

Debbie, I just stumbled across your post here and wish I'd seen it sooner -- it would've saved me a lot of headache! :)
We had five completely separate people who'd gotten conflated -- one was a John Bart Payne who married a Nancy Henslee, and another was John Red Bank Payne who had a sister named Nancy Payne and married an Ann Henslee.
It looks like a lot of people who wanted to be managers on Nancy Payne and John Red Bank Payne actually wound up managing John Bart Payne and Nancy Henslee instead.
Also, John Red Bank Payne had somehow wound up buried in Vermont...God only knows. :)
I've separated them out now, but I am going to need to send management invites to the "new" Nancy Payne (John Red Bank Payne's sister), since I had to create a new copy. If I miss anyone, folks can let me know. And I will MP to keep everything separate.
In conclusion:
I would greatly appreciate it if anyone finds anything else incorrect in this area! Wouldn't surprise me at this rate. :)
Ashley, I come across things like this when I'm tracing lines of my DNA matches on Ancestry who don't have enough in their tree for me to know who the common ancestor is. I use Geni to try to figure that out. If the pathways on Geni are wrong, it throws me and everyone else off.
However, I don't attempt to be a manager for any profiles that aren't my direct ancestors. Nancy Payne is my third cousin 7 times removed, and I always feel it's best for directly-related folks to be assigned as managers since they tend to know more of the family history and correct connections.
All that said, even with errors we find on Geni, when everything is connected correctly it's an invaluable tool for trying to find the common ancestors of DNA matches. Thanks for your efforts to correct these family ties.