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So I had a beer on saturday, and made my own reader for substituting "smartmatching".
This evening I made v1.1 of the reader.
Quick & dirty, but works MUCH better than the Smart Matching that myheritage.com supplies. I don't know how long time they've used to make the smart match.. I spent a couple of beers, and 3 hours..
Now I can select what to show; only names that is different from my three, only children that I am missing, only born or death year missing. Or all together, or variations of all above.
Any false results does not show.
I've made a screenshot on my website, www.dagsside.com. The example shows my results from 115 "results" from a smartmatch-page.
This is how www.myheritage.com should do it..
Sorry, made the results visible in Norwegian, but should take me 3 minutes to fix any language...
As I've told.. the smartmatching is a few hours of work to get a perfect sollution..
Implementing it though... but that is not any problem. The problem is to make a theory work.
If the webpages of smartmatches was showed with full dates in stead of just years, I could make my own fully working smartmatch, reading sourcecode of webpages that is showing all results in stead of just up to 50.
And then I even haven't any place of birth nor death to do matching even better..
I thought of making me a crawler.. but.. I have to stop somewhere... :)
A crawler would eliminate any further search. = No fun..
I am getting a lot of matches that make no sense at all. Such as, matching someone born in 1986 with someone who has a child born in 1700. I thought these were smart!
I was having the same problem - over and over and over. Rejecting and ignoring these "not so Smart Matches" would only last a max of 12 hrs (or so it seemed).
Rather than delete my person, what I did was add spaces to the names and dates. That way, I can still read it ... dumb computer doesn't think of the spaces as a match. Viola --- haven't had a "not so Smart Match" in over a month!
I think that when somebody posts a new tree with the EXACT same information(WHICH I HATE!) it just makes a new match for you to reject and/or ignore. I have 24 pages of matching trees with people that I have confirmed or rejected. I have 88 pages of trees which I have seen fit to ignore for one reason or another, many because they were just duplicate trees from the same member with the very same matches in them.
Yes, you can turn off Smart Matches at any time for any tree on your family site.
To turn off matches, log into your family site and click on Family Tree > Manage Trees. Then click EDIT for each tree and remove the check from "Enable Smart Matching".
Is it possible to copy ALL information provided about a person in another members tree by means of Smart Matching (not only the basic facts, but also the persons relatives etc)?
Just recently I keep coming across more Smart Matches where the other person has already dropped the maiden name of either the wife, mother or sister(s). It makes it difficult to truly confirm the match. Why not use " (born ------)" or a hyphenated married name. It also makes it impossible to further research the matriarchal lineage. Anyone shares this issue ?
The way names are displayed is left up to the Site Manager of the site. For example, some families find it important to show married names only, so that family site members will have an easier time looking up relatives.
However, the criteria for matching two names is also dependent upon the first and last names of the mother and father (if we don't have those names the match will get a much lower ranking). This, in effect, takes the maiden name of all women into consideration, regardless of the name format a particular person chooses to use.
You can see the criteria a match met (or didn't meet) by holding your mouse over the ranking percentage on the left side of each match.
I'm a newbeginner here. The documentation on Smart Matches is horribly lacking. The best piece of information I was able to find after hours of searching, was actually this blog post:
It says that confirming Smart Matches only is available on premium sites. I am a user of a premium site, and I see texts like "Review xx new matches", "Pending confirmation (xx)", "Confirmed (0)", etc, but I do not have any interface to actually confirm the matches! I am lacking the "Confirm all / Reject all" links on top, and I don't have the "Confirm" and "Reject" actions that need to show with every match.
Is there something wrong with the site, or is this just horribly bad UI design?
(Note: putting the "™" symbol in URLs is asking for problems!)
