathilde van Brabant is the connection between Will, Colleen and you Kelly. If you all have her as a gg, you will also share the same ancestors above her, just as all the others, 10.000 plus, that has her as their gg.

This is an interesting concept. I just wonder if everyone creates their own maternal and paternal projects, that the list of projects on the person's profile (particularly the historical person's profile) will be massive. Will profile managers want to add these persons to the specific family projects?

I created several projects with family names and am working to see if there are connections or what connections there may be, but I don't know if this would even be practical for all the family names in a person's tree.

thanks Will Chapman (Vol. Curator) we're apparently related (re: Geni links), so I "Followed" your Project https://www.geni.com/projects/Ancestors-of-John-William-Webster-b-1.... BTW Liu Bang 劉邦, Emperor Gaozu of Han shows up as my 68th great grandfather compared to your 75th. Of course, I don't know if all these connections are true or not. Only time, which will outlast us, will tell (and it probably, Alas, will not tell us). Interesting, nevertheless.

Mathilde van Brabant is direct for me as well and she only has 8 children attached.
I think people forget what a small world it really is and people have always lived in community, basically, so the gene pool is folks within travel distance.