That's great to hear about all your success with smart matching results!
Smart Matching on the family site is less advanced in general. You cannot merge matches (much as you suspected), and you cannot confirm or reject matches.
I see you are working with family tree builder. Although it is currently not possible to clear Smart matches from your family site (this feature will be available in the future) what you can do is to mark smart matches as ‘rejected’ in Family Tree builder.
In order to do that, go to the smart matches tab, and click on ‘ change status ‘.
I saw someone noting the lack of merging trees-option, and I am glad I am not the only one wanting this.
It's so silly for everyone in the family to have to make a huge tree, when instead one who's already done so could have everyone link to this tree. My uncle is making a big tree and we just assumed we would be able to link it to my user when I created one. But instead I have to make a tree as extensive as he does, incase someone checks out my profile...and my sister and my parents would have to make theirs aswell. Why cant we just do the Smart Match and merge it?
That way it could be merged also between bigger families that are tied through marriage aswell. Arghh! Will this be a feature soon? You'd think it was a given that this was an option. It must be a real spacesaver.
If you use the Family Tree builder program you can merge content from some one else's tree into yours. One thing you don't seem to be able to do is merge content from your own trees. It seems that Smart Match will not find trees that you yourself create - therefore no merge of content.
I recently found a tree with hundreds of my family from Denmark and Sweden on it and had to select only a few key people into my tree. It was a great find that filled in some interesting parts of the tree dating back to the 1650s.
I have recently been experiencing some troubles with my Family Tree Builder Program showing Smart Matches. When I add a new individual, the program shows that it has located a Smart Match. But when I click to see the results, it says that no Smart Matches were found. I had this same problem a few months ago, but it straightened out after a few days. This time the problem has been going on for nearly a week and a half.
I have the latest version of the program. What could be causing this problem?
I will try to publish my tree back onto the site and see what happens then. I am not sure if that is what might be causing the problem, but I will let you know.
When I go to install the new version of the program, it comes up with an error saying that insufficient space is available in my drive to install it. I have made sure that there is enough room to install it, but it will still have the same error. For some reason the old version does not give me the problem,
If Vista is telling you that you don't have enough space, you could have a problem with the "Restore Points". I lost most of my hard drive because Vista was set to unlimited Restore Points. I eventually recovered the unused space by restricting the number of Restore Points. It should take up no more than 15% of the hard drive. In my case it took up more than 50%. You can download a tool called "WinDirStat" which will diagnose how much junk Vista is storing without your knowledge.
I wonder if anyone could advise me on how to delete incorrect Smart Matches. Its a fantastic tool which has already put me in touch with a couple of distant relatives but the majority of the Smart Matches are nonsense and I am sick of trawling through them.
I'm sure it is a distinctive product because of it usefulness, and it will became indispensable in any genealogy program!
I have now over 1300 people in my family tree with the help of cousins and cousins of my cousins. This is great, but of course many of this cousins (and other I don't know) create their own trees. This has the potential to create a huge amount of (useless?) duplicates.
It would be great if we could merge/link trees, increasing enormously the amount of family links, saving a lot of effort and a lot of space on disk (somewhere). For a start, a simple link to another tree would be good, as an option following the smart match.
Here at MyHeritage, we have a few linking features:
When smart matching is processed on your tree, and your family tree and another tree are connected, both the owners are informed, and benefit from the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other. Merging the information gained from a Smart Match is a Premium feature.
If you would like to actually merge two trees together you can do that as well, please see here:
Something like that would be nice, but there would still have to be a way of getting permission from each tree administrator in order to access their tree. Due to the privacy constraints, it just doesn't seem possible.
Anyone that has an account with MyHeritage.com is a member of MyHeritage.com. They can create their own site (and become site manager of that site), or they can become a member in another family site, belonging to someone else. To become a member of another family site, they can either be invited by the site manager. When this happens, they automatically become a member of the site. To see how to invite members to a site, please see:
