25,000 on tree!

[sue2white]

I know I shouldn't really be groaning about this, as there are many people who do all there own reasearch and gather masses of information so have an enormous family tree. But I was contacted yesterday by somebody on GR who has in excess of 25,000 people on his tree and we had a 'hot match' with only one person!
Now is it really possible that this person is NOT my pet hate....a name collector?? That is ridiculous!! I have a fair number on my tree, quite a few that I have gathered with the kind help of people on GR, in fact I have made some fantastic contacts, but this really annoys me.
Needless to say, I will not be replying.
|soapbox|
Sue

[vic1]

May be we should all reply. with that many names at least a few of us should be related. certainly keep them busy for a while |jumphappy

[sue2white]

May be we should all reply. with that many names at least a few of us should be related. certainly keep them busy for a while Today


Absolutely!!
Or do you think Ive hit a nerve??
Sue |nutkick|

[Nicolina]

you could always ask if they have Bill or Mary Smith in their tree. Date of birth - sometime in the 19th Century.
Before I deleted my tree from GR, I got sick of people asking about Mary Bell. Most of the enquiries referred to Scottish ones even though mine was clearly listed as being born, married and buried in the same small village Yorkshire

[v.wells]

I have about 1400 on my GR tree and not all of them are directly related to me. They are offshoots with the hope that someone will have information about someone else. One never knows. I always reply to contacts even if it is "Sorry wrong person"! I get very annoyed when people don't respond but they are better on GR than on A*.

I have also done as Nicolina has and deleted a great portion of one line as it is not a line that particularly interests me but the surname is Lawrence and it seems every body on the planet is related to a Lawrence. There are some very confused people out there in GR land!

[Nicolina]

the ones that really annoy me are those who insist that they are related to some-one famous even when all the evidence proves otherwise. I had some-one who even "invented" a name change to try and fit BUT they made one very huge mistake - the title they were trying to claim had been in abeyance for over 200 years. Very strange but I never heard from them again after I sent a copy of the 1841 Census info. to show that I was right all along.
Ironically my family folk-lore had me related to several titled people but I (happily) dis-proved it.

[v.wells]

Ironically my family folk-lore had me related to several titled people but I (happily) dis-proved it.


That is what I call a feel good moment :D

[ET in the USA]

the surname is Lawrence and it seems every body on the planet is related to a Lawrence.


WOW !!! My husband's gran was a Lawrence, you may be related |hug|

Elaine

[sue2white]

I must say that I relented. But I did just say that we only matched with one person (who is a twig on my tree)
I'll see what sort of reply I get from that.
I'm still shaking my head at 25,000!! |shakehead

Sue

[BeeE586]

I have had some good contacts from GR and I'm always pleased if a couple of other researchers have deduced similar links to me from the available evidence. The so called 'Hot Matches' I find irritating are when they match my Elizabeth NK to another Elizabeth NK. Yes, I suppose it is a match in a way, but totally meaningless.

Eileen

[v.wells]

I have had some good contacts from GR and I'm always pleased if a couple of other researchers have deduced similar links to me from the available evidence. The so called 'Hot Matches' I find irritating are when they match my Elizabeth NK to another Elizabeth NK. Yes, I suppose it is a match in a way, but totally meaningless.

Eileen

I totally agree there Eileen - the NK matches are truly worthy of being ignored :D

Elaine - I have a maternal many times gt grandmother who married a Lawrence and I have Lawrence people's trees printed out just for the info - perhaps we are far reaching cousins |hug|

[DBCoup]

I'm always pleased if a couple of other researchers have deduced similar links to me from the available evidence.

My pet hate is when the "deduced similar links" are "deduced" from MY evidence. This is because many "researchers" or name collectors don't appreciate the enormous effort taken to accumulate this information nor the importance of citing sources. A dead give-away on my surname is when people have a link to New Zealand. There is no way the link can be made from America to New Zealand without my data. It is possible only to make the link from New Zealand (Aotearoa if you prefer) to America. That is also the case with several of my other lines (James McKenzie of Scotland, for example)

BTW I am sure I have 25000 ancestors/cousins as well but have only found a couple of thousand so far ;)

daryl

[Chisel]

I made the mistake of opening my tree to a guy with 12,000 names|nopity| . Needless to say I have regretted it ever since as most of the new reported hits come from what he filtched from me. I also know that he suckered a cousin into releasing his info some of which is wrong and some of which I gave him. |nutkick| (raw nerve)

[sue2white]

The so called 'Hot Matches' I find irritating are when they match my Elizabeth NK to another Elizabeth NK. Yes, I suppose it is a match in a way, but totally meaningless.

I have unsubscribed from the Hot Matches now, as they were not worth the effort of reading
Sue |nutkick|

[v.wells]

I have unsubscribed from the Hot Matches now, as they were not worth the effort of reading
Sue |nutkick|

Where do you find the option to do that? |blush|

[sue2white]

If you log into your account and look at email preferences, you can unsubscribe the hot matches.
Sue
|laugh1|

[v.wells]

Thank you Sue - I think I knew that but asking is more fun|laugh1|

[MythicalMarian]

the ones that really annoy me are those who insist that they are related to some-one famous even when all the evidence proves otherwise. I had some-one who even "invented" a name change to try and fit BUT they made one very huge mistake - the title they were trying to claim had been in abeyance for over 200 years. Very strange but I never heard from them again after I sent a copy of the 1841 Census info. to show that I was right all along.
Ironically my family folk-lore had me related to several titled people but I (happily) dis-proved it.

Hehe - this reminds me of an American lady who got in touch with me a few years ago to tell me that my 3xgreat grandma Sally Barrow (a good old Cheadle lass) was MOST DEFINITELY part of the same Barrow family that contained Clyde Barrow, the outlaw of Bonnie and Clyde fame. As there seems not a shred of evidence to link them, I treated the whole thing as a huge joke and my son (about 13 at the time) went round school with a photo from the internet of his 'cousin' Clyde. To this day, as a joke, I always refer to him as 'Our' Clyde! Of course, it's all nonsense. I think this person had just collected every Barrow on the planet living or dead and assumed they were all connected.

Now, I just need another nice American lady to get in touch to tell me that my Parker family are related to Bonnie and I'll have the set! :D

[Nicolina]

a couple of years ago, by accident, I found a second cousin in America and when I telephoned her we spent 90 minutes exchanging family folk-lore. Although our respective ancestors were raised together, the "story" handed down her line was so completely different to mine. My "titled" ancestor had become a Shipowner!!!!!!!!!! Not bad for an Ag Lab,called BROWN.
However I do have a Pirate in the family, very well documented.

Strangely enough, I never had anyone on GR enquire about my Brown family. One person did keep insisting that we had a match but when I checked her tree there was a very obvious error. She had my ancestor's details except she had her married and a mother aged 9

[susan-y]

I have unsubscribed from the Hot Matches now, as they were not worth the effort of reading
Sue |nutkick|


Hi Sue.....

I also find Hot Matches annoying, but you never know when there will be a helpful one. I am sorry you have unsubscribed. Like you I get annoyed at matches that aren't even from the same country, when they seem to get stuck on the same name ( right now they are matching every Fletcher ever born to the shirt-tail relatives on my tree) or when they match me up with myself...in Wales|laugh1|
I won't unsubscribe as I keep hoping for the "big" break-through and it really is a minor annoyance that I curse out|oopsredfa as I go through the lists. Like Eileen I have found some helpful people and made some good friendships through the lists.

Sue

PS> Maybe we are related.....same fisrt names|jumphappy