Lewis J. Carn - Please help get the profile(s) correct

Cynthia,
It’s been a while since I did much work on the Geni site so I’m not sure what you’re actually needing. I have done a lot of research into Lewis J. Carn, I am a direct descendant of him.
It might be easier to email me directly at jonathancarn@icloud.com and I’ll try to provide as much information as I can.
What I do know is that the person noted as Lewis J. Carn was not really named Lewis J. Carn. His birth name is Johann Lodvick (or Ludwig) Kern and he was born in Lamperthiem Germany. This information was obtained from the Orangeburg German-Swiss Genealogical Society. He arrived in South Carolina on 20 October 1752 on the ship Cunliffe. He was married to Catherina Elisabeth Strubel and they had 12 children, the first 3, Phillip, Catherine and Rosina were born in Germany. Their son Daniel Carn was the first child born in the Americas and I am from Daniel’s lineage.
Look forward to hearing from you

Jonathan David Carn thank you for the reply.

Basically, go look at the profile and add whatever sources you may have and make any corrections or ask others to weigh in.

I discovered I myself was the manager of several of these unmerged profiles because I had adopted them some time ago.
Typically I will adopt a profile I find orphaned if I am working on the Big Tree using DNA matches because I may be a cousin.
Geni has been a wonderfully surprising way to FIND my brick walls and so I use it as my MAIN tree. I try to add sources as I go but when merging empty profiles, it can be a bit "hairy".
Most people have a personal tree they like to work on and it is usually on paper or Ancestry.
Ideal would be for the sources and discoveries made on personal trees be added to the Geni profiles. That can help ensure that they do not become confused for other people.
These German naming patterns can be especially brutal when same names are repeated in a family group with sisters and brothers all sharing a same first name and the same issue comes from Anglisizing a given or surname such as changing Johan to John and Kern to Carn. Not specific to this group but an example I am pulling from my hat :)

Those ship records are priceless.

I'll take some time to look over this tree. I have mainly been using My Heritage. I have a premium membership that gave me access to a lot of government records, including census, birth and death records in England as well as the US. I got the ship records through the South Carolina Archives.
You are correct about the Anglisizing, that is exactly what happened in my families case. Carn is a English/Welsh name and when Kern is spoken by a German it sounds like Carn in English. I can see this simply being a case of misspelling, it was 1752 and they did not have an iPhone with a translation app back then.