Genealogy Chat

I do go through mine and have made some good contacts ,BUT i have often thought if they are on my Hot Matches surely Mine must come up on theirs!! I suppose maybe some do but they arent picked up as some peeps dont look at Hot Matches OR maybe have elected not to receive them.

hi just wanted to say that the Hot Matches at gr have been successfull for me and have made contacts through them.
lorraine

I do check them although since adding a "Smith" most of my pages are Smiths and just the odd one that I'm really interested in.

I have had enquiries as well as my making contact and there have been a few quite good ones so think it's worthwhile if you have the time.

I have received some wonderful info through hot matches- it opened some lines for me I thought were totally dead. I wont go into details here but there are some amazing ppl here, esp if you are new.

I alawys look at my matches and reply if they match

Best regards

Susan

Thanks for all that guys and gals

That's what I was on about before Shirley. Do think people could be missing out on finding info by not checking them.

And Elizabeth I'm exactly the same! Get quite excited when the new ones come through every 2 weeks, go through them and mail everyone there and then. It's even better when I get a reply, even if it's just to say "sorry no match". Alot of mine do tend to me people that have married into the family, but I still think you can valauble information from them that you might not already have.

By biggest success has been with Jeff. Me and Jeff had 45 matches in our tree and I mailed him back in September, he only got back to me in November, but it was worth the wait. He works out as a 5th cousin who lives in Utah, USA (one member of the Rhead side moved to Utah in 1856). We've swapped lots of infromation, Jeff sent me 4 pages of history on the relative that moved to Utah, which took me 2 hours to update my tree with. And I sent him various certificates I had found, including the marriage certificate of his grandparents, which his mum had never seen.

Sorry to harp on, but I do like sharing success stories :D

Natasha, it's so good to hear success stories like yours - much better than any negative comments. I have one relative I need the correct story for and I would plough through 100 pages of Hot Matches if it meant I would hit the nail on the head. I'm really glad for you.

That's amazing dee! It's so interesting to find out about relatives that live so far away, how they got there and how their lives are different.

I'm also waiting to hear back from a potential relative in Australia as well! So fingers crossed!

Hi When i first started researching with genes I used to get hot matches every month and then my husband uploaded some infomation from another family tree. At this point we stopped getting them. I contacted genes who gave me the spiel but never did any thing about it.

So for any one who wants to stop getting hot matches just upload from another site. I have to say, I think they probably did me a favour as it is very easy to generate you own Hot Matches, as you know the names and locations to look for and whether they really are a match!!

Sandra