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Birth date estimate

Modesta Minding (von Holst)  
Gender:	Female
Birth:	estimated between 1770 and 1806 
Death:	1814
Immediate Family:	
Daughter of Johann Valentin von Holst and Carolina von Holst

and for Carolina:

Birth: October 13, 1765
Death: November 26, 1788

Tab Overview

https://www.geni.com/people/Elisa-Katharine-Alice-Wulffius/6000000026039558950 - Link broken

• URI in source: http://periodika.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=fr#panel:pa|issue:/p_003_rist1886n38|article:DIVL59|query:Thoms%20Emilie|issueType:P
• link points to: http://periodika.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=fr#panel:pa
• the link has label: http://periodika.lv/periodika2-viewer/view/index-dev.html?lang=fr#p...
• text following the label: |issue:/p_003_rist1886n38|article:DIVL59|query:Thoms%20Emilie|issueType:P

Localization

1. https://www.geni.com/account_settings/localization
   1. option to change to YYYY MM DD, not option for ISO 8601
   2. in editing interface for a profile in light grey it now shows YYYY MM DD in empty date fields, but filled fields are in YYYY/MM/DD format - none of this is ISO 8601
   3. page display is not affected by the change in date format
2. on merge pages dates are shown in US format, e.g. "3/30/2013"
3. on message pages dates are shown in US format, e.g, "8/27/2022 at 12:48"

Time errors

Seen several times:

• error of one year, e.g. https://www.geni.com/people/Alexej-Iwanowitsch-Sta%C3%ABl-von-Holstein/6000000111217624034
• day number and month number switched, e.g. April 7 vs July 4

Merge

merge direction to newer item

1. Created on 3/30/2013 https://www.geni.com/people/George-Christopher-von-Trotta-Treyden/6000000020052623943
2. Created on 4/29/2020 https://www.geni.com/people/Georg-von-Trotta-gen-Treyden/6000000132413119825

1. Created on 2/1/2019 https://www.geni.com/people/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD-%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2/6000000086904567853
2. Created on 3/5/2009 https://www.geni.com/people/Iwan-Michailowitsch-Tatarinow/6000000003071752999

merge direction to older item

1. Created on 1/28/2013 https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-Margaretha-von-Plettenberg/6000000019303807782
2. Created on 4/29/2020 https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-von-Trotta-gen-Treyden/6000000132412774967

More than one father

1. https://www.geni.com/people/Heinrich-von-den-Brincken/6000000019181152674
2. https://www.geni.com/people/Anna-von-den-Brincken/6000000010030538301

Name not found in search

after updating profile from Wulf to Wulff the search yields:

1. https://www.geni.com/search?search_type=people&names=Konrad+Wilhelm+Wulff - 0 results
2. https://www.geni.com/search?search_type=people&names=Konrad+Wilhelm+Wulf - 1 result

Carbon footprint

1. Linking to Wikimedia: People manually add links to Wikipedia language editions, the information could more efficiently be stored by having a dedicated field for the Wikidata QID. From there the articles of individual language editions are easily obtained. Example: https://www.geni.com/people/Ernst-Alfred-Cassirer/6000000011627267683 in the about section links to http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Cassirer and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Cassirer but as of 2022-08-30 there are links to 50 Wikipedias https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57188#sitelinks-wikipedia , one could use https://hub.toolforge.org/ and link to https://hub.toolforge.org/Q57188?lang=en https://hub.toolforge.org/Q57188?lang=fr etc. Geni could reduce storage space and editing time by only storing the Wikidata QID.
2. "www.": - URLs could be shorter by ommitting "www.", reducing storage space for third parties