Shalom Brooke,
are the profiles for these people already in your tree? If so, you will get much better results if you "tag" the relevant profiles. If you do, this discussion will be visible from the profile itself, and will give people more information and context about them.
See Tagging under ==> http://wiki.geni.com/index.php/Glossary#T
Shmuel-Aharon Kam,
Geni Curator