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WOT Matches!
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KiwiChris | Report | 31 Dec 2006 00:10 |
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Be very careful OC, I just got a match with Living Unknown, and I swear that they are not on my tree!! Christine in NZ |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 30 Dec 2006 23:51 |
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Margaret I must say that that aspect of this site rather startled me when I first joined - so many people looking for LIVING relatives. I had rather expected everyone to be looking for dead relatives, like me! The most recent birth date on my tree is 50 odd years ago and I cannot understand why I get matches for people born in 1980! OC |
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Maggie 'O the Mainland | Report | 30 Dec 2006 22:36 |
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Ah yes it does my heart good to hear the other moans and groans, and I mean that in a nice way cos it make me giggle to see I am not the only one and they say laughter is the best medicine don't they. It would be nice if they could iron out some of the wrinkles for2007. I have some unkowns in my tree and when they turn up on hot matches it really does my head in and YES the automatic returns of THIS IS NOT MY RELATIVE really hack me off too. I'd like to give them ***** relative. It just seems hurtful somehow or am I just too soft. Happy 2007 everyone. Maria |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 30 Dec 2006 22:26 |
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Peter LOL, that is exactly what I did today! Also contacted five very unlikely matchers with a cringing message about clutching at straws and apologising for wasting their time - three have already replied with that bucket of cold water masquerading as a reply 'This is not my relative'. And yes, I WOULD miss having a good old moan about them you're right. OC |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 30 Dec 2006 22:18 |
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OC, think about it. Do you really want to forgo the excitement of going through your 'Hot Matches' every couple of weeks We can just hear you now No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; YES.....!!!!! Bet the ***** hasn't researched it properly though.....!!!!! No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; No, bin; Best wishes and a Happy New Year |
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Ann | Report | 30 Dec 2006 21:41 |
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I've done pretty well out of hot matches so I should not complain but It is irritating when its a common name and there is no place of birth listed. |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 30 Dec 2006 21:02 |
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It wont matter because I do not seem able to spell Unknown Unknown properly, so they will all appear on my tree as Unkown Unjkown, lol. Or maybe I could make up some names? Festinius Polecrafter born 1833 in Ulan Bator shouldnt attract too many matches. OC |
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Jacqueline | Report | 30 Dec 2006 20:51 |
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Blimey - then we'd all have thousands of hot matches and get fed up all over again... Jacquie |
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Krissie | Report | 30 Dec 2006 20:47 |
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What if other people also have Unknown Unknown's on their tree?? |
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Jacqueline | Report | 30 Dec 2006 20:46 |
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And when you do get a really, really HOT match - they don't respond to your VERY polite email, so become very COLD(hearted) matches. Sob... Jacquie |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 30 Dec 2006 20:06 |
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I am planning an updated tree, which will only contain the names of my three brickwalls, who will be connected to each other by Unknown Unknowns. That way I should only attract contact for the three people on my tree who I so desperately WANT to be hot matched with someone else on this planet. OC |
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InspectorGreenPen | Report | 30 Dec 2006 17:21 |
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Well I have just made six new connections today so it cant be all that bad Carol, some new members don't realise that Hot Matches are automatic and think that it is you initiating the contact, so think it is polite to reply. I had a couple a few months ago and wondered what was going on until the penny dropped. |
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Carol | Report | 30 Dec 2006 17:11 |
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next chapter, this afternoon i have received mail from 2 members who tell me they don't think we have a match. i haven't even contacted them so is genes doing the contacting for me now. |
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Julie | Report | 30 Dec 2006 15:18 |
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OC Sorry but i couldn't help but laugh Julie F |
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Carol | Report | 30 Dec 2006 15:00 |
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i have just received my hot matches and they are all ' NEW ' i might turn them off too because its doing my head in. |
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Her Indoors | Report | 30 Dec 2006 14:43 |
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I turned off NOT Matches some time ago, and I bear the loss with fortitude ... |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 30 Dec 2006 14:29 |
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Very excited to get a hot match with 19 names. Open it to find the SAME name entered 19 times - and it isnt even a name I have in my tree! LOL. OC |
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