General Chat

Top tip - using the Genes Reunited community

Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

  • The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
  • You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
  • And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
  • The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

Boards

Quick Search

Single word search

Tools

Findmypast DNA Banner

Icons

  • New posts
  • No new posts
  • Thread closed
  • Stickied, new posts
  • Stickied, no new posts

Site Management

Login to Add Reply Watch This
ProfilePosted byOptionsPost Date

Geoffrey

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?

Researching:
Williams Buckinghamshire, Norman Oxfordshire

Graham

Graham Report 8 Nov 2014 15:23

Welcome to the boards Geoffrey.

This is a common problem, that has been going on for some months. GR are aware of the problem. But it seems they no longer have anybody capable of sorting it.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1346422

Elizabeth2469049

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.

Researching:
Dominy & Croom in Dorset, Rutherford & McElhatton in Northumberland. Dendy and Thorp

Geoffrey

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.

Researching:
Williams Buckinghamshire, Norman Oxfordshire

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 9 Nov 2014 00:32

Hi Geoffrey


There's no point in asking questions of GR on these Boards ............................


they rarely read the threads, and even more rarely respond!


It's only other members who really read and help out on them :-)




If you want to contact GR, use the following email address ..................


[email protected]



and see if you get a sane response ;-)

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.