Genealogy Chat

I got mine on Sunday!!! I have every Wood in the world, this time. As 'my' Wood is a married-in, on a remote branch, I may very well delete HIM, instead of deleting 20 pages of Not Matches. Olde Crone

I think they come in on different days for different people, I havent had any yet for this fortnight.

It sepends on when you subscribed. I think that you get them every two weeks - so if you subscribed on a Sunday you get them on a Sunday, Monday monday, etc.

I don't know if you know but there is another part of Genes where you can get all your matches and contact people. I don't know how I dropped on it but I can't find a way of doing it from Genes pages. it is http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/genesreunited.asp?WCI=YourNames I have done better off this than I have with Hot Matches though I have had good contacts from that to.

Christine Do you mean SEARCH FAMILY TREES? This is what I usually use - its on the green panel to the left of this, under the quivering cherries! Olde Crone

On a positive note I have found 3 genuine 'matches' and I was quite happy to look through them until... I acquired a John JONES in my tree about 3 months ago! Now about 3/4 of my hot matches are Jones's. I've re-typed in the name now in my tree as J*O*H*N Jones hoping that I'll confuse the system and not get as many ... I'll report back if this works. Annette

what a brill idea i have a Mary Clarke that takes up about 3 pages, Think I will re name her now Sue

Sorry did not read reply til this morning and realised genes had not copied all the web page into my message. I will type it instead of coppying !!!! Hold on when I put in the web page it looks right bu when I go and look at the message its not there so I will put it on different lines but it is all one web site. Sorry no matter how I do it it won't show all the web page don't know why !!!!!! (In address bar write) www.genesreunited.co.uk (Then (write) /genesrunited.asp (Then write) ?WCI=YourNames That took some doing Ignore the words in brackets an write the rest into the address bar. This was the only way I could get it to show the website. Thats the web page and you should get a list of all the names in your tree and how many of the same name on the site. Against each name you get the option of viewing your names or viewing entire site. I have been viewing entire site and have sent messages to anyone who has a matching name in the same area. I always put at the end of my email to people 'I would appreciate a reply if this corresponds with your information or not' I do this on hot matches as well and find I get a lot more replies. Through doing this I have found a cousin of my Husband and a very possible match on my family that will give me over 100 relatives of one Surname. Plus a lot more very possible matches. Hope this helps Christine

Ok so got 5 pages of hotmatches today and plodded through them. Found 5 cousins I didnt know about and their families! Can't believe I ever turned them off!

Isn't that tree matches which you can click on to on left handside? just below cherries Jeanette

I've got a Jones in my tree, I've spelt it Jonesx to stop the thousands of hot matches coming through. When I started I had a couple of really good hot matches from people who were generous enough to share their information with me. It really helped me get started. So now I always go through them and follow up potential matches. However, what I don't understand is that no-one has ever sent me a query about a potential hot match. Why not? Krissie from the Netherlands