Genesreunited

[Jean Jeanie]

You know those hot matches that they send you every so often?

If you are like me then you will have been ignoring the ones where there is only 1 hotmatch. I worked on the principle that if there was only one hotmatch then it would be the same name but a completely different family from mine.

Today, having nothing better to do, I trawled through 52 pages of names, where there was only 1 hotmatch.

To my surprise I found 6 that matched people in my tree perfectly

Sent off the e mails this evening. At this point in time I've had 3 replies and yes, they are all positive.

Soooooooooo one of these days/evenings when you have nothing better to do........have a trawl........you never know what you may find!!!

Jean

[Tracey]

Hello Jean

I got mine the other day and i do trawl through them and i usually get 5 pages worth. What irritates me the most about hot matches is say i have a Jane Smith born 1904 Glasgow Scotland i would like to know why they will also send me Jane Smith b 1904 in England, Ireland or Wales when i only want the Scottish one ( just using the name as an example i dont have one !)

[Jean Jeanie]

Hi Tracey

That's why for the past 18 months I have ignored the matches where there is only one. I got fed up looking at Jane Smiths. John Browns etc living in completely the wrong places.

I built up to 50 odd pages, so I thought I'd just have a look and get rid.

Was I surprised!!!!

Jean

[emanday]

Yup! Know the feeling. So many total unmatches, but then one that turns out to be an nth cousin umpteen times removed. Still, he is family, after all! and I now know about another set of people I am related to.

We're talking about my GGGGrandfather, also being his GGGG, etc... Grandfather

[davran]

I've found quite a few people through hot matches. Some are married into my family, so I only have the one match, but I still like to connect things up. I've just found someone who is also researching Knoxes - there don't seem to be too many of us, so I was very pleased to hear from her. I agree about the mismatched places of birth - very irritating, as are all those 0 0 0 ones!

[Rach]

Looking through my hot matches recently I discovered a member had 3 matches to our tree - 2 in mine and one in my husband's. She had managed to get back a couple of generations further back than I had and................yes! him indoors and I share the same 6 times gr gr'parents!!! When we met we didn't know that our ancestors had lived anywhere near each other but further into the research we realised that we had quite a few places in common.
Must have been the family resemblance that attracted us to each other

[rye470]

I don't know about anyone else, but i've recently had names come up in my 'Hot Matches' which just aren't in my tree. The Japanese names gave it away.

I'm afraid I'm not that exotic.


Christine.

[davran]

I don't know about anyone else, but i've recently had names come up in my 'Hot Matches' which just aren't in my tree.

Yes, that's happened to me - but not the Japanese ones. I do have some names I'm not very familiar with in my tree, so at first I thought these were some of those. I wonder how on earth it happens??

[Muriel]

Like everyone else I've got really irriatated with GR sometimes but every so often they turn up trumps. Has anyone else noticed that sometimes the main index says 1 hot match but when you actually look at it there are quite a few - I've just had one like that & yes, he is related!

Muriel

[ChrisC.]

I have looked at so many of these "Hot matches" I have found so many thet I do not want.
I think there are not many Scots enrolled at this site!

Researching McFarlane/Young in Glasgow and Argyle