Genealogy Chat

Hi All, I find it fascinating to read posts on Hot Matches, as they drive me so crazy. I cannot understand how some people get more matches than me. I regularly get 4 pages, no more, no less. However, I have a John Adams, John Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson & John Brown in my tree & in 1 whole year, I have never Hot matches for any other names, and never have one of these been born in the same country as mine. I have tried discarding matches.....taken note of names before discarding & sure thing, next lot were exactly the same. I tried, 'ignore', on the assumption that this would stop these ones showing, but no....next time they are there again. I now have 27 pages of names in my ignored matches, all showing 15 matches & if I click on any one of them, the 15 are all the same person!! I emailed GR about this and their response was that Hot Matches picks up just the first 200 matches. Maybe they could rotate that to the 2nd, 3rd etc 200 and then they may, just may be of some use. I would love to get down to the W names which are my brickwalls. In the meantime, I will just ignore them all completely. I am sure that if the do improve the system, then I will see something about it on the board. Blessing. Lyn

While I agree to some of what is said about the hot matches especially the not able to delete once and for all the ones you don't want. I'd like to be able to organise the ones I do want. Not everyone knows the county of their relatives, but a county match would be at least of some use. While I know many of you would prefer to recieve the hot matches from those that have more than one match there are many people just starting their trees and research and that one match might open a floodgate. I know I recently found a single match to be a hit, giving me my dads second cousin and my third. Gypsyjoe

Hi everyone, To all those people who do not want to receive HOT MATCHES, just go to your account details, and you are given the choice wether or not you want them sent you, how easy peasy. Ben.

I agree - i think the way forward is for the G.R team to at least get the County a match, this would cut a lot of the cold matches out and save heaps of time. I confess i do look forward to receiving the matches, i have 370 people in my tree, and do receive 'hot matches' from all kinds of different countys that dont match. Im sure the G.R team can change there search engine appropriately.

HOT MATCHES (my view!) Some matches are very hot but the majority are very COLD! I wouldn't like to see hot matches removed, but definately GR needs to think about improving it, for the clients benefit!! I have been a registered member of GR for 3yrs & have now increased my tree to 2022 people.(with the help from lots of lovely members on this site). I download from GR regularly (just to ensure my tree remains safely kept elsewhere) but have only UPLOADED my tree to GR only once or twice. The current fortnightly dispatch of hot matches- sent me 6 more pages to view . I have 42 pages of Ignored hot matches (which cannot be DELETED, only ignored!) So I ask why am I still only getting names up to the letter B??? answer---because GR only upload the first 200 matches!!! What about giving us the clients an option each month to choose which letter of the alphabet we would like hot matches to search for!!! ????? I also don't like the way the page reverts page to P1 when you tick the ignore/delete box. Karenx

I did an interesting little exercise last night. Someone asked how many pages of ignored matches I have and I went to look. I have 99 pages of ignored matches. Because I have never looked at my ignored matches before, I did not realise that they are rankedby number of matches, as they are when you get them, but when you 'ignore' them, they accumulate to the Hot Matcher (am I making sense?) So, my top Hot Matcher on my ignored matches, had 101 matches to names in my tree - I opened it, to see....the same name, 101 times! Pretty useful, eh? OC

I rarely look at my Hot Matches - mainly because it involves too much clicking. In my opinion, there is too much clicking on all of GenesReU. As someone previously mentioned, being taken back to the first page, be it in Hot Matches or messages, is a real pain and time consuming - and doesnt it also slow down the site?

I have just gone through another 5 pages of hot matches, mostly for the same person from all corners of Britain, without there being one mildy tepid match to show for my efforts..............no sooner had I finished, when I received a contact from someone hoping they had a match. The person concerned went into quite a bit of detail as to the difficulties they were having trying to locate a certain family member, and I really felt for them. It transpired that not only could I not be of any help to this person, but, the name he was after DID NOT EXIST IN MY TREE!!!! Jen

Hot Matches? What are they? I had about 3 pages when they were first introduced. Deleted them all as none were relevant and have not had any more since. I thought the service had already been removed but they had forgoten to remove the link.

I have to say that I have had quite a few matches. granted they are not in the direct line but all have been interesting, especially those in my husband's tree. i would not like them to suspend the service. i usually get 4 or 5 pages. strangely Merry, I have Allens in my tree and have had very few matches. I quite like trawling through them, and there is always the anticipation that one day there will be the important one. Ann Glos