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Susan

Susan Report 11 Aug 2011 04:07

Are GR doing hotmatches anymore ?.

Kense

Kense Report 11 Aug 2011 07:43

There is lots of discussion about it here.
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/suggestions/thread/1267953

Now they have changed it to take account of place of birth there are only a small number of matches each time. It also appears that they may not be running the match software while the present troubles are being sorted.

Susan

Susan Report 11 Aug 2011 10:24

ok thankyou hun xxx

Flick

Flick Report 11 Aug 2011 10:37

In the meantime, using 'search trees' is a good way to look for matches............

Jenpen

Jenpen Report 14 Aug 2011 14:32

I agree that 'search trees ' is a good way to find connections. So is 'tree matches' in the boxes on family tree. But I still miss having 'hot matches'. They produced a lot of names that were unconnected, but there was always something interesting. The most interesting hot matches to me were always those who had more than one name in common, and other routes do not show this information. I was happy with 'hot matches' as they were, without place of birth being tsken account of. I could always discard those I did not want. I am also uninterested in 'super hot matches' All these so called improvements have taken away a section I enjoyed.
Jenny

Researching:
Tucker Hammond Lawson (Malpas)

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 14 Aug 2011 14:41

Jenny,

Unfortunately (or not, depending on your point of view) there was an ongoing lobby from a band of regular members who objected to HotMatches not matching POB. and giving them what they unkindly termed 'NotMatches' In the end, GR gave way and decided to add POB to the search criteria.

End result - Hotmatches are now few and far between and, worst still, some could well be discarded by the checking algorithm where a human checker would be able to make the connection easily.

I'm like you, and was happy with them the way they were and having worked with matching programs at a professional level in the FS industry am not surprised in the least they way it has turned out.