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Anyone else have Hot Matches they have changed and gone crazy?

See below

Matches with Pamela's treeThe names listed below are relations in Pamela's tree whose name and date of birth match your family tree
Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Marie John
Last Name: Mercier Webster
Year of Birth: 1748 1756
Place of Birth: Quebec,
Canada Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Thimothee John
Last Name: Dussault Webster
Year of Birth: 1834 1756
Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Elizabeth John
Last Name: Blackstone Webster
Year of Birth: 1871 1756
Place of Birth: SOUTHAMPTON Hampshire England Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Laura John
Last Name: Nault Webster
Year of Birth: 1886 1756
Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Aurelia John
Last Name: Moisan Webster
Year of Birth: 1892 1756
Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Georges John
Last Name: Truax Webster
Year of Birth: 1878 1756
Place of Birth: Quebec, Canada Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: John John
Last Name: Webster Webster
Year of Birth: 1756 1756
Place of Birth: Fiskerton, Lincolnshire, England Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Ann John
Last Name: Andrew Webster
Year of Birth: 1697 1756
Place of Birth: Stapleford Lincolnshire, England Unknown

Details Pamela's tree Your tree
First Name: Edward John
Last Name: Broughton Webster
Year of Birth: 1737 1756
Place of Birth: Upton, Nottinghamshire, England Unknown

Linda, I seldom get anyone that matches mine. There is only one other that shows up each time, and he is a fourth cousin, and I gave him most of what he has got. Last time I got someone that was abroad somewhere, whilst mine are Northants and Cambs. How these could be a hot match I'll never know
Julia in Derbyshire

Hi Linda. Hope you are well.
I have only just started, at long last, doing my tree on gr, and got a hot match for someone with the same name, but who was born on the other end of the world.

So, how can that be a match, let alone a HOTMATCH lol!!

I had a load last time for Hidden Hidden 1900,weird !!!!

One of the reasons this happens, Linda, is when you or the other person uploads a new tree to the site, after the last HotMatch run, which means all the pointers are out of synch.. It will sort itself out in due course.

Tinas's "problem" is a feature of the site. HotMatches don't check the place of birth.

Yes it would be brilliant if it did, but there are two main problems. One of computing power, it needs a big big processor to match a number of words of text, and the second that there are so many different variations in the way that people enter place names.

For example, is S'port Lancashire the same as Southport Lancs, or worse than that North Meols, Lancashire? A human would say yes they all match, but to program a computer to do the same, and given the millions of variations all over the world is well nigh on impossible.

I was involved with a name and address matching project with a major bank a few years ago. It cost £10 million to implement and in the end it was still down to the human to accept or reject possible matches. No different to GR really.

Perhaps GR should look at a country match, then perhaps a county match. Might be implemented without too much effort.

P.S. one of the main problems with implementing a decent solution is with people importing gedcom files with incomplete information. I have seen name with missing dates, missing places and all sorts of rubbish.

Thank you Brinsley S
I knew about only matching name and date. Even had a few Unknowns, which I just delete and ignore.

But I was surprised to see such non matches as completely different names BOTH and dates too. Only one name out of about 8 was the match.

I wait for my next batch with baited breath

Linda :o)

My HMs are similar to Linda's - TOTAL non-matches. I cannot see an ICT explanation for this.

Also, on several HMs, where the sole individual does match details, the match is repeated 3 times!

The match software seems to be EXTREMELY crude and the programming flawed. I wonder if they will refund part of our subscriptions??? ROTFL

Logically, the tree owners of our Hot Matches would have received a similar list. Any chance they might spot a family connection that we are unaware of?

Dermot
It seems to me that we don't necessarily get the same Hot Match as our "sharing" names.

Linda :o)