Genealogy Chat

I've had one hot match which got me back to the 1600s for the first time, if it's correct. But the kind lady who let me see her tree hasn't replied to tell me where she found her info. If it's parish records, YAY!, But IGI....! Sue (in NZ)

They only seem to send me Hotmatches to my William and Elizabeth Smith (or was it that I gave up after deleting about 40 Smith hot matches 'cos they didn't come from Scotland) UPDATE I take it all back, I've just looked at my hotmatches and I think I have a proper one. What do you reckon the likelihood of someone having not only Elizabeth Smith, John Cochrane, Caroline Lamont and two William Lamont's but all with correct years?

Oh I am getting so frustrated with these hot matches. In theory, it is a really good idea. And I can even cope with the ones who have a totally different place of birth - after all, we know how definitions of place of birth can alter on the censuses, sometimes the name of a village, sometimes the nearest town, so I can see that matching the place of birth exactly would rule out a lot of what might be useful matches. But please, oh please, GR, could you get past the letter C? I do so want to see if there are any matches for the E's and H's - it's not so very far away. And when I have discarded a match, I don't want it to pop up again next time, grinning evilly at me. Oh and yes, please could hot matches learn to count. I am particularly interested in people who have more than one name that matches with mine - obviously a much greater chance of a connection if more than one name matches. So why does hot matches tell me someone has 3 matches, and then show me a whole page of them (I knew about them anyway), or worse still, say only 1 match, and then proceed to present me with 4! I give in. I am going to amble off and look for a plate of thistles. Tina (shuffles away, shoulders slumped)

At the moment I do not have my tree on here but I got sent a hotmatch message for my own name. I was born in Surrey and this other person somewhere in the north of England. I am pretty certain that in my account details that I have requested no messages for hotmatches. Maureen Update Just checked my account details and I am right in that I have 'NO' ticked for notification of hotmatches.

No Brenda, not one rotten match in 5 pages.

It may be hot match day for you, but it isn't for me :-( Has GR abandoned the far more useful Name Summary notification? I used to get it every fortnight and it's much easier to navigate than the onsite Name Summary as it ignores all names with no new entries.

Yes, guys and girls, its hotmatch day and I have trawled through 5 more pages of Ann Unknowns interspersed with people who yes do have a name I have but theres were born some 500 miles away. Oh please, GR get this streamlined.