Genealogy Chat

Kate It wasn't Melbourne. They had a place name and so did I, they weren't even similar. Margaret

Margaret, I do agree with you in general, but just thought I would mention that there is a Melbourne in Derbyshire and one in Australia, also, sometimes people tracing an Aussie line may not know which ancestor is the one who emigrated there, so they may assume that the person at the top of their tree was born in Australia until they find out for sure that he / she was born in England. (GR's tree doesn't allow you to put that country of birth is unknown, so you have to choose one.) Kate.

Just realised the above could be taken the wrong way, I'm not referring to anyone who has replied to this thread, but the comments they have made about others being sarcastic to them.

Nothing really to do with the subject but reading through the replies, and on other threads as well, I am amazed at how many people leave sarcastic comments. Why? I've had a couple myself. Why bother to reply and be nasty. We've had a laugh over the original subject and some really daft suggestions and that's great but when someone takes the trouble to reply to you and be nasty I just wonder what their problem is. We're all doing this because it's absorbing and we enjoy it so the nasty and sarcastic ones BUTTON IT.

Jenny I've stopped getting them. You can choose not to have them in your account details. I like you was fed up of A's and B's. Most of them were for people who had only married into my names. I split my husband's tree from mine so that we had two smaller trees. Didn't make any difference. I still contacts because others get hot matches for my names. Margaret

Margaret maybe people think we actually add them to hot matches ourselves, I think they are a waste of time anyway because I am still on As and Bs. jenny

Jenny I've had that comment many times. One was very sarcastic, telling me that his relative lived absolutlely miles away from mine. When I replied telling him that I hadn't even contacted him, he insisted I had. Then there are the people who think they must contact each and everyone in their Hot Matches.

Oh dear Margaret, i lived all my life in Derbyshire, before moving to Australia. So we must be related, now if i send you all my family information, can you tell me how? LOL Sylvia

someone wrote to me and said this is not my relative so I wrote back and said I dont remember contacting you? and she replied back and said well you were in my hot matches. jenny

Kimberley One The option to not show anyone in your tree less than 120 years old only works when someone views your actual tree. They still show up in hot matches and searches. Two I am talking about ridiculous questions about connections when the people being inquired about aren't even born in the same continent. I said I feel like being sarcastic, not that I was. But, when you point out that yours were born nowhere near to where their person was they still want to view your tree to check. This site is about genuine connections which I'm all for, not made up ones. Margaret

I am one of these guilty parties. But, having said that I have found several cousins which are definites. If like some of us you start with very limited info and have a degree of common sense then you hope that you are going to meet helpful understanding people along the way.

Hi O C Can I please boast I have 4 Grandpa's Sheila

Aunt Fanny!!!????......... Could it be she was from...........nah! spose not! lol

Right children having had a darn good laugh I'm off to bed but just remember, be polite to the pain in the *** in the checkout queue it may be your long lost Aunt Fanny!!!

I always check when I get my Hot Matches. Before I send an email. If mine was born in Surbiton and theirs was born in Australia I don't bother to waste my or anyone else's time by making contact. It would appear that a lot of people do not do likewise. It can be very annoying.

Er - Kimberley, I DON'T have anyone, except me, on my tree, born in the last 100 years. Still didnt stop the above daftness. and I don't get one or two, I get DOZENS, of fishing emails. I reply politely to them all, but have to grind my teeth with some of them. OC

who got out the wrong side of bed this morning? So what if you get a couple of emails?!! I am happy to reply to all of them......thats why I joined the site!! and I have made some great friends AND found connections when I really didnt think we had one. Choose the option not to show relatives in the last 100 years and this will cut down your emails!!

I'm blond......will that do....

Jim I had TWO Grampas - so you must be one of them! OC

None of mine have EVER lived in Derbyshire so we MUST be related.