About your 4), did that a while ago and that resulted in LOOSING ALL smart matches I had confirmed, LOOSING ALL markings to trees that I did NOT want to be compared to and to have to start ALL OVER AGAIN to confirm/deny 224 462 matches!!!!!!
So..... instead of getting LESS matches I got back ALL matches I had confirmed/denied the past 9 months.
Thanks, Glad to know that. I build everything through the FTB software. The only thing I lost is my photos. All my records are scanned and saved as a JPEG, PDF, or DOC file so I always have them. I do know eveything I save to Ancestry does not upload through GEDCOM. Maybe I need to buy that program also. Thanks for the info.
Why export to GEDCOM from FTB after publishing to MyHeritage site? I always create an FTB backup including photos. I typically only use GEDCOMs to export data to other software or genealogy sites. Just curious as to why you recommend GEDCOMs. :)
Ignorance I guess. Or newbe maybe since I have only been researching my family tree for a few months. I started with the program and found importing it via GEDCOM to Ancestry, Archives, and others I find more info links and find errors and/or corrections to my original start. Basically since I am a newbe, I know of no other method except to retype everything. It does have its drawbacks as not everything goes over. Any pointers would be appreciated. chieffmo@mail.com
Thank you for your response, David! No harm in making extra backups. There have been more than a few times I've been glad to have an extra. I've been working on genealogy for a few years now, but I'm still fairly new at it, as it's only been the last few months I've found much useful info. It's seems new records are scanned and indexed all the time, so perhaps that's why I've found some real facts after a long break from genealogy.
Anyway, I just asked because I thought perhaps I was missing an additional benefit of creating GEDCOMs. So thanks so much for your speedy response. :)
Usually if the match is repeated it's because either you or the other person has the name twice on their tree/site. As far as matching a person to their siblings, myheritage has never really seemed to give a satisfactory answer, and it's a situation that's gotten a lot of complaints.
The Smart Matches™ are generated when you make a change in your family tree and publish this to your website The data will then be compared with approximately 24 million other family trees at MyHeritage.
There are several possible reasons why smart matches disappear.
One of them is that the family tree has been deleted. As a result all the smart matches
related to this tree will be deleted as well.
Another reason can be that the webmaster of the match changed the persons cards or deleted his entire tree.
The results are that all related smart matches, including the smart matches already confirmed
and rejected will disappear.
Another reason could be is that you or the webmaster with whom you had smart matches stopped
the smart match function and this has the same effect as mentioned above; all smart matches for that tree disappear.
I recommend you to publish your tree on a regular basis so that the smart matches can be adjusted.
Due to the size of your tree this may take several days.
Best regards,
Lihi
MyHeritage team
Smart matches are false advertising. They should be labelled STUPID MATCHES instead. I really think they match on one single letter in both the first and last names. For that reason alone, I turned those silly things off. My life has definately been less complicated since I did that.
Smart matches are created when you publish your family tree to your website.
When creating a family tree you will receive "ad hoc matches" .The reason you see the Smart Match indicator but when you go to check the matches there are none is due to a lag in processing Smart Matches.
When you type the information into your tree, we check to see if there are matches "ad-hoc" or "on the fly".
If there is a match, the green icon appears to indicate we've found a preliminary match.
The actual matches usually take a few days to be processed, so if you go to check your matches right away you won't see any, but ideally you should get matches within 6-7 days .
There are several possible reasons why smart matches disappear.
One possibility is that the family tree has been deleted. As a result all the smart matches
related to this tree will be deleted as well.
Another reason can be that the webmaster of the match changed the persons cards or deleted his entire tree.
The results are that all related smart matches, including the smart matches already confirmed
and rejected will disappear.
Another reason could be is that you or the webmaster with whom you had smart matches stopped
the smart match function and this has the same effect as mentioned above; all smart matches for that tree disappear.
OVER 30 NEW dumb SMART MATCHES ALL THE VERY SAME PERSON BUT ON DIFFERENT TREES,. need a check box by each with an ALL box at the top to delete them but NO have to reject every last one!!! a PAIN u no where. but it makes you think you need to SUBSCRIBE right?
OVER 30 NEW dumb SMART MATCHES ALL THE VERY SAME PERSON BUT ON DIFFERENT TREES,. need a check box by each with an ALL box at the top to delete them but NO have to reject every last one!!! a PAIN u no where. but it makes you think you need to SUBSCRIBE right?
well in that the people on here that are SUPPOSED to resolve problems have FAILED TO DO SO i found a why to speed up REJECTIONS when you get 45 plus SMART matches on the SAME two people that DONT match!
under smart matches top right of the page it has "by tree or by PEOPLE" click peopld then all those are on one "REJECT ALL
It is possible to get false positives in Smart Matching. Especially when names are popular and in cases like Scandinavian name formats where the same names are repeated in different combinations.
We are working on improving the Smart Matching system from the foundations up. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We are working on improving the Smart Matching system from the foundations up. We apologize for the inconvenience.
How long do we have to read these words about "improving Smart Matching"? Will someone please pass me the barf bag? I'm getting sick just reading these words ... for about the 10-millionth time now.
If the company TRULY was interested in improving Stupid Matches, it would have lit a fire under the "development department" to GET IT WORKING CORRECTLY. Or fired the current "developers" and hired people who actually could produce a better system.
Instead, all we get is the same boilerplate response of "Thank you for your suggestion, I will pass it onto the correct department for their consideration"? What EXACTLY do these departments consider? I haven't seen any improvement in 2 years. The list of items to improve/fix must be about 6 times the circumferance of the Earth by now.
Update lag cannot be the reason! I have about 50 false matches that are at least one month old.
What algorithm is used for smart matching when the found matching persons in many cases have completely different names and are born about 100 years apart having different parents?? The matching system is useless! If it at least had been possible to make some personal settings so that only matches where the day of birth was within some selected interval, it would have been an improvement. I have stopped checking the matches, since it is waste of time stepping through all these false matches without finding a real match.
It is a pity that the mathing system is so bad. It had been a very nice feature, if it had worked properly.
För tillfället finns det inget sätt att ta bort Smart Matches, men man kan välja att ignorera dem så att de hamnar längst ner på listan och du slipper behandla dem på nytt. Det kan du göra genom att gå till Smart Matches-sektionen på hemsidan, klicka på "visa matchningar" och därefter klicka på "ignorera detta träd".
Jag hoppas att kritiken går fram till ansvariga för programvaran, så att de kan förbättra den. Det är ju synd att en sådan trevlig funktion fungerar så dåligt. Det är ju tack vare denna, som det finns anledning att lägga upp släktträden på nätet i stället för att ha dem privat i sin egen dator.
MyHeritage jobbar för tillfället med att modifiera söksystemet bakom Smarta Matches. När det arbetet är klart, kommer de Smart Matches som du mottar att ha högre procentuell precision än tidigare.
Var finns det "smarta" i dessa så kallade matchningar?
När det i ett matchat par finns följande:
Kön: Felmatchning
Förnamn: Felmatchning Johan - Anna
Efternamn: Felmatchning
Födelsedatum: Felmatchning 1913 - 1817
Dödsdatum: Felmatchning 1995 - 1897
Faderns förnamn: Felmatchning Olof - Per
Efternamn: Felmatchning
Moderns förnamn: Felmatchning
Make/makar: ingen i ena trädet
osv.
Med andra ord inte en siffra/bokstav rätt.
Det känns verkligen uppmuntrande när det dyker upp meddelanden om 100-400 nya "smartmatches".
Blir inte bättre när man dessutom upptäcker att det finns medlemmar som GODKÄNT dessa.
Blir också förvånad när jag ser att min bror har två fruar i vissa träd (undrar om han har någon aning om det?).
Stackars den som ska släktforska i framtiden då släktträd tydligen kopieras helt utan kontroll via "myheritage".
Det blir nog bara det förbetalda året för min del.
Jag har tittat på dessa matcher och vi är medvetna om det faktum att systemet inte är felfri.
Som ett resultat av dessa korrupta pooler (som vi kallar dem) en ny mekanism för beräkning Smart matcher redan i vår utvecklare händer och på färdplanen som en del av Smart Match förbättringar.
Denna nya mekanism kommer att minska antalet falska positiva träffar dramatiskt.
Det är mycket mer robust än vårt nuvarande system. Jag är inte att göra några löften om tidsramar
för frisläppande av detta nya system - det finns fortfarande mycket att förstå om omfattningen av
projektet innan vi kan definiera och lovar en tid - men jag trodde att du skulle vara
intresserad av att veta att det är på gång.
Tack för uppdateringen,
Esther / MyHeritage Team
Hi,
I have looked at these matches and we are aware of the fact that the system is not flawless.
As a result of these corrupted pools (as we call them) a new mechanism for calculating Smart Matches is already in our developer's hands and on the road map as part of the Smart Match improvements.
This new mechanism will reduce the number of false positive matches dramatically.
It's much more robust than our current system. I'm not making any promises about time frames
for release of this new system - there is still a lot to understand about the scope of
the project before we can define and promise a time - but I thought you would be
interested to know it's in the works.
