Genealogy Chat

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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