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Hot Matches (Again)
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 9 Aug 2008 10:28 |
HotMatches are matched on name and year of birth, no other details are checked. |
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Huia | Report | 9 Aug 2008 08:33 |
What annoys me is when somebody supposedly has 3 or more names matching mine but when I look I find Joe Blogs appears 3 or more times in their tree to match Joe Blogs who appears only once in mine. |
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Madmeg | Report | 9 Aug 2008 00:28 |
Sorry folks, but I think you are totally wrong. Sure, people with multiple matches are going to be good, but sometimes you get one where the person has only just started out researching that line and hasn't got any further. They are worth contacting. Or the branch of their family is a bit remote - I had one this week, her Hague ancestor is the brother of my Hague Ancester so I am interested, but he is only the brother in law of hers, so she hasn't researched any further. But we are definitely connected, and will keep it on one side until either of us goes further up that route. We aren't inclined to do so at the moment, too keen on direct people, but in the future, who knows? |
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Kate | Report | 8 Aug 2008 22:09 |
Just remembered about this thread - as Simon mentioned, one of my other tactics is to examine the amount of hot matches with the other person. If, say, they have the wife of my great-uncle Harold in their tree but not Harold himself, that suggests to me that they are exploring the family of Harold's wife (and that she may possibly be a tenuous connection in their tree at that). |
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Merlin38 | Report | 8 Aug 2008 17:02 |
The only ones I seem to get now are for leaves hanging onto a very small twig - for example the person's grandfather's sister's great grand daughter married a great great uncle. |
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Frances | Report | 8 Aug 2008 16:28 |
must be something wrong with my lot i dont get any at all now |
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Simon | Report | 8 Aug 2008 16:22 |
kate and whippet are spot on. as your tree grows you get inudated with hot matches with 1 or 2 names and sometimes places are totally misleading. |
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Kate | Report | 8 Aug 2008 14:58 |
I think the truth is, the Hot Matches often aren't very "hot" at all. I've started going through mine and ignoring ones with just one or two matching relatives that are distant connections to me. |
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MrTangerineMan | Report | 8 Aug 2008 14:44 |
Sorry to bring this up again but still confused. Genes Reunited gave me several Hot Matches, 3 of which were excellent having 5 or more same names DOB and POB as mine. When I have contacted these users and/or viewed their trees there is nothing to match at all. I could be quite cynical in thinking that GR wanted me to pay the joining up fee to contact these people but that surely couldn't be the case. |