GR - it gets worse

[Sylviaann]

I haven't been a memeber for a year now.  Go an e-mail the other day which simply said "Yes you can" and their tree was open to me.

I wrote back with No I can't I'm not a member how are you related

Reply didn't give much away so I deleted it

Similar thing with another contact a couple of months ago.  Not much from them in the replies and when I look they are not down for the family further back.

It was good at first but now it's full of people who don't want to do any work

I don't give permission to look at my tree now unless they supply more info.  Then I send my e-mail address.

Sylviaann

[downside]

If you get hot matches for Mary's or John's, its because you have the same vague detail in your own tree

That's not quite true.  My data is exact.  Nothing vague about it.

How do you explain the illogical search results and my opening remarks at the top of this thread?

[Gadget]

I'm fully behind Downside on this one.

The hot matches that kept coming up for me where for ancestors where I had entered exact names, dates and places of birth. They just matched on surname - Jones, etc. 

Their algorithms for matching are just very poor.

Gadget

[Simon G.]

I'm rapidly loosing patience with GenesReunited.  Not just because of the inherent problems of the site itself, but in the downright rudeness of certain people on there.  And I'm not just talking about those that don't say a word once you've exchanged information...that happens, it's life.
No, I'm talking about an incident I've had recently.  I sent a message sometime before Christmas to someone on there, to which I got a reply on Christmas Day.  Now this past Christmas hasn't been a very good one here, and we've been dealing with a lot of problems as a family that has meant that until a week ago I was not really in either the mood or position to be able to even log into the site (for goodness sake, until a week ago I didn't even know if I'd still have a house to live in...let alone the ability to deal with family history).  Imagine my distress when I log in to notice an incredibly rude message from this same person lecturing me on courtesy and how it is polite to acknowledge a message I at the time hadn't even read.
Maybe it's me, but I do find it incredibly ironic to receive a lecture on courtesy that was hardly courteous in itself and it's really soured me on ever doing anything with my tree again.

[bitty_matriarch]

It was good at first but now it's full of people who don't want to do any work

I don't give permission to look at my tree now unless they supply more info.  Then I send my e-mail address. 

After having my tree "lifted" this now my approach  

I wasn't going to re-new again last September - but I did - and have since found 2 more 3rd cousins


  Ann

[mc8]

If you get hot matches for Mary's or John's, its because you have the same vague detail in your own tree

That's not quite true.  My data is exact.  Nothing vague about it.

How do you explain the illogical search results and my opening remarks at the top of this thread?

their search engine matches names and dates, not places-not a bad idea really as users give varying amounts of location details on their trees (I might give Yarmouth, another Great Yarmouth, another just Norfolk, which wouldn't match on an address search)
a search usually brings up enough detail to give a hefty hint which ones you can ignore (and I always ignore the ones with no location at all, as your example shows). Matches for Mary 1800 no surname (earlier in this thread) would suggest that your tree contains the same