Margaret Powell (Whitney) - This tree is all messed up:

Do you have an on line guide you can link?

Well, it looks like you have to be a paying member to do serious editing. And I'm trying to avoid getting committed to all the various memberships out there. I made a huge mistake a few years ago when I entered my tree on Geni. Now I just want to delete it. I've inseted a certain amount of my new tree into the mess, but it's still attached to the old stuff that I can't delete.

Philip can you be specific about what is messed up? I'd be happy to try and fix it, I just need some info. Please?

If you want full edit access to profiles it is not a question about paying or not, but depends on collaborating with one of the managers.

Erica, - Philip DID link to a profile, - take a look to the left.

No tree view on iPad and no guiding outside link so I can correct.

Phil Hotlen

I'm looking through the tree and - yeah, this tree is all messed up. I can help with the edits but I need YOUR help with the sourcing. It doesn't need to be perfect, but I'm going to have to re-create some profiles.

I thought perhaps start here:

Alice (Powell) Warren

It looks like she somehow turned into three separate persons, and you were trying to turn her back into herself.

Is this a decent place to start, in your opinion?

http://www.sargentrivia.com/My.Family/p4705.htm

Any clues on her correct parents?

Bjorn - Philip & I collaborate, he probably collabs with a lot of us. This tree is seriously messed up.

I hear mixed things about Anthony Maitland but at least this is serious research quoting Savage - are you tracking the Harcourt family? Because if so I'll make that the priority.

http://www.antonymaitland.com/hptext/hp0306.txt

My main tree and variation trees are at Ancestry.com, where I pay a huge subscription fee. I wanted to use Geni as a back-up.

As for Susanna Harcourt, she was just a female along the way. I'm mainly tracing my U5b2 line with her being along it. In the Long Island area in the 1600s and 1700s, it goes Hunt > Phillips > Townsend > Harcourt > Potter, going backwards in time. Before that, it is all in England with a dash of Wales way, way back. There could be mistakes in the distant past (England), as I had to make an occasional assumption to bridge a gap. But my constructed maternal line, and my U5b2b2 both end up with a probable Danish "Viking" origin, whether Normandy or England (Jutes?).

Philip by Susannah Harcourt you are referring to this profile?

Susannah Townsend

I'm used to doing it Ancestry.com style; using maiden names for females. All the other genealogical websites seem to use their married names.

If you would like me to connect you to one of my trees on Ancestry, then please give me an email address of yours. None of my public trees are perfect. But I have a few people connected to viewing a large tree that is a big mess. But it has a lot of expanded information in it.

http://www.geni.com/account_settings/all_account_settings is where you can adjust your display settings to show "birth surname" only.

Geni is non sexist and recognizes that both men and women may be born with one surname name yet die with another, so profiling labeling reflects this.

If you shoot me a Geni mail with the name of a public tree on ancestry and a key ancestor, I'll find it and they and conform some of the data in these smushed together trees against it. :)

In order for me to have you, or anyone, invited to connect to a tree of mine at Ancestry, I need a personal email address. If you already have access to Ancestry.com, then my "handle" is "Baltimore37". When you search for a specific person and see an assortment of matches, Baltimore37 is mine. However, I notice that some of mine given are really old and not up to date. But you can always send me an email message asking for clarification.

That's exactly what I wanted Philip, thank you. I don't maintain a tree on Ancestry but have access, so I can compare the two and look at discrepancies.

It's going to take a several person effort in Geni to straighten out (I believe 3 lines) so bear with it.

This is still messed up. Who are the correct parents for Susannah Townsend?

David I think the Virginia and Long Island different families need to be picked apart here from the "smerge.". I usually have better luck going from bottom up.

The Long Island family is referenced in the overview (below the fold)

History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cock, of Killingworth Upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y.

By George William Cocks, John Cox. Compiled by George William Cocks. Published by privately printed, 1914

JOHN (3) TOWNSEND (John, ?Robert), b. ; d. Oyster Bay. about 1716; m. : 1st. Susannah Harcurt, b. ; d. before 1696; dau. of Richard and Elizabeth (Potter) Harcurt, of Warwick, R. I., and Oyster Bay. L. I.