Missing link to Great Grandmother

Hi Tess you have disconnected Mary from her husband, i will reconnect for you.

Mary (Twin) Martin

As an aside please don't add terms like twin and immigrant to name fields as it cab block the software from working correction or even encourage false matches.

Looking at the logs i think what's happened is that you've started merging your tree with another version of your family created by another user, which is entirely correct to do, but this has resulted in Mary having two husbands, it looks like to fix this you have tried to disconnect one but instead have disconnected both. I restored both husbands and the way forward is for you to merge those two profiles

https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229705547-How-do-I-merge-du...

Mary also aha a sister named Mary, who probably needs to be merged into her profile.

There are two sisters, Jeesa and Jessie, that are most likely duplicates of each other.

Then there is a half brother, George, who may actually be intended as a full brother but has not been added correctly to represent that. Do you know?

Hi Tess, when i look for "Augustine John Black" I mostly just turn up your own work looking for him.

It looks like you have found the SSN data for John Black and used this to populate Private
I would recommend not populating the Geni profile with this data unless you have some actual evidence that the death record doe s in fact reflect the man you seek. Posting speculative data has a bad habit of setting up an echo effect.

Augustine Black is not such a rare name, and John Black is not unusual at all. I can not find a US enlistment for Augustine Black. But those records are not 100% reliable so me not finding something is not proof of anything. There is an option to contact the US Army directly to request service records, it has been a few years since i worked WW2 records so i don't have an address handy.

Looking at US census records doesn't turn up any obvious Augustine's and too many John Black's born in SC, c1911.

One alternative way forward would be to research the 9 different Augustine Black's that do show up in the US Census records (none in SC) to see if any of their families moved to SC or had a son named "AJ" or "A. John" or "John A", etc.

Hi Tess,

Yes there is, i just need to remember best way to do it.

When my mother passed i inherited her genealogy notes and that led me to cousins already active on Geni. I had a job where i had to be online all day but had very little to actually do so i ended up spending as much as 50 or 60 hours a week on Geni (12 hour nightshift roster).