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Who said Hot Matches are no good?
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Right said Fred | Report | 16 Mar 2006 17:23 |
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I just got my Hot Matches today - five pages of them, and after trawling through and deleting every Mary Dawson and John Croft, I eventually was able to contact 13 new people who I am sure have got one of my rellies! Now I just have to wait for replies... |
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Right said Fred | Report | 16 Mar 2006 17:51 |
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Thanks Pat, I've had one reply that turns out to be no good, but that was a common name, non of the others really are. |
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Merry | Report | 16 Mar 2006 18:04 |
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Lucky you, Tom!! I uploaded a new gedcom the other day. It didn't occur to me that this would send my Hot Matches back to A again.......before that they had just begun on the C's........... Drat! Merry |
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Right said Fred | Report | 16 Mar 2006 18:23 |
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That's because they look at the name and the year of birth. If they were to do it by place of birth that would be silly. Do yuo use county, parish, hamlet etc. How many people give a different birthplace on each census. |
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Joy | Report | 16 Mar 2006 18:25 |
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When I say different place of birth, I mean completely different county. I would rather search myself for contacts rather than look at hot matches |
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Right said Fred | Report | 16 Mar 2006 18:28 |
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yeah - i do that too, but some of them seem to slip through the net. I think that they're a great idea. |
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Merry | Report | 16 Mar 2006 18:34 |
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My problem is that whilst the Hot Matches list shows you the details of the person from the other GR member's tree, it does not show you who they are matching that entry to in my own tree. I have quite an extensive tree on here and I cannot remember the details of every person on it! So.....in order to check each entry (probably about 25% of the Hot Matches I get) I have to look up the name on my home tree to check out who they are trying to match up. This takes ages!! Why can't they show you who they are matching to?? I accept it would be very difficult to match the birth place details because of the various ways people enter this information, but if they could show you ''their entry'' alongside ''your entry'' and give you a quicker way of deleting the ones that are not matches then the whole thing might be easier to deal with. Merry |
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Right said Fred | Report | 16 Mar 2006 19:16 |
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Good idea Merry - hope someone from GR reads this! |
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Unknown | Report | 16 Mar 2006 20:19 |
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I hope someone from GR reads this too, because in among the names born in the wrong continent to mine, the Happy Genes Errors and all the other mishmash (ok I got ONE match in countless pages...!) I also had several Fenners and two Huggins. I HAVE NO FENNERS AND NO HUGGINS (or anything close) IN MY TREE!!! Hot Matches are hard enough without sorting names that you don't have in the first place! Thank you! I feel better for that. Bev x |
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