Many are worried about the Auto / Smart Matching with MH. To turn this function off use:
Options/Customise/8.View/8.13/Select Background HInts/ here check or uncheck MyHeritage and/or FamilySearch Here is an explanation obtained from the "Read about MyHeritage´s living matches" button: *MyHeritage Hints for Living People* When Smart Matching™ and Record Matching are enabled within Legacy Family Tree, information from small parts of your family tree are periodically passed, 'behind the scenes' and without you having to do anything, to a matching service on the MyHeritage website. This information includes names, dates and places associated with individuals and their close relatives. MyHeritage uses this data to find extremely accurate Smart Matches and Record Matches for the relevant individuals. *Legacy information sent to MyHeritage for hinting is never collected, stored or used. After matching it is discarded.* There is a privacy policy specifically guaranteeing that (click here to read it <http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/matches-for-partners-privacy-policy.php?partner=61b1b983a59a7327aed9ddb85d37b17f>). *The Legacy user's data privacy is protected.* *Matching on Living People* Matching on living people can locate trees and other users who own them who are related to you as close or distant cousins, and exchanging information with them about their ancestors (who are also your ancestors) could reveal valuable information not received through hints (because some ancestors could be missing in your tree, thus you cannot get hints on them, but you can learn about them through hints with living relatives). Matching on living people typically doubles the amount of matches that people get. Without such matches people will not find living relatives they are sometimes desperately looking for (e.g. adopted people who know the names of their biological family members and are looking for them). Some people enjoy life-changing discoveries (give examples) as a result of matching with living people in their tree. One of the happiest moments possible in genealogy is the excitement of reuniting with family members who are ALIVE. Genealogy and family history are not just about dead people. They are also about the living. For those reasons there is no reason whatsoever to turn off hinting for living people. No information of the Legacy user is breached. It's like having an ostrich bury its head in the sand, pretending that information that is out there (outside the user's tree doesn't exist). If people have an online tree on MyHeritage, and don't want to have that tree matched with other users on MyHeritage (or specifically with trees of MyHeritage partners such as Legacy) they can turn that off in their privacy settings on MyHeritage, about which you have blogged recently. So the option to collect hints on living people is for the direct benefit of the users and MyHeritage gains nothing from this except giving users more matches that could be relevant for their research. Some users are quick to dismiss the value from such matches but it is plentiful. For a start, a person not marked as dead in the user's tree could by now be really dead and MyHeritage might be able to discover this, for example by matching that person with his/her BillionGraves gravestone record (which, by the way, is FREE and does not require a Data subscription on MyHeritage). Another point is that Smart Matches on living people could lead the way to connecting with distant cousins (second cousins, third cousins, etc) who own trees on MyHeritage. Those cousins share ancestors with the user and might have in their trees information about shared ancestors that the Legacy family tree user doesn't have in his/her tree at all. So users will lose at least half the value of hinting if they turn off hinting for living people, and they will gain no benefit whatsoever in doing so. Their privacy is not affected negatively when such hinting takes place.
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