had to laugh got a email saying they have a match for my unknown Mary ????
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To be honest Val, I may be cutting off my nose to spite my face (what a lovely expression!), but I've stopped Hot Matches. I'm reasonably along with my tree and don't want to know about a vague first name match, or even a surname, when we could be talking from John o' Groats to Lands End. I'll always reply, but usually have nowt to offer as the 'match' is way out.
GwynFreya - a lovely, funny human-friendly disaster waiting to happen....
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I had something similar a while back. It is daft - but I do get the odd useful connection from time to time.
ChristineResearching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...
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I had about 20 matches for my mother mother recently! I hardly bother these days as most times it is Noble for Australia when my Noble is Northants, same date just different country! They really are a waste of space as far as I am concerned, though no doubt some find them useful! I do agree that the further on you are with your own tree the less interested I become.
Yes I agree, I do a search occasionally to see if anything comes up matching my own.
JanetLast edited by Janet; 22-11-11, 09:43.
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I once had over 100 for plain and simple "unknown". I no longer bother to look, and trust that if there is a startling match then the other person will get in touch with me. I don't feel that this is lazy, because to me it is a total waste of time trawling through all the rubbish in the hope of finding one good match.Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.
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Originally posted by sally View PostI once had over 100 for plain and simple "unknown".Uncle John - Passed away March 2020
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I even get HM's for no-one in my tree - so why have they hotmatched me????
It says someone in Fred Bloggs tree matches their John Smith with your David Jones - I just don't understand it.
Researching Irish families: FARMER, McBRIDE McQUADE, McQUAID, KIRK, SANDS/SANAHAN (Cork), BARR,
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UJ
I call her Mary (Mrs Jones) but unfortunately, other people do this too!
Janet
Oh yes, a double-edged sword all right! The vast majority of my contacts are from enthusiastic beginners who are convinced that there was only one John Green ever born.
However, I do have to admit to sending out long shots on my mystery man and increasingly ignoring the restraints of the facts!
This is/was pure desperation on my part - didn't work, just irritated people who knew anything about their man and drew equal desperation from those who knew nothing but assumed I could tell them!
I'm sure HMs are a good idea - but only as an idea.
OC
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Originally posted by JBee View PostI even get HM's for no-one in my tree - so why have they hotmatched me????
It says someone in Fred Bloggs tree matches their John Smith with your David Jones - I just don't understand it.Uncle John - Passed away March 2020
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Well it wasn't me - I haven't messed with anything on GR lately.
and none of the HM's refer to any names on my tree - so can't understand how there can be any sort of match.
Researching Irish families: FARMER, McBRIDE McQUADE, McQUAID, KIRK, SANDS/SANAHAN (Cork), BARR,
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I had about 20 matches for my mother mother recently! I hardly bother these days as most times it is William Noble for Australia when my William Noble is Northants, same date just different country!
If they discounted those then I wouldn't have to trawl through so many just to have to delete them.
I have to add though, that I have had a few great contacts who have furnished me with photo's and info; we have been most grateful for those, and I have been able to help them out too.
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