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Removal of hot matches

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David

David Report 13 May 2009 17:00

Hi, I have six pages of hot matches, of which at least four are not matches except in name and year of birth,does anyone out there know of a way to get rid of these extra useless pages.Many thanks in advance..David

BrianW

BrianW Report 13 May 2009 17:11

Can you hit "Select All" at the bottom of the page, deselect those you want to keep and then hit "Ignore selected"?

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

David

David Report 13 May 2009 17:24

Hi brian,Did that but they keep returning after a short period.Thanks David

julia of sussex

julia of sussex Report 13 May 2009 18:10

Hi could i just say its well worth going through all the pages i know it takes time but the last 2 months ive had 8-9 pages and twice ive struck lucky and have had a match one went back to the 1600's so my advice is persevire ( sp)

happy hunting

julia

David

David Report 15 May 2009 15:37

Hi folks,I will persevere,many thanks...David

Berona

Berona Report 16 May 2009 02:32

You can change how and if you receive hot matches, from "My Account".

However, until they can show us the name of the common ancestor in the list of hot matches, I am not interested in any of them. It is so much easier to "Search Trees" if you want to know about an ancestor - and just deal with that one.

I don't like having to open each hot match to see who we are talking about - then deleting the unwanted ones. Takes ages when you get half a dozen pages of them.

GranOfOzRubySlippers

GranOfOzRubySlippers Report 16 May 2009 04:24

My latest hot match is:

My Tree
William Smith 1789 Wortley Yorkshire

Other Tree
John Deakon 1836 Lavenham Suffolk

Cannot wait for the next edition of Hot Matches. With such close matches I cannot go wrong.

Just so funny

Gail

InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 16 May 2009 05:27

This topic turns up every couple of weeks, even more frequently than the one about allowing other members to have access to your tree.

You can't delete them, only hide the ones you are not interested in. If you are getting matches in name and DOB then they are working correctly. If you have a mismatch of names then this is a fault, but is sometimes as a result of you or the other member changing or uploading a new tree. Should sort itself out next time around.

As far as I know, turning off the notification will do just that, stop you receiving an email from GR, your Hotmatches are still there.

Despite the shortcomings, they do turn up something interesting every now and again, but if they are not for you then simply don't bother looking at them