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Geoffrey | Report | 8 Nov 2014 15:17 |
What is the reason that I receive emails advising of Hot Matches and when I investigate none of the names or dates correspond? |
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Graham | Report | 8 Nov 2014 15:23 |
Welcome to the boards Geoffrey. |
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Elizabeth2469049 | Report | 8 Nov 2014 16:38 |
It really shouldn't be called "Hot Matches" - just possible connections. One of the difficult factors is "place of birth" as this can be entered accurately but quite differently! depending on the source being the place of registration, the place of birth, the address of the parents, the place of baptism, the census. (Ancestry picks up and lists all possible and almost impossible connections - and sometimes this can run to thousands of references which you have to be very very keen to rummage through!) It changed with GR responding to what I think were unreasonable complaints about different birthplaces, and since then it has been very random - I only get them very occasionally and if that Hot I usually have them already. |
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Geoffrey | Report | 8 Nov 2014 23:47 |
Thanks for your replies, I am not very active in my research at present. From a year or so ago GR was a very useful tool but it seems to have deteriorated to a major degree so much that I am very tempted to cancel my subscription. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 9 Nov 2014 00:32 |
Hi Geoffrey |
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