US Presidents and Vice Presidents Clean-Up

Private User

9/10/2010 at 8:18 AM

They are all pretty distant connections, but to be related to 75% of the presidents is just crazy. And Queen Elizabeth, Churchill, Princess Di, Steve Martin, Mayflower passengers... Many of the presidents are related to each other (Bush, Adams are extreme examples, of course) but somehow my ancestors connected multiple lines together, it appears.

To be 10th cousins, you have to have a connection 10 generations back. There are 1024 people that are that far back in a family. So, yes, the odds that you can share 1/1024 with someone else's 1/1024 is not a stretch.

This is what Geni is about though, right? Why else are we putting the "Big Tree" together? I'm not as impressed by my family as I am with Geni. It seems that this is what it's all about. If Geni were to have a marketing campaign, it should center around information like this.

It's all pretty cool

Private User

9/13/2010 at 12:40 PM

I'm currently working on Elbridge Gerry, 5th Vice President of the United States. I can find that he had two politically significant descendants, but I can't find which of his children they are descended from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_Gerry_(Maine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Gerry

If anybody could work some genealogy magic here, it would be appreciated.

Private User

9/13/2010 at 9:46 PM

Gene and I have merged the duplicates in the big tree for the US presidents. We will start on the VPs next.

The things Gene and I need assistance with the most are getting the duplicate profiles stacked (we can approve the merges pretty quickly once they are stacked) and adding sources.

Private User

9/13/2010 at 10:25 PM

Private User:

The work you folks do is very much appreciated. Your donation of time and effort makes this more enjoyable for everyone. You have my thanks.

Private User

9/15/2010 at 4:49 PM

I'm going through and requesting collaboration with the managers of all of the duplicates I can find. This is very slow.

Meanwhile, I'm adding information/profiles where I can. Private User has been extremely helpful so far. :-)

Gene Daniell

9/16/2010 at 10:44 AM

I've locked the Presidents to stop crazy merges that was causing a lot of extra work, but that means most of you can't edit the profiles. Please give some feedback whether having the stability is worth not being able to edit. Geni is looking at ways to lock the relationships and keep the editing open.

If the lock causes too much aggravation, I'll unlock them.

Private User

9/16/2010 at 11:14 AM

I think that locking them is a great idea.

What would happen for merge requests? There are multiple profiles out there. If someone wants to merge, would the request go to you (or maybe all curators) to approve? That would be great functionality.

Private User

9/16/2010 at 11:24 AM

I would like to publicly endorse the locking that Gene did. This will keep everything more manageable. Good job.

I'll go through and link to all of the Master Profiles of all of the Presidents.

Gene Daniell

9/16/2010 at 1:57 PM

Merges can be stacked, but it would take any curator to complete. For the most part I think all merge-able presidential profiles are already merged in. Robert and others stacked a ton, which are all completed now.

If anyone is so inclined the grandparents on back for most presidents need merging.

If you see something that needs attention, post it here.

Private User

9/21/2010 at 8:25 PM

Here is a list of all of the Master Profiles for US Presidents:

If there is a president you are interested in working on you can click "More Actions -> View Nearby Merge Issues" and you will see a list of merge issues for that presidents family-group.

Private User

9/21/2010 at 10:04 PM

Thanks for the MP list Daniel. I'll help work on some of these.

photo owned by Tamara Tucker Swingle

Private User

9/24/2010 at 4:53 AM

When I go to the master profile for President McKinley, it shows President McKinley as being his own brother. This shows up when I go to the path for how he's related to me. I'm a cousin of wife Ida. The path shows Ida, her husband President McKinley, then his brother President McKinley. Just thought you would like to clean that up.

Erica Howton C

9/26/2010 at 4:30 PM

bumping to the top so others are aware of this project ...

Private User

9/26/2010 at 4:46 PM

I started a wiki page for the Presidents - http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/US_Presidents

This is the 2nd list of Notable Profiles. We have been working on Mayflower Passengers - http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Mayflower_Passengers
Discussion here: http://www.geni.com/discussions/6000000010037047103

Vice Presidents are next. We have the list of Vice Presidents, but I'm not sure how many of them have Master Profiles.

Erica Howton C

9/26/2010 at 5:02 PM

Thank you so much, Brendan.

I am sure we *don't* have some of the vice presidential profiles, and I wonder how we should be approach that.

Private User

9/26/2010 at 5:12 PM

My pleasure.

Like with the Mayflower passengers, we can just list them in the Wiki with no link.

Gene Daniell

9/27/2010 at 6:55 PM

All the veeps have master profiles. Just added Biden a few minutes ago.

Private User

9/27/2010 at 7:49 PM

Here are all of the VPs except Biden (he isn't in the search index yet):

Private User

9/27/2010 at 7:55 PM

PS
That is a list of all the Master Profile for US Vice Presidents. Hats off to Gene for a lot of work here.

Private User

9/27/2010 at 8:48 PM

I added the Vice Presidents to the wiki page. Thanks for the list. I also added John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner, III, 32nd Vice President of the USA to the list.

Private User

9/27/2010 at 8:56 PM

I believe that Garret A. Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States was the 25th Vice President. Adlai E. Stevenson, 23rd Vice President of the USA was the 24th

Private User

9/27/2010 at 9:01 PM

Sorry to be writing again. Last time. I believe the order may be off starting with Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President of the USA

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Vice_Pr...

Gene Daniell

9/27/2010 at 9:02 PM

Adlai was 23rd, Garret 24th ... good catch.

Gene Daniell

9/27/2010 at 9:03 PM

Biden

Joe Biden, 46th President of the USA

Gene Daniell

9/27/2010 at 9:16 PM

Brendan ... it seems that I just made several random errors instead of screwing them all up!

Should be ok now. Double check.

Private User

9/27/2010 at 10:10 PM

Gene, thanks for the list and the fixes. I couldn't find Biden, so thanks for the link. Really cool that we have MP's for all the Presidents and Vice Presidents!

Private User

9/28/2010 at 6:02 AM

I heard an interview on NPR this morning about a historian at Harvard who used DNA to prove that Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America and Sarah 'Sally' Hemings did have children together. Here is a link to the interview:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130180642

I haven't read it yet but here is the book she published:
http://www.amazon.com/Hemingses-Monticello-American-Family/dp/03933...

Private User

9/28/2010 at 6:44 AM

There is a link to an extensive Wikip page on the case on Jefferson's profile, under Documents.

Private User

10/7/2010 at 12:53 PM

I noticed that a couple of Presidents were missing from the wiki page, so I added them.

Could someone change Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States to be the 17th President?

Thanks

Private User

10/7/2010 at 1:16 PM

Fixed.

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