This is something that needs to be looked at...by Sally Thomas

Captain John Littlefield

I wrote
Ok Sally I will try to explain how the Geni Tree works..you may already know this,

Many of us with similiar relatives add what we consider as 'OUR' tree.

When all these trees with different profiles end up in Geni's database,

Geni 9the program) then finds some of our ancestors (Public Profiles) that has numerous 'Duplicate Profiles of the same ancestor. when this occurs geni tags the profile to show that there are duplicates.

So if I open what I consider to be my tree and I see a duplicate profile this means that there is a similiar profile in someone else's tree. If I want merge those two profiles I send out a request to the other manager of the profile.

If the other person agrees to merge and accepts my request, we now just have one profile with two managers.

Over the last few years this was repeated over over again until today we have just 'ONE' tree (actual a branch of the Tree) with single profiles managed by numerous people.

So it is not My tree, Your Tree, Joe's tree, it is our common tree.

This is where we are at this point., using Edmond as an example you will notice that that profile is 'Managed' by 44 different managers, this means that 44 different people had copies of Edmond in their trees. It means that we merged 44 different Trees into one.

Ok so now that we have just one Profile for Edmond and his siblings, people can add information about these profiles in the 'About Me' section. So when you see information in there it is not only what you added but also what others did too.

I am writing this so that we both understand how things work. You might have already known all this but I think it is worth repeating so we both have a common understanding of how Geni works.

Sally I fixed this and put the proper children with the proper mothers, unfortunately I found two extra children for Mary Mare.
Charity Littlefield
Charity Littlefield
and
Samuel Littlefield
Samuel Littlefield

I am trying to contact the other managers to possibly shed some light on it

Sally wrote
Hello.. Sorry for the long absense, no electrcity since 2 yesterday.
I really do understand Geni reasonably well.
What I was trying to say is that the comments in John's about me section cannot be verified by me, since I have no knowledge of the resources for that statement, having not added it to his about me section. I felt that someone else should take a look at it and verify it since it is conflicting with the tree, yes, not my tree, I am aware that the tree is a collaboration of many merges. I was concerned about the conflict reflected in that statement and the general tree, which is what I was seeing re: a different John being married to Mary Mere. It would have to be verified by someone else, a curator perhaps. Because I do not have any info on that. Someone else must have it.

ok... and I am following. Also, I found another worrisome thing... 2 EstherBanks, but with no inf on her married to 2 different John Littlefields... I have tried to find her in search on Geni but am only able to find her attacfhed to the other John Littlefield., also with no inf. This Banks is married to a john of another tree and another date of birth, and I believe a different generation as I can best recollect. I an going on to google to do a search for her... or other Banks that might have a connection with her... to see if I can shed any light on her, her husband(s) and children.

When I see a tree that I have pulled up from my latest ancestors, close to me in time, (actually starting from my own profile) I have been refering to it as my tree. Actually what I am saying is the tree that is visible to me as i go back in time... Sorry for the lack of consiceness and better definition of what I am seeing on the screen, on my part.

This is great what you are doing

Do you have links to profiles for any of the profiles that you are mentioning?

It makes it easier for me to go directly to it