Genealogy Chat

Has anyone seen the NEW Names Summary. It now has hot matches and allows you to see the surnames added in the last day, rather than having to change how many days you want to view like it did before. It is getting better. Although the hot matches, doesn't match place of birth. As it hot matched one of my ancestors born in Edinburgh to someone born in Bedfordshire and someone born in London to someone born in Jamaica.

The hot matches does not work. As I know I have an exact match to someone on this site and it didn't match them. How disappointing.

I dislike what genes has done to the name summary I now have 12 pages to go through instead of four and it takes forever

Thanks for the tip Siobhan; I am about to have a look. Funnily enough, when I filled in GR's survey a couple of weeks ago I suggested an improved automatic matching of names with those matching on, say, first name and year or place of birth being flagged up, so it sounds as though they may have been thinking the same way! Anyway, I'll have a look and see if it lives up to my expectations... Kate.

Have had a look - and it is a nice idea but would take hours to look through them all. I would prefer it if it was more flexible. Still, maybe if I have nothing to do one day I will look through them! Kate.

Well, I clicked Names Summary and then went and wrote three long emails whilst the page popped up. I see I have 17 pages of names summaries to look at. Hubby and I both have my dad on our trees on GR so I asked for exact matches on his surname. (only took me about 5 minutes to find his surname on the list lol). Yes, the exact match thingy did show that we both have a man with the same details on our trees. But that was a known one that I was using to check. The system is Sooooo slow I can't see myself using this (and certainly not to just browse around). Sarah

Not too sure about this wonderful 'new feature'. It seems to give a 'Hot Match' to anyone with the same name born 5 years either side of your own rellie, wherever they were from. If you have someone with a common name you will get hundreds of them. Is it supposed to be a match just for names added in the last few days, or for names added at any time? Can it be switched off?

where is the message boards that used to show up next to the names on name summary gone? Jeanette

Good point, Jeanette. They were far more useful!!

rubbish! oops, sorry! :-) Joy

SORRY BUT I AGREE WITH JOY..... WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS NEW THING WHEN ALL THEY GO ON IS THE YEAR OF BIRTH (+/_5) AND NOT THE PLACE OF BIRTH. LYN.

I have not one single hot match according to the list, but I know I do!!!! :-(

me, too, Sylvia - that's why I put rubbish!! Joy

If these so-called wonderful matches are going to accumulate from now on, you could end up with thousands of them. There is no way that I would bother to trawl through them all to see if any of them were new.

This morning when I saw 'hot matches' I got excited until I found the matches where only through dates/years of birth and not place of birth, sorry I am not very impressed with its usefullness. As said above you now have to trail though pages of another 100 names, not making this site any easier at all. Elizabeth

I don't get any hot matches even though I know there are quite a lot of entries for the same people. How come some of you get them? Mind you it sounds as if they're not that useful. And still so SLOW!! Anne

Well I must be doing something wrong! I have just had a look and I can't see anything that says HOT MATCHES!! Also, the YOUR NAMES and NAME SUMMARY appear to be exactly the same! Lynne

My hot match seems to have been dunked in a glass of water! Sarah

Looks like Genes Reunited have taken off the Hot Matches again. I am not surprised cos it is Rubbish. I mean how can you possible have a hot match by just the year of birth with 5 years either side. One could be born in New Zealand the other in Mars, but it would still hot match them if they were born about the same time. Also I know there are names on here that are exact matches to names in my tree and it didn't match them. I did request a smart match thing off genes reunited. But this was not what I had in mind at all. It is completely useless. Which is probaby why they have taken it off.