Genealogy Chat

No, sorry, they come from Bedminster where there were loads and loads of Vowleses. Kate.

Kate, Your Vowles's don't come from Wraxall do they?? Found loads when I was looking for my Tidcombes!! Maggie

Thanks F.C. Strangely enough, after my comment yesterday I received several new replies today so at least have a few more that are checked. Unfortunately no matches though. I'm waiting for the end of the alphabet too!!

I've got the reply: Thanks for your email. Hot matches looks at each individual in your tree, then it goes through the database and brings back to first 100 matches with these people. This page will refresh every 14 days bringing you the next 100 matches. . As you have a large tree then it is more than likely that the first 100 matches will only equal the first letter of the alphabet. We set the limit to 100 matches as any more can be quite overwhelming. I hope this helps. Regards Erica So it could be a long long time till they get to my Vidgens and Vowleses! Kate.

You are so lucky I am still only at the letter B - please get me past this - my main surnames at at the end of the alphabet. Personally I have given up checking them - out of 6 new pages - none of them were a match and those that were I have already made contact with.

Hi Margaret, They are not actually 'NEW' matches, they are just new to Genes because they haven't given you the matches before. I got one this time that I've been in touch with for over a year. I'm sure some of them are not members any more but untill Genes lets us know if a member is paid up or not we'll be left wondering. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to put current member by the name so we know they are still around.

I think that New Hot Match means newly found by GR, not recent entry to the board. That is certainly the case for mine.

Melissa I tried that but they still don't 'go away'! I sorted through pages of Hot Matches and tried to contact a number of possibles but had only a couple of replies. It only takes a minute to say 'sorry, no match', why don't people bother? Since it said they were all new matches I would have to assume they are still members. Very frustrating!

Carole and other with same prob. put a tick in the far left box ( i do whole page or it takes for ever), then scroll down and click save. And their gone. p.s. had 26, thanks Jade. Mel.

I've sent an email to GR asking if they are working on sorting the hot matches system out so it works properly, and I will let you know when I get the reply. Kate. (sick of all those William and Thomas Browns born in Scotland - mine were born in London).

Whenever I try to discard a match (which no doubt will be 99% of all my so called hotmatches) it takes me back to the home page, but the match is still there. I've resorted to putting them in my ignore list and I'm at the point now where I won;t bother to look at the hotmatches again. I'll search the surname lists myself. Carole

Have already discarded quite a lot of '?? ??' matches - but the really frustrating one is Wendy who shares 11 of my ancestors!! Have emailed her twice without reply - she is my hottest match and so far, no contact!!

CHRIS - gulp, hadnt thought of that one!

My 'Hotmatches' rarely match but I keep getting a match on my Read ancestors and I know this is definintely so. I have emailed the lady a couple of times but without any success and I would so like to hear from her to clear up one or two things. I'd be quite happy not to have her pass on her information should she so wish but I would like to compare notes so to speak so PLEASE PLEASE Janet if you see this PLEASE PLEASE contact me I'm getting really desperate to hear from you, and if I have anything of use to you you are more than welcome. Grace

And I await with bated breath..... Unknown :(((( Any guesses as to how many 'Hot Matches' we all get when that hits the matches??? Chris

I got 5 very hot matches today..............yes 5. Only thing was they were they are already my contacts!!!! What is the point in giving me hot matches that they already know I'm in touch with??????

Pollyanna here. My hot matches have arrived. Okay, they don't actually contain anyone that I want to contact and haven't contacted already, but they are starting to match my Skillings. It is disconcerting that they rearrange the list each time I save it, while one contact originally showed as two, then merged. But hey, eventually I'll have a list of my contacts, just sorted in a different order. Why must they ALL be called David, though?

another 4 pages of hot matches.....going to delete my gt gt grandma who had the uninspiring name Jane Jones - she makes up 2 pages herself each time! And grandma on other side had surname Miller - thats another page and a half.... still, mustn't grumble - found 2 where name and dates match (no place given) so who knows? netti ps what is the point of the 'discard this match' click?

I haven't had any hot matches yet. But dozens of some names which are correct but mine all come from London and I get sent those from Wales!!

I have had one success with hot matches so far, made contact with descendants of my great grans sister. George