Similar profiles should be sensitive to maiden name i.e. if I have Elizabeth Smith (nee Jackson) I don't want results for all Elizabeth Smiths AND ALL Elizabeth Jacksons. I want Elizabeths who married name is Smith and Maiden name is Jackson.
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Erica Howton High priority for me.
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Catherine Erin Serafina Liora Spiceland (Pinder) YES, hot matches are a joke. They are notoriously inaccurate. Please address this!
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Luc Germain Camiel De Bleeckere I thought American women were emancipated so use your birth name not your fake husbands name.
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Terry Jackson (Switzer) Luc Germain Camiel De Bleeckere, even if that is so (I'm not American) it is not relevant to this suggestion which is asking that hot matches are more accurate so that if an American Womans profile was Elizabeth Smith (nee Smith) then it would produce matches for Elizabeth Smiths only and not other names. On the other hand if Elizabeth Smith married a mr Jones then it would only produce Elizabeth Jones (Smith) matches.
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Will Chapman (Vol. Curator) I'd go a step further. How can you call a match 'smart' if it matches two people who were born and died in different countries?
I would like to see some optional settings for matches. There are times when this list of matches is so long that it is nothing but tedious to have to go through dozens of obvious mismatches.
I am also surprised that there doesn't appear to be a way to effect a bulk reject of selected (selected with a simple check box) matches. I note that there appears to be a mechanism to do this but it doesn't work that way.
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Eldon Clark (Geni volunteer curator) Also needed in matches is middle name. I am seeing, and using, the first and middle names in the first name field because the middle name field is not searchable in basic searches
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Kenneth Ekman Would it be possible to add support for multiple levels of matching?
Or, perhaps the parameters in the matching algorithm could even be set by pro-users?
Right now i have thousands of Geni-"matches" in my tree of which 99.99% are invalid matches, but getting some help finding the valid 0.01% would be appreciated.
That way we could still check all the matches using the broad filter, but a narrower filter could be useful to find the needles in the haystack?
Meanwhile you could try out some different matching algorithms within the different levels?
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Dave K. I got so tired of being swamped with useless tree matches that I have changed my job title from "merge monkey" to "unmatch monkey". I have been manually going through literally thousands of stupid tree matches and marking them as NOT a match. Computers should be able to do most of this work, but I guess it must remain a manual chore until Geni decides to put a priority on finding a better solution.
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Kenneth Ekman I also went through all my matches a few months ago, marking every invalid match as "not a match".
Now, however, I again have thousands of invalid matches, so it didn't help as long as I had hoped...
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Otto Sembach I'm also so damn tired of this shit, it's one of the worst in the whole GENI. It's one of the things that makes you seriously considering using another program to one's family tree. I made a ticket for a couple of years ago, for better filtering, but they will not take it into consideration
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Maven B. Helms "Done", eh? Yeah right. Apparently it needs to be REdone, because we're getting the same screwy mismatches again (first name AND EITHER last name OR birth name)
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