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hi all, tonight for the first time i went to the trouble of trawling through [6 pages , ahem]my hot matches. found 2 'possibles' BUT someone on here has my gt gt grandad in there tree. i am 100% sure it is him... same unusual name. date and place of birth !!!!! i have contacted the person.... i am now praying she replies !!! lol, sue.xxx

Hi Sue I only seem to get matches for relatives beginning with B! Does anyone else have the whole range. Regards Kim

mine had an assortment of surnames.... from lots of different members. but the one i found that matches, is definately one of mine . i am worrying now, in case she does not get back to me ! lol, sue. x

I only seem to get CARTER and EDWARDS - both of whom belong to my partner - they're not MY tree!!!!! And it's soooooo slow!

And Ive just had 4 pages of Ann Unknown

Yes, have at least sixty hot matches of Ann Unknown. Unbearable.

Jill Your not on you own i have Carter and Edwards both with no years or places.

Ness, perhaps we are hotmatched then!

I have had 2 hot matches that I have contacted.just hope they reply. But GR have missed a few of my hot matches for a certain surname but luckily I have been contacted a while ago by someone in Canada but GR still have missed this surname. Sue

Hi I know someone who has my 3xgt/grand father in their tree, I am hoping for a reply and praying that they still use the site and have not change their email address. Doreen.

I have only got matches for surnames beginning with A and B, frustrating when the surnames I'm trying to trace most begin with G, N and P. It's a great idea if only it would work properly. Cathy

I still haven't had mind =(

The Hot Matches seem to pay more attention to year of birth than area of birth; so if your relatives have one of your ancestors on GR with a birth year just a year out from you, they may not turn up as a Hot Match - just my thoughts. I have given my information to relatives only to see them interpret it differently (usually incorrectly)! So our mutual ancestors might not even be classed as Hot Matches - get my drift? Cheers, Lynn

I had 3 pages of hotmatches to my grandfather that weren't my grandfather. All had his name and year of birth but born in a diferent country. Grandfather was born in Wales and all the hotmatches were from England. ended up screaming every time I saw the name coming up again. aaahh!

I have hot matches with names with many initial letters, both ends of alphabet but can't really see the point of matching my names from Wales and Herefordshire-born people with those born in Australia and other far off places. If you have surnames such as DAVIES, JONES and WOOD you are very likely to find a namesake somewhere. That's not what I call a match.

I've had the same thing happen as Lunar with my grandmother (b 1920's), but I found that the hotmatches exactly matched the forenames, surname and year of birth but the locations were so different it was unbeleivable. for example Cardiff, Wales keeps being matched with London, England or Wellington, New Zealand.

well one of my hot matches replied THIS IS NOT MY RELATIVE I hate that and think it is so rude, If its not their relative how come its in their tree?? Gloria

Just had another batch of 'hot matches' all 4 pages for either the surname Bennett or Bailey. I do have these in my tree as offshoot branches along with 200 other surnames, when will Genes get around to them. Is anyone else still getting the same problem?

I'll just see if I can dig out GR's answer to my query about when they are going to get the Hot Matches working properly... Thanks for your email. Hot matches looks at each individual in your tree, then it goes through the database and brings back to first 100 matches with these people. This page will refresh every 14 days bringing you the next 100 matches. . As you have a large tree then it is more than likely that the first 100 matches will only equal the first letter of the alphabet. We set the limit to 100 matches as any more can be quite overwhelming. I hope this helps. Regards Erica So as far as they are concerned, it doesn't need fixing!!! I don't think mine will ever get past all the William Browns. I have considered changing a few people's names in my tree or deleting them for a while or even setting up a tree on a different account leaving out the Browns, just to get genuine hot matches, but it seems a bit drastic! Kate.

there are a lot of William Andersons out there this month!!! What happened to all the SMITH? At least 1000 of them join every day so why are none of them hot matches? gloria