How to find profiles with multiple managers?

Question

I need to reduce my profile management list. I'm consistently over 5,000. It is tedious to select individuals to release and not leave orphans. Is there an easy way to identify profiles with multiple managers?

Answer 1

The easiest way I can think of is to run a WikitreePlus search with just your id, download the results as a spreadsheet and sort on the manager column. All those managed just by you will be in a block with co-managed ones before and after them depending on the name of the first listed manager.

Comments

Thank you. I'm not sure how to do a "WikitreePlus" search. I have several Chrome extensions related to WT, but I don't see this. I've been going over my list one by one today. Pretty slow. I'm also looking for profiles I'm "watching" but not managing. I could clear those as well and see where I land with single management only before deciding what to do next.

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Try this:

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Beezley-12&MaxProfiles=10000&Format=&PageSize=-1

and change the Format option to Excel to download a file. Then sort on the All Managers column.

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OK, I see that. Thanks so much!

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WOW... Andrew, this is amazing. I could use this for so many purposes... I could sort by, say, birth location and find profiles without birth locations... an amazing option for analyzing one's own list of managed profiles.

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You can do that with the download, but WikiTreePlus can do it for you. For example, searching with

Smith-32867 BirthLocation=MissingLocation

would give the profiles you manage that have nothing in the birth location field.

WikiTreePlus is very powerful with many options. Consequently the documentation is extensive but can be a bit overwhelming at first. If you've not made much use of it then the England Project's tutorial might be a good starting point: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:EP_BTT_Wikitree%2B

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Thanks, Andrew.