The Beatles project

I got a bit bored with my own lineage and, along with my lovely new collaborators Private User and Private User, I've decided to start a project to look into the ancestry of the Beatles, their wives, and their closest associates and ex-Beatle bandmates. The project page is here: http://www.geni.com/projects/The+Beatles
It's quite skin-and-bones at the moment because for some reason I don't see the option to add profiles to the project yet, but I suspect that's because I don't have management of them yet. Anyhow, please let me know if you're interested in joining the fray! This is my first project, so collaborative input is very welcome. :)

That's a cool idea for a project. Count me in.

Great! The current priority is adding profiles Geni is missing. I've already made profiles for Stu Sutcliffe and Brian Epstein. I'd also like to add George Martin, Pete Best, and possibly Neil Aspinall and Mal Evans too.

If you started the project, look under more , then projects. You need a Curators help go to the curators profile, more projects, and add them into the project.

PS that's more project under the name of the person you want (the beattle ect) to be part of the project

Maybe Daniel Walton can take care of that for us since he's a curator?

If you can post the links for the family members I can add them to the project. This can be time consuming though. Geni is supposed to be working on a "bulk add" feature for projects that will make adding the profiles much faster.

Here are the wives:
Cynthia Lennon
Olivia Harrison
Patricia Boyd
Maureen Cox
Barbara Bach
Heather Mills

i loved the beatles and lived in liverpool from 1993-1996, so i m in too hehe

Laura,

What a fun idea!

It will tie in with my "Dakota Building" project as well. Feel free to add me as a collaborating Curator.

So where are John and Yoko? The ones I found before are not good copies.

I did quite a bit of searching and these are the best-researched profiles I've found (shockingly)--and there really aren't any duplicates connected to the big tree. Erica or Daniel, if you could make them master profiles, that would be a good start, I imagine?

John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Ringo Starr

Since he's my favorite fifth Beatle, I'm planning on working on Sir George Martin's profile next.

What do we think about adding Jane Asher to the project? She wasn't a wife but certainly looms large in early Beatles history. At the same time, I don't know if we should extend the project to EVERYONE the Beatles ever associated with.

I added the wives but Cynthia Lennon and John Lennon aren't on the big tree yet though so I can't add them to the project.

All the rest I added and made MPs.

I'm very surprised that John's Stanley genealogy has not been thoroughly researched. Several biographies claim that John descended from Sir Thomas Stanley (1435 - 1504). Looking at Sir Thomas's genealogy gives no clue which one of his sons is the next in John's pedigree. Working up Julia Stanley's pedigree only goes back a few generations. I recently "tweeted" Yoko to see if either she or John have ever published their family trees. Maybe if more people express an interest to her, she may have information that would be useful to this project.