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More Enhancements
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List Filters
Now you can hide profiles in lists that don't have a Photo, Child, Spouse, Sibling, or Parent. Click twice for the red x and those profiles will be excluded from your list.
Resolve Duplicates
If you find a person in the tree with duplicates in their immediate family, use the resolve duplicates option in their more menu. This will open a mini-tree where you can drag the duplicates on each other to merge them.
Improved Hot Matches
We've added some intelligence to hot matches to reduce the number of false positives. We no longer include matches born after your profile died, or matched that died before your profile was born.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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@brox you can use Resolve Duplicates now instead of tacking "&resolve=1" onto the end of the tree URLs. :-)
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
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Great, I noticed a lot of new changes in this release.
It's over midnight in Norway now, so I will wait until tomorrow to try them out.
Tomorrow I will present Geni for the public in the annual "Slektsforskerdagen" (genealogical day) in my hometown.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
Hot Matches still is problematic for me. It continues to list as matches duplicates that I resolved long ago. also ones where I have already attempted to resolve by sending a merge request. And single-name profiles with many matches. But I find in my tree many matches that are not showing up on the hot matches list. This potentially great feature needs some work. i would love to see "newer" matches listed first.
Posted 3 weeks ago # -
And the indexing is still slow. I entered names about 48 hours ago and am still waiting for a match that I know exists to be identified. The names still are not coming up in the index.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
I'm not sure if this is the right place or not... But a recent change (today?) that I noticed is the link "add immediate family" in all profile pages where I have editing rights. In the popup window that appears when I follow the link there is an error. I am prompted to fill in e-mail addresses of both deceased people and minors. And as default I am prompted to add a husband to all males and a wife to all females. Statistically most people do not marry someone with their own sex, so probably it is not the best default values for that field.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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Thanks Nixie, we'll get those fixed! On the adding husband/wife, when I do this I see an option for each, for every person. Are you seeing only one suggested gender?
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
@Mike, also I noticed that sometimes it does not allow you to change parents to the correct one - complains that the tree would be broken, but does not indicate where or how to correct the problem. The only solution seems to be to send it to help@geni.com which is a waste of your time.
Another issue - sometimes the tree paints all genders in blue. Do not know how to reproduce this, but this occurs often.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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@pongal - just use the select parents pull-down menu in the Relationships tab.
There is no "cannot split tree" on that, and it does not matter either since Geni now handle profiles "hanging in the air", - but there should probably be a warning on such actions.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
@brox, yes, that is how we used to do it. As of this morning, the relationship tab refers you back to the tree!
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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For the time being, we are still endeavoring to prevent users from splitting trees. After profile revision history will come tree revision history, at which point it won't matter and we'll be able to loosen things up considerably.
I'd guess the "all genders in blue" problem is in the flash app, but it's hard to know (and harder still to fix) until we're able to reproduce it.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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@mike - most serious problems in my merge group is related to the need of splitting the tree, - breaking marriage and parent/child connections caused by bad merges or Gedcom's with errors.
We urgently need such tools, so please don't block the few tricks we have to do that.
We can't depend on help@geni.com to solve that for us because there are so many, and it would slow down the merge job radically.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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I often find myself supposedly splitting the tree to fix it and remerge it. In the end, I'm able to merge the correct profiles, place the right parents, or whatever. So I also hope this is not blocked. In fact, I wish it were easier to split the tree. It's a pain as is.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Are you seeing only one suggested gender?
@mike Maybe it's because most male already have a wife and most female already have a husband. For example I am male and married to my wife. It suggests that I also should add my husband. It's not so usual that someone has both a husband and a wife...
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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@Nixie, you can do this by adding a wife or husband (whatever the case may be), then changing the gender.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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deleted, - wrong topic
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
@Mike, I agree with brox. Please return the option of selecting parents in the relationships tab. Alternately, come up with a way to inform where the tree would split occurs so it can be fixed. Until that time, please give us back the option we had. Right now we are left with leaving the mistakes as they are.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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@pongal the tree would split right there -- if a person has two sets of parents that are connected to each other only through their common child, then removing one set of parents from that child will split the tree (separating the removed parents and everyone connected to them, from everyone else in the tree).
Perhaps if I understood better the mistakes that you're looking at, I could offer a way to fix them without splitting the tree. For example, find the parents' real child and use "move this person" to connect him/her to the parents first, and then use the "Remove connection" button at the bottom of the edit relationships tab to disconnect the parents from the incorrect child?
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
Mike in the historic tree it is extremely common to have up to 30 different possible sets of parents. Sometimes these are pretty much the same i.e. duplicate profiles and sometimes they are different people erroneously allocated as parents to the profile in question. The same situation arises with partners. It was useful to be able to say this is the correct set of parents and it would be useful to be enabled to do the same with partners, or at least to be able to mark an erroneous pairing. Do you really need examples? There are a great many I could choose from.
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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So what, - I can't see any problems in splitting the tree, - none of the profiles is lost and it is quite easy to reconnect a line again.
There should be a Remove Connection on every connection.
Posted 2 weeks ago #
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