Question/answer » What are matches and what can I do with them?

A match is a person from your family tree who also appears in another publication on Genealogy Online. Or someone who looks very much like that person. Every month, Genealogy Online compares all publications with each other. This is how you find other researchers who are working on the same family.

Where do I find them?

Log in and go to Matches. For each person you can see in which other publication he or she appears. With the comparison window you put both persons side by side. You can then see whether the data agrees, and whether the other person knows more than you.

Are there new matches? Then you will get an e-mail. You can set this in your e-mail preferences.

What can I do with them?

• Compare the data and add to your own family tree.
• Contact the other author. You can do this via the contact form in his or her publication.
• Mark a match as viewed or as correct. This helps you keep track.
• Is a match wrong? Then you can hide it.

Good to know

Only public data takes part. Data of living persons is never compared. If you have set up an access gate, your publication does not take part.

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