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HOT MATCHES ARE A JOKE AND SHOULD BE SCRAPPED
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babs123 | Report | 9 Jan 2006 00:26 |
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You are absolutely right Marjorie...... sorry, OC. 'a step in the right direction ' and 'thankful' Maurice? It hasn't been thought thro at all. How people are supporting this ridiculous system, to me, beggars belief. Any beginner on a database could set a filter system to stop me getting 'unknowns' or W****** Adams b 1879 Ipswich matching with one born in Australia!! and I don't know THAT til I've opened the darn thing!! And like other people have suggested, ' put the name of the 'hot match' instead of the contact and that would let us delete all the obviously useless ones immediately without the fag of opening each one in hope.' 'incorporate a facility for you to tick if you don't want to be informed of matches on certain surnames'. Kat (can't face opening another hotmatch til sorted) |
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Maurice | Report | 9 Jan 2006 00:57 |
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I did not mean to fire bullets at you personally - it is just that often people are quick to criticise but ,content to sit back and do nothing. You have by virtue of your input at least suggested a real option for GR to consider. Who knows they may even copy your ideas Olde Crone. Maurice |
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BrianW | Report | 9 Jan 2006 07:16 |
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The idea is sound and I have had a few useful contacts from them. However, the exclusion of place of birth in the criteria for selection creates too many false matches. Part of that problem is the uploading of gedcoms when the place of birth comes up on GR as blank. It looks as if the problem may be being addressed by the boxes on new entries to select Country, County and Town. Once these are universal a more precise match will be possible. If you've got more than a hundred or so names in your tree then doing an inividual search on each one on a regular basis is a non-starter. |
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Jean | Report | 9 Jan 2006 23:30 |
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Wish GR would adopt some of your suggestions. Today I have dozens of Smiths and Jones, none of them mine. If I tell GR that ALL of my Smiths were born in Sussex and NONE of my Jones come from Wales do you think they could something about that ? LOL Jean |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 9 Jan 2006 23:37 |
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Have just been reduced to fizzing fury - a VERY PROMISING Hot Match, for a change, actually got two related names, right age place etc. I excitedly emailed the tree holder and then went back to see if she had any more. I then discovered the FULL names of my two men - nothing to do with me AT AL because the middle names are completely wrong.. So, that was three manoevres to discover a mis-match, instead of the usual two! It gets worse. GRRRRR Olde Crone |
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Annette | Report | 10 Jan 2006 00:03 |
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It must take time to check through the Hot Matches when you receive quite a few - I only get on average about 5 per month - but I can't resist checking them just in case. I've had one definate link confirmed, one possible link and another one which looks very promising. For the people who really don't want to receive them - one possibility would be to ask the Genes Reunited Team for the choice to opt out of the Hot Match system. I think its a good idea in principle - maybe just needs a bit of fine tuning, if not just for those with the Smith's, Jones's etc... Annette |
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