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Hot Matches!

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Caron

Caron Report 17 Sep 2007 20:55

well glad I'm not the only one! and yes when mailing people always give p.o.b and parents/siblings....guess I'll just have to wait and see!

julia of sussex

julia of sussex Report 17 Sep 2007 18:52

i got my hotmatches and spent hours emailing them all and most of the time i never get a reply

and no-one has ever emailed me regarding my hotmatches i must be linked to some one ( sob sob )

julia

SRW

SRW Report 17 Sep 2007 18:40

I haven't had e-mails about hot matches for over 6 months. I get other e-mails from GR about various things, but not matches. I reported it to GR but they said I must have altered something. I haven't!

Sandy

Huia

Huia Report 17 Sep 2007 11:11

I have not changed anything Claire, but I will check anyway. The last notification I had was on 25 Aug. and they are supposed to come through every 14 days, or so they say. I presumed they had been too busy playing around with alterations to deal with hot matches, so I was surprised to find all the new ones.
Off to check for any changes before I head to bed.
Huia in New Zealand.

Huia

Huia Report 17 Sep 2007 10:07

Can somebody please tell me if GR has stopped notifying us when hot matches are added? I decided to go through mine today and found loads of new ones, but have not had an email to tell me they are there. Does this mean I need to check regularly?
Huia.

HeadStone

HeadStone Report 16 Sep 2007 23:17

Hi,
I don't always get a reply through hot matches on the first attempt, but I definitely do not use GR short reply. I always offer some information to establish a link even if it's as simple as "were the parents, was his wife, were the children named". Probably about 75% finally reply but this may be after 2 or 3 requests sent. The last 25% are probably ex GR members whose trees (names in) seem to stay in the GR database.
Bye
Paul

Peter

Peter Report 16 Sep 2007 22:49

Caron,

Do your names have places of birth? Many people seem to omit these. I certainly never contact anyone who has not included the pob as the name is likely to be wrong; even if it is the right person it seems that the poster has only a name to go on.

Peter

Val :~)   from West Wirral

Val :~) from West Wirral Report 16 Sep 2007 21:43

Caron I am so glad you mentioned never getting a request for information through Hot matches!!
I thought I was doing something wrong too

Will have to wait and maybe one day I will get a suprise

lol Val

Huia

Huia Report 16 Sep 2007 20:49

Perhaps the others are not paying members, so they cannot contact you.

Caron

Caron Report 16 Sep 2007 20:09

I've just been sifting through my hot matches and contacting various possibles, however after 6 months of this I can't help but notice that although I do get replies from my email I've never recieved mail from other people asking me about matches...am I missing something...