What I have noticed is when it says private, its usually because the site manager has not marked this person as deceased. I usually go into more information on the smart match , and usually the information is there, just have to look deeper than the surface....means it takes longer.
The thought behind this was that you might want to contact the site manager and ask for details- It means
that there is a possibility of a match but we can not let you see the information because the site manager marked it as private/The person you matched with is alive.
We will discuss this approach and might change it.
Well...I wouldn't go so far as to give up on smart matches. I have found a good many gold nuggets in the chaff, some major big ones, and made some great genealogical friends with whom I have formed a mutual aid society. The 'private' annoyance thing is a small price to pay.
You are absolutley right. What I dont understand is why people use a share facility like myheritage and then make it impossible by setting private. It must be counter productive and very annoying.
Hi, I seem to get matches from a fairly small group of members who share relations with me; but few if any of the people in the trees are marked private except if they are still living and I am not a member of the particular tree. Geoff
My resources tel me that you are not the only one who has matches öff"- I know of casses where they have disappered then retuned and the usrer has to accept/reject all AGAIN. I cant say that is an improvenet.
Perhpas the developers are asleep.
I just joined a few days ago. I have had 0 record matches and 0 smart matches. I have a tree of about 1500 people. So what's up with this? Obviously things are not working. And yes, I have turned on smart matches. I'm seeing no reason to continue membership.
Thats interesting Andrew. I know I didn't turn it off and sure enough yesterday I got the same error message and had to go back in and switch it on again. Could be a bug with the new 0.7 version, alternately, as you said...the develepors are asleep!!!
got registered 7 april, it's now may 1st and still not a single match found, even though i have 2 relatives registered with similar trees.... all settings concerning smart match is activated and i've published the tree both online and via FTB. WTF????
