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questions about "add to family group"
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hi,
recently I and a fourth cousin of mine have added a lot new members of our tree, and started to invite and new members are joining. I was happy that it all looked as if we could see all of the distant profiles, but now when they are joining I realize that,..... I think it is only my fourth cousins Geni tells their stories about, in the "news" and I can see their photo-albums, when they are online and so on? And the children and grandchildren of my fourth cousins are defined as not members of my family group? If so, I have to ask them to join my family group, and if they accept it is ok, everything. Correct me if I misunderstand.But: Today in our tree there are about 100 profiles I have to add (if they all join) and do all members in the tree have to add everyone else to get full info on everyone, or are there some key-profiles we can add, with result that the others also come?
And: what about my children, and other´s in my generation grandchildren, what info do they get at present, and how many people do they have to add to their family group......
...... maybe I am extremely stupid, maybe the whole issue is very easy, I hope you can tell me. The issue is that I and my fourth cousins want us and our children/grandchildren to get information of each other
Posted 2 months ago # -
UnnJoh, what you are saying makes sense. Up to fourth cousins should mean up to fourth cousins n times removed. That would allow you to view children, grand children etc of fourth cousins (as well as parents, grand parents etc. which you already can view in the current set up). Hope Geni will agree with this logic.
Posted 2 months ago # -
one thing you might want to do - although these 4th cousins SHOULD be family - go to your profile
you will find a series of links - by me, by my family, my friends, unconnected - clicking on these will allow you to see how your/their profile will appear to each of these groups.Posted 2 months ago # -
hi again, I can not view my childrens "recently added" in their lists, so I can´t go through all their family members to see who are there or not, but my own "recently added" works, and as I understand are my family group my fourth cousins and their partners, but not their children or grandchildren. I´ve looked at my fourht cousin´s list of family group, and it is the same with him: I and my husband are in his family group, but not our children or grandchildren.
There are a lot of people in the generations younger than me, so for instance of 27 added profiles on the same day I only have 5 in my family group, the rest are "fourth cousins once or twice removed" and the youngest I don´t even can "profile-surf" to from their parents, I must go into the tree to view them, from there I can see their profiles of course, but it is clumpsy.
Well, I´m curious and can spot them if I want, but one big reason for me to invite this branch of the tree was of course that our children should get information of each other, and now I understand that they will not have that, that´s for sure.... :(
I have invited two of these young people to my family group, and they have not answered, (I sent mail, tried to explain how everything was, etc, etc) probably because they didn´t understand, they have not seen us, not walked around in the tree, and how could they know? And here I´m back again to the same question: what happens if I invite them all (about 50-70 perhaps) , will the result only be that I get information about them all, not my children, nor my sister´s children, or my first cousins children and so on? Do we have to invite all over, that will problably be.... hm...100 X 100 .... I´m no good at maths, but it must be a LOT of invitations....
??? am I right or wrong?Posted 2 months ago # -
and: now I have about 250 more family members than blood relatives, but my children have now exactly 117 more blood relatives than family members, I did a quick check, and it looks as many in the youngest generation have more blood relatives than family members, does that have with this issue to do?
Posted 2 months ago # -
bump.
my distant family members are entering, Geni does not give me any info about that, but I keep an eye on my fourth cousin who invites them, and I can follow what they´re doing. But I realize that it is about only I who registrers their activities, not anyone else in my branch of the tree. And the children of my fourth cousins (I have a lot of fourth cousins in that branch), maybe they never will discover us over here, though we are in the same tree? I have still not got any answer from the two members I suggested "add to family group" , and I am not surprised, they don´t know who I am, and they don´t discover me in Geni, althoug I do things almost every day, have a lot of photos etc, etc, they cannot see it.....
Posted 1 month ago # -
we feel your pain. THere was a time we could have seen them joining, read their stories. But in the interst of "privacy" (apparenlty someone found their name on the web) we were blocked from seeing what our families are doing, no matter how wide we have our net spread.
there are other things we have also lost, which we were once promised would never be taken away from us, but that's another story (that you can find if you troll the back forums.Posted 1 month ago # -
I have a first cousin who, according to her facebook profile, makes web-videos for people professionally. Seems to be good on the one she made for us.
She has yet to figure out how to accept the invitation to come to geni to claim her profile and access the family picutures there for her video.
Go figure.Posted 1 month ago # -
this is crazy: Today a male "fourth cousin twice removed" of mine joined the tree (Geni did not tell me, but I keep check my fourth cousin´s doing) and I have not full access to his daughter, my "fourth cousin thrice removed", blood line all the way, only blue names. I can surf to her profile, but not from it, am not permitted to go into her profile from tree, and some other limitations. But I have full acces to this profile´s uncle and great uncle on her mother´s branch, that is in-laws from my corner of the tree, they are my "fourth cousin twice removed's wife's brother", "fourth cousin twice removed's wife's uncle".
annoying
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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