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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Nick Carver on Thursday 07 December 06 20:23 GMT (UK)
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I got a mail from Genes Reunited today saying that they believe they have found one of my ancestors on the 1901 census. I have no problem in them trying to be helpful, but just how many people will have entered the names of 19th century relatives without recourse to 1901? What really bugs me though was even though I had entered g grandmother's name, date of birth and place of birth, the page to which my e-mail was linked contained a dozen 'suspected' relatives, none of whom was my relative.
Not sure if I am being unfair to them or if they are genuinely trying to find some new services to offer based on what they hold. I suspect they are trying to encourage people to access 1901. Anyone else got any opinions?
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I had that too. Some obscure, distant name, and NOT related!
meles
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I had one as well, my person was born in New Zealand so it's highly unlikely they would find him on the 1901 census, or infact any English census. Just wish they would check where people were born.
jericho
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Me too ! The lucky person they had found for me had no connection whatsoever with my lot - Maybe they were pot luck ??
Black Sheep
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I've had this from GR too. It seems to be their policy to find a name and attach it you whether it's genuine or not, and they never have been yet.
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Yep, same here.
The daft thing was that the name listed on the link to the email was my gg grandmother's maiden name (Ann Barnett) even though she's clearly on my Genes tree as married to George Bishop in 1838!! Doh! :P
I'd like to be more charitable but I think it's a blatant exercise in trying to get us to spend more money, but, then again, Ancestry do the same thing.
I hope not too many people will fall for it.
Jill
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Well at least the person they put forward to me has the same name as my ancestor and was born in the same year, so she would have been in 1901 census. They must have some pretty good software to be certain of always excluding the right match. Really sophisticated.
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I'm feeling left out,they didn't send me one!
Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
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I didn't get one either and I've got loads of name in my GR tree.....
.... not fair :(
Angela
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Its spam. A slightly more sophisticated spam than most, but its still spam. I still worry about how these spammers actually manage to tap into your computer or email or postings and get things like those significant names, but they do, and then you get what is basically advertising junkmail from them - but junkmail that is a wee bit more attractive than just sending out a more general ancestry link for you to follow and purchase their product.
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I've had one too and I ignored it, I don't find GR that sophisticated. I just laughed when I read that they had found one of my relatives on the 1901. Haha I found that one years ago!!!!!!
Kerry :D :D :D :D
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I did get the email and am prepared to wait to see what happens with this new development wth GR.
So far I have been very satisfied with my two year subscription .......... but do get somewhat concerned when what appears to be a commercial interest evolving.
joboy
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Not had an email yet from GR but thanks for the warning!
Nanny Jan
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have had 2 of this type of email over the last couple of weeks.
both "matches" on the 1901 england and wales census
can't be matches at all because both rellies were born and died in
ireland .wonder why they did'nt find a match for the other rellies who did live in or travelled to england and wales. ???
anne
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When they find my William and Winifred Carter in 1901 then I will be impressed - no they are not the couple who immediately pop up, they just happen to have the same name and live in the same area ???
Doh! another annoying thing that gets you all excited only to turn into another scam.
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Yep .....I've had one of those as well, great you say ;D
No by 1901 she had married had 5 children and then died....all of the dates are entered on mine so how did GR find her
..a medium :-X
Tazzie
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I've had one of these e-mails too. I've had a few spam e-mail recently and took this to be the same as it was out of the ordinary.
This should be another thread, but I have also had 3 e-mails from Geneanet.org saying it is a reply to a forum I'm supposed to be part of. In the email there are about 50 at least, other web addresses for various things. I hate to think what for :o. So I've delete the mail and hope they move on.
Pipkim ;)
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Perhaps its a alternative to hot matches ;D which I occasionally get fed up with.
helina
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I had the same thing. The person had nothing to do with my relative, besides the name really. :(
Kath