Genealogy Chat

Hi OC, Daft, isn't it? What potentially, could be a very useful tool, is just riciculously useLESS. As I said above, it has given me over 1,000 matches for a dead person, who's name wasn't even Taylor, at the time! Sheesh! Debs

They keep telling me that my mysterious James Holden matches with 4,328 entries in various censuses. I am so tempted to email them and say - yes, I know, I have already looked at every one of those entries. OC

Hi Reggie, Thanks for your reply. Thought as much! (a gimmick to part with more money) It can't be that difficult to incoporate the name changes. Ancestry have managed it, when using the search facility via FTM. Debbie

As with almost everything else they've added, it's a stupid gimmick, with which they hope to trap unwary newbies. It's a ploy to get people to buy GR units.......... Reg

Can someone please tell me the point of all the new-fangled gizmo’s that GenesR are insisting on puting on the tree software? I refer specifically to ‘matches’ in the various census. These are about as useful as ‘Hot Matches’ (roll’s eyes!) I have just been in to my tree, to edit some info. (Elizabeth Taylor, specifically, bn 1782, marr 1800, died 1844) Genes search facility is telling me that I have 300 matches in 1841, 300 in 1851, 300 in 1861, 300 in 1871 and 211 in 1891!!!! (Don’t know what happed in 1881) That’s quite remarkable, as the lady died in 1844!! Even if she had lived a lot longer, as she married in 1800, her name was never Taylor, in any census! What is the point of this? If they are going to have a search facility, it has to be able to pick up the change in name, when women marry, and pick up the death date, when people die! Interested to hear other’s views on this. Sorry, rant over :)) Debbie

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