Matching Service allows you to correspond with other researchers who are looking at the same records as you. If two people are signed up for the Matching Service, and one views a record (census or parish record) that the other person has already viewed, both people are notified by email, and each is given the other's email address.

• By signing up for the matching service, you agree to have your email address sent to others who have purchased the same record, and to potentially receive emails from those same customers.
• Only records that have been purchased qualify for the matching service. Records that appear in search results but are not purchased are not checked for matches.
• Matches will be checked for approximately daily, but an individual person is not likely to be inundated with emails. The more records you have bought, the more likelihood you have of a possible match with another researcher.
• Once you sign up and your initial match report is generated, only the records you view after that date will be checked for matches, to avoid notifying you repeatedly of the same set of matches.
• You can remove yourself from the Matching Service at any time by logging in and changing your Account Settings (click My Account and clear the Match My Records checkbox). After that, your records will not be checked for matches against other researchers, until you sign up again for the service, at which point all records you have purchased since the date of your last match report will be checked against other researchers.

The goal of the Matching Service is to allow people to know who else is working on the same families, so they can collaborate, further extend their research efforts, and perhaps make contact with distant and previously unknown relatives.

Your e-mail address will never be sold by us, and, except for your voluntary participation in the Matching Service as described above, your email address will not be shared with anyone, per our Privacy Policy.