Merge Issues 6

Erin Ishimoticha I've completed the three Hibbard merges.

What does it mean "to kill zombies" ?

Thanks Erik for asking that question. Something I always wanted to know but was afraid to ask...

When I find a zombie I usually write the manager the following:
"This profile is a zombie please edit and mark deceased"

A Zombie is a dead profile that is marked alive and can be for example 1000 years old. Some gedcom-files uploaded to geni without death-dates becomes automatically alive and are as alive profiles not vissible to "anyone" , nor mergable and blocking trees and merges.

If you get a message you have a zombie - kill it =) and please check that persons family list for more zombies.

Regards
Susanna

Will geni ever program the system to recognize profiles born over 120 years ago and automatically mark them all 'deceased'?

Erik, a "zombie" is a profile that SHOULD be marked as deceased, but isn't...

Erin I suggest shorter lists, because it will likely take a long while before that whole list is resolved, so it would be easier to delete in pieces.

@Tim - they do, and mark them specific in the tree, but 99% of the zombie profiles does not have a birth date either so it is impossible to detect them all in a simple way.

The major reason for those zombies is that people have built their family trees using a PC program that does not give you an option to mark a person as deceased unless you set a date.

Thanks for your answers. I will keep an eye open for zombies :-)

thanks to Bjørn and others I am killing a lot of them in my tree

I don't trust gedcom uploads from PC programs... too many variables that inevitably cause problems. Even downloaded gedcoms merged into a database are extremely problematic. I learned the hard way years ago and have had to live with a corrupted database ever since.

All requests for Neall, Gunner, "Skip" Bremer and Oliver Stedall are now done.

Erik, you can be pro-active and go on a zombie hunt! Here's how:
1) Go to your profile (or anybody you have Permission to access/edit their profiles).
2) In the Overview tab, Press the [Profiles Managed] link in the Family Statistics box (on the right). This will open a list of all the profiles that you (or they) manage.
3) If you do NOT see the yellow box on the side of the list, press the [show advanced controls] link next to the list title.
4) In the Filters section,
where it says 'Any claimed status', select the 'Unclaimed' option.
where it says 'Any living status', select the 'Living' option.
5) In the columns section, Select a column for living status.
6) Press the [Update List] button. You now have a list of all of your profiles that are marked as living, and haven't been claimed by an actual person.
7) Go to the LAST page of this list.
8) Press the Edit Profiles tab at the top.
9) Go through the page of profiles, and in the [living status] column change to deceased wherever relevant.
10) Press the [Save all changes] button at the bottom.
11) Go to the previous page.
12) Return to step #8. Repeat as needed.

This is actually much easier than the long description would make it look. I just wanted the explanation to be clear as possible.

The reason to start from the LAST page, is that if you start at the beginning, then every time to go to the next page, the list is recalculated, and you will miss pages, because it's going to the next page of the NEW list. This is avoided when going back in the list.

@ erik to kill a zombie, is to mark a long deceased person as deceased. someone born in 1600 you can be pretty sure the have passed, but when gedcoms were uploaded, not all people got marked as deceased that should have. this will create a problem for anyone trying to merge them, for collaborators cannot merge living people ( no matter how much we love them) ^U^
laura John Jackson
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000002908308275 is done

@Erik
A zombie is a living dead
Thus we use that name of Profiles who is dead but in stand as living in Geni.
The next problem is that one cant edit or merge them unless the from there managers are sat as sheared - it give a hell of "unnessecarry" works;-((.

Shouldn't we try to find out which managers are not responding and find out who we have connection to and who not.
As I see it we need to make a reaction especially on the last group of which we can't do any thing at all!!
I find it very frustration that we are making all this work, and a few people are abel to sabotate it totally.

Ok Bjørn
I will start making a total list on my outstanding merges!!

Kevin Lawrence Hanit your Hibbards are done.

John O'Hern, Nancy Sands, Jamie Bearse
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000003938701819?idx=0

Ruth Callahan Partington, Louise Callen, Brandon Bascom, Laura Healy, Daniel Spooner
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000002930827809?idx=0

Wouldn't it be better to create a separate thread for each inactive or unresponsive manager? Then we can follow just the threads that we have permission to act on.

That would be much easier

Better yet would be for Geni to give us a way to publically post our merge issues by Manager, and have them automagically disappear from the list one they have been resolved.

David, that would be very easy to do if Geni would just filter out merge issues from the merge issues list that the current user doesn't have permission to change at all.

@Noah, - in my private merge issues topics we have separate merge issues topics on the most problematic managers, but I thought we should avoid hanging them out in the public even if I already have done that for one specific person in the forum.

Should I open a specific public SDH merge issues topic?

Brandom Bascom
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000000490930073?idx=1

The amount of email's you get from public discussions is an "error" in Geni an they have promised to change it to only send notifications on topics you have participated in.

http://forum.geni.com/topic.php?id=56791#post-525411

If you ask me, being a software developer my selves, it is just a result of bad planning and consequence analysis of a new feature, - it is time for them to include some external beta-testers like me before they release new features.

Private, your Castlemans are done.

Nancy Sands and Frederick Sieber zombie
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000002241127020?idx=0

Frederick Sieber, Paul Bowman and Nancy Sands
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000000426609376?idx=0

Nathan de Graw
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000003747503915
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000003747503906
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000002931156768
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000002909167695
http://www.geni.com/profile/compare/6000000003938050043