Genealogy Chat

I wish they would leave well alone Sometime times in trying to improve things they actually make matters worse

I used to log on and striaght away new how many different surnames I had on my tree as well as individuals, not now though only how many individuals

I miss that little bit of info

I´ve still had none either, nor is there anything on my homepage to suggest that any have been looked for.

hello

i had some thi week not had any since aprill

hve not had any replies

sally w :-D :-(

Well November and GUESS WHAT STILL waiting I don't think they are doing hot matches any more As I have not had a single one this year

Carol

hello
all i have under the quike seadch is a very noisey advert

thanks sally w :-|

I haven't noticed it until recently so I think it is fairly new. You are probably correct and will only see it appear after you next have any matches.

maybe it depends on when there were last hot matches for a member

Like Sally I cannot see the message either. There is no box on my homepage labelled 'newsfeed'

Sally,

It is on the right hand side of my homepage - the next box below the purple 'Quick Search' It is headed Newsfeed and it says

We found 12 new Hot Matches for you. 19 Sep 2011

Nor me Sally,but then my eyesight´s not what it was

hello igp
please can you tell me where to find the message when i last had hot matches on my home page as i cant see it

thanks sally w :-D

Wisechild, no I don't think so. I still get emails from GR telling me there are some new ones, but I usually delete the email so can't always remember when the last one arrived.

The message on you home page does, however, tell you when you last had some. The fact I had some last month would indicate that the process is being run.

I have quite a few surnames begining with A & B so why I am not getting any through I am not sure if I have understood the new system

That implies that members are not being notified of Hotmatches & we now have to look to see if we have any.
Is that the case?

I notice on my Homepage.

Newsfeed
We found 12 new Hot Matches for you. 19 Sep 2011

The fact that you or other members have added several names to your tree does not automatically mean you will get them hotmatched straight away. As mentioned previously, the system only takes 100 names each time from your tree for matching so if they are not in that list, you won't get matches. Mine seem to go up to the letter 'B'

Still none since last January & I know of at least 3 family members who have put their trees on Genes since then, so should have matched with mine.

Marion

I've has some Carol but none past the letter B......I too have added lots of brances and twigs and nothing pops up on them either :-(

Guess what?

October and still I haven't recieved any hot matches yet this year.

At this rate it will be January and I won't have received any for a whole year

As I have said before I have over a thousand names on my tree with a good hundred added this year and some of my contacts have added from mine and I from theirs so I should have some hot matches at least from them.

Any one out there still waiting for there first batch of hot matches this year?

Carol

Karen,

Many long standing members on here regularly do their own searching for possible contacts, so the fact that HotMatches are not appearing as they should is not really a big issue for us.

I find the best way to search is to use the Surname Summary option, set to added to within the past 14 days. As these are recent additions you can assume the other member is active and more likely to reply if you send them a message.

Alternatively use the name search for those names you are most interested in, filtering by date / location as appropriate. However, you have no way of knowing if the members still visits the site and likely to read your message.

My Hot Matches is working fine right now. Except there are only three matches listed. That is unusual as I used to get about 3 pages of them each time. :-)

Has anyone noticed that when we logged onto genes the number of differant surnames we had on our trees used to come up on the screen but not now I It was interesting to see how many differant surnames we has on our trees Genes used to be great I used to be on every night couldn't wait to log on but now I don't even go on every day now It's a same they should have left it as it was