I would love to have a way to dismiss or "set aside" matches on FF. So many give no information on trees and it makes it very difficult for those who are seriously looking for matches.

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Just wanted to say a little bit about finding families on here. As a newbie, was was very surprised to find so many people who didn't upload their trees. With over 1500 matches for my mom, and 1000 for my dad, I only had maybe 25-50% who uploaded trees. Y-DNA and mtDNA were the problem. I have a large number of 2-3 or 4th cousins, and a number of Y-DNA 50-90cM but am unable to compare families.

If you are really interested in filling in your trees, upload at least 5 generations...

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