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Hot Matches
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Annina | Report | 18 Jul 2009 10:26 |
Please, before I lose the will to live, do I have to answer obvious wrong matches, it takes me days to do so. |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 18 Jul 2009 10:33 |
Annina |
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Annina | Report | 18 Jul 2009 10:51 |
Thank you so much folks, I was worried about site protocol, but if that is ok it will save me going bald!! |
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AllanC | Report | 18 Jul 2009 11:33 |
If a match is only for one name then probably it's not worth even looking at, let alone contacting the other member. The problem is that the Genes computers only match names and birth years and have no way of filtering out mismatches of birthplace. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 18 Jul 2009 11:47 |
Annina |
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AllanC | Report | 18 Jul 2009 12:08 |
... and if the number of first contacts I've had from hot matches is anything to go by not many other people follow up hot matches! |
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Thelma | Report | 18 Jul 2009 12:19 |
Hotmatches can take a long time to appear.I treat them as a memory jogger,only. |
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Rose | Report | 18 Jul 2009 12:27 |
Hi Annina |
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Margaret | Report | 18 Jul 2009 14:02 |
Hi Rose , me being thick ! but can you explain what you mean by putting * after a surname you dont want to follow up, were do you do this, i would love to know .I am also getting fed up with hot matches although i have had some positive feed back but i seem to do all the running and most never reply, also i get the same name repeated and some of my names have never ever come up. |
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Thelma | Report | 18 Jul 2009 14:22 |
Margaret |
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Margaret | Report | 18 Jul 2009 14:50 |
Thanks Jim |
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Annabel | Report | 20 Aug 2009 12:06 |
Would you believe it, had a look at my latest hot matches, some one with 5 matches so took a look they were names of my grandfather's family, so sent a message to the person who had them on her tree, BINGO her grandfather and mine where brothers I did not know about her grandfather as he was born 1902 I had not checked the 1911 census for them, she as a copy of my great grandparent diamond wedding report which was in the local paper, the family lived in Oxfordshire I am in Australia and my contact in Scotland, most hot matches a waste of time but you never know when you will get a hit. |
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Anne | Report | 22 Aug 2009 00:15 |
Hi |