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J.C doesn't work for me I have in my tree specific town, county and N. Ireland for my ancestors and I keep getting, especially the Hill's in my tree, on "Hot matches" with the surname and forename along with diverse places of birth in Scotland, England, Australia and USA showing up. I guess GR has a poor filtering system to arrive at hot matches. In another case I found a cousin, in 2007, who was looking for blood relatives, that I didn't know existed. She has not been on GR since, however in my "Hot matches" 2 months ago lo and behold her "match" now appears. Great database management!!!!!

Robert

Robert -- it doesn't work for me either! GR has *no* filtering system for birthplace. Which isn't unreasonable, given that some people put any old thing in their tree, just as their ancestors did on the censuses.

What I meant was that if someone at least puts "Staffordshire", and I know my Mary Hill was born in Jersey (although someone might think it was Cornwall) and lived in Lancashire and died in Cheshire, which she was and did, I can delete the Staffordshire one from my hot matches w/o concern.

If the hot match just says Mary Hill, 1843, and gives no place of birth whatsoever, I have to think: gosh, there is a remote possibiilty it could be my Mary Hill, better send a PM just in case that's a cousin! ;)

And then I get back curt replies saying My Mary Hill was born in Staffordshire, no match. Ta. That's all I wanted to know ...

Oh, and as I understand it, the system just randomly selects hot matches for you every two weeks. There's no assurance that you have the complete list to date. There could be one sitting there for months or years that the system just hasn't got around to telling you about yet. So tree searches are always the best approach!

jax, I thought that deleting someone from Contacts also deleted all their PMs and all yours from their inbox. I wanted to rid myself of someone that way, hoping that by deleting I could ensure she no longer had my contact info, by depriving her of my PMs. It didn't work. She's out of my contact list, but the PMs are all still there.

Will you watch out for that person in future and alert us?

Sounds like someone who enjoy a lovely slice of what FBG so delightfully calls my culinary specialty, tongue pie. ;)

Or listen, why not do what I've been doing? Go to TTF and filter by surname Dennard to get an idea -- you've seen an example I think. I've done it several times now, and it's cathartic.

I randomly check trees and don't rely on the "HM" . Just find them a pain in the area of your tests.

Robert

JC
you are probably right about my message being from a hot match but it was still rude.
Jax
that was also rude of them.
You must be steamin.
Maybe next time they put up a thread give some more help and then edit it because you would be a fool to leave your help there.

I hardly ever look at hot matches these days as too many of them.

Will do JC

As long as she does'nt change her board name easy to spot...uses three christian names

ja...x

Hi all

we're back in Vancouver!

It's raining hard today, and it is soooooo cold ...... we turned the central heating on first thing this morning.

The week went well ...... the weather wasn't too good, we lit the wood stove every day and kept it going all day, it rained most days, and it got cold at night! The fire kept the cabin lovely and cozy! But it was lovely and peaceful.

OH to do quite a few repair jobs to do that we hadn't expected, which means that he didn't manage to get done all that he had planned to do.

A pack rat (officially called a bushy tailed wood rat) had managed to find a spot where he could chew a hole in a wall, and had got into the store room where we keep tools and such like ...... that meant repairing the hole in the wall, cleaning up the mess, pulling everything off all the shelves and checking it all, washing everything down with disinfectant, re-laying some lino, etc etc.

The neighbourhood bear had taken a swipe at one corner of the mosquito netting in one window of the sun porch and ripped it down .......... that meant new screening.

Finally, OH went to retrieve the large wheeled garbage can that we use to collect rainwater from the roof and which had been blown to the bottom of the grassy slope ............ or so we thought!

Nope ............... bear had used it as a plaything. You wouldn't believe the number of holes in that can from his claws!!


We had a good drive back home ........... the sockeye salmon (my favourite salmon) run was huge this year, some reports say it could be the best in almost 100 years. The First Nations are allowed to catch all the salmon they need for their own food and ceremonies, and are also allowed to sell some of what they catch. So yesterday we stopped by one of the reserves where they had set up a Fish Shop, and bought ourselves a lovely 4 lb sockeye salmon caught on Friday. It was already dressed (head and tail off, and guts removed) ............... and cost $15 (or about £7). There was a huge spring salmon ........ must have been about 10 or 12 lbs. They only wanted $25 for that one!

But as I say, sockeye is my favourite!

OH has cut some steaks off it, left a large piece whole, and it's all in the freezer now.

Talked to duaghter earlier, and finally got to hear about their "hurricane" last weekend.

It was actually downgraded to a Tropical Storm by the time it hit Halifax and Dartmouth. She said they got a lot of high winds, but little rain. They had little damage to their house, although they hadn't yet really checked their roof. The power was out for about 22 hours, but they didn't lose any food. The freezers stayed cold. She did throw out a couple of items from the fridge part which were close to their time limit anyway (eg, yoghurt that was a day over time).

There were a lot of limbs broken off trees in the city limits, and a few trees blown over. She said one neighbour up the street was really lucky. They had a big old tree in their front yard, it was blown over but fell very neatly sideways ..... across their lawn and the neighbour's, and missed both houses!



and there is my story!



s
xxx

And a fine one it was!

Had been waiting to hear about the Nova Scotia people, as the storm did hit pretty hard. A day without hydro isn't the end of the world, but it means this wasn't a trifling breeze. What a shame to lose a big tree.

Throw out the yogourt? Why not eat it ... ;)

Blast, I can never remember how to spell yo__t in English.

Nice to see you back sylv hope you had a good time

Just thought I would post my last reply from this person, which is making me wonder where she go her help from as I had posted at least three generations of her family in the early hours of the morning and it had gone before lunch time.

Thank you for your email.

I will take your advice on board regarding asking other people for help in tracing my ancestors. Fortunately, they, (unlike yourself) are willing to help and I have moved on quite a bit since posting my initial message. They have been more than willing to share information and used my personal email address.

Please do not reply to this message - I really do not wish to correspond with you.

ja...x

she's obviously one receiving her messages by crystal ball!!

Can you block her??????????????

Thanks JC


my daughter is almost compulsive about food ............ if it MIGHT be off, she throws it out.


She did learn one lesson .... didn't do it this time, but will remember next time.

When there is a power outage, switch things around in your fridge.

Remove fruit and veggies etc from the veggie drawer, they could even last outside the fridge.

Move perishables to the coldest area of the fridge .......... if you have a top freezer, move perishables up close to the top. If you have a bottom freezer, move them down to the lower shelves, even into the veggie drawers.


Finally, what she did do ................. don't open your fridge door unless it is absolutely essential so that the cold air remains trapped inside.



s
xx

I think she thinks I am related in some way and not sharing my info? As I said before she wanted me to post it again but would not say why the thread had gone. If she had been honest and said sorry I deleted by accident, I would have helped but, she has said she has not recieved my 1st pm advising her to return to her thread and to remove her email.
Anyway she does not want me to contact her, but if she makes comments like that I am going to reply.
I think she has got info from hot matches as there have not been any other posts


ja...x

Hi Everyone

Welcome back all holiday makers - what good stories - from bears to limekilns - wonderful


Had no Internet since 8,00pm Sat night
Pain in bum - but it is back now
Danish lady being operated in Denmark today
Son says very serious.he says and this will be a literal translation from Danish into English ---- ( her yellow orb has broken) so unlikely to retain sight - Poor thing

Doing odds and ends today - so will flit in and out

Renes

Welcome back Sylvia,

We have SO missed you!

Robert has been feeding us in your absence and he has the menu sorted 'till Friday so you can take a few days to 'get yourself sorted' before you resume your duties. (That was thoughtful of him wasn't it??)

Anyway, it sounds like you have had an exciting time - Glad we don't have bears in our garden - I would never leave the house (tee hee).

Just popped in for my 'bacon and eggs' - thank you Robert they were delicious !! - I only had one lot today as I was still a bit full from yesterday !

Will pop back later and help with the washing up !

Dea x

The wanderer has returned!! Welcome back dear friend and what a story you had to tell. I knew you would bring some sanity back onto here.


Ja...x - I've had several similar messages since I started sending out my messages several years ago and it can be really unsettling can't it? Sometimes it's a case of "who are you and why are you sending me a message?" or "don't tell me how things work, I've been a member since Adam was a lad!" Oh yeah, well how come you're replying to a 6 year old post then?


Basically most of it is down to the fact that many folk have not grasped how this site works, and when they are told, they feel stupid and so become defensive. This does not, however, excuse any rudeness but, unfortunately, that is how many people react when they are put in that position.


I've learnt a lot from JC (but don't tell her for fear of halo - itis) about the shortcomings of this site. It has a lot to answer for.

You press on doing what you are very good at and be thankful for all the nice folk who say 'Thank you'. Put the others behind you.


Just going to phone one of my bestest friends but am putting it off slightly. She is quite a bit older than me but we have a lot in common and have been friends for many years. Unfortunately, she is suffering from 'mild depression' but she is certainly not the person she was. I am concerned there is more to it than is said. Her OH let the word 'dementia' slip out the other day and I am sad. So sad.

Cyn

Re responding to old threads - I am sure you do know this but I did not -

I had a posting on one of my old threads - and responded - as you do - (she had a sister she thought to my German aunt )

I said I would pm her my emails address to send her photos and German death certs etc

she asked whats pm and told her (thinking she did not know the abbreviation)

A month passes - and we have emailed quite a bit - and I said one day why have you not put the sisters on your tree yet

She replied What is a TREE - I emailed and said on the GR site ( thinking good grief)

She told me this - she Googled my Aunts name - saw my GR posting - clicked and GR says to see this info - you need to pay 9.95 - which she did

And it opened onto my thread directly - and she wrote her posting

leaving the post bookmarked to get back -

and had then followed my instructions to Messages - and voila - emailed me

She had not seen any other instruction - help - advise - nothing - paid 9.95 and straight on to thread !!!!!!

I am wondering now if all these postings to 6 year old threads etc are coming from internet searches or they are clicking on names on Google and landing up on the boards after paying

No wonder there is confusions !!!!!!


Renes

That's strange Renes,

Whenever I have googled and it has come up with a link to a GR message, I have gone straight to it without paying??

Dea x


AAhh - perhaps 'google' knows I am already a member? - It knows where I live as it tells me my postcode and puts up 'local info' in my searches!!!

Clever isn't it? - But I don't think I like it knowing so much!!

Dea x

Dea


If you take the of the name from any thread you have worked on and Google it - you will find the thread and you can enter back to that thread -

When you click to enter GR it knows from your IP (internet protocol number assigned to your computer) that your are a member - as I understand it

I have asked non members to google my names put on TTF and they can not get in unless they pay - to either respond on thread or pm me - by clicking on my name

I was really pointing out - that people seeking help do not necessarily come to boards via community

So they cannot read any of the Advise postings

Renes

Hi Renes,

Yes, I did realise what you were meaning but it just puzzled me at the time why she had to pay to read the message.

Are you having a nice restful day?

Dea x

Hi Renes, that's interesting about your contact and just shows how crazy this site is at times.

It's been my experience that most of those who reply to old messages are those who have used the filter box at the side, popped in the name they are looking for and found messages from other people with the same name. They then type a reponse in the hope that there is a connection but don't take notice of the date the message was posted.

They tend to be really new to the site and don't realise that their message appears on the public board and are surprised to get a complete stranger giving them advice!

Several are doing 'one-name studies' and I've just replied to one .......look at the following........[this gentleman had replied to several old threads bearing the same name and several helpers had told him that he was unlikely to get a reply. I then sent him a message so that he would see that advice]

Hi Cynthia,
I know we are not related but thought that you might not have the information that I sent you and was offering to give any help that I could I have about 19 trees for the family name so there wes a good chance that I had the information that you wanted.


I'm still slightly confused but have tried my best to point him in the right direction!

Our Janey has made some good suggestions to the management, but whether they will take heed remains to be seen.


Is it wet where you are Dea? It's really miserable here so may cheer myself up by doing the ironing!! :)))