How popular are your surnames and how many cousins have you collected?

[dawnyj]

I've collected about 40 dead ones today alone thanks to ancestry but in recent years only about 4 living ones.  My greatest joy was making contact with a second cousin in Ontario via the net after trying to locate my family that went out to Canada at the turn of the last century.  Still would be nice to find marchlenskis, more russells and mallaires ... the Mallaires went to Ohio and have been very difficult to trace.. Any decendents of Annie Mallaire nee Russell, Gladys Marchlensky, Nelly Woodward (settled in Hamilton / York) Toronto , John or Fred Russell ( settled in Montreal)are welcome to contact me!!

[clayton bradley]

I have collected 50 or 60 (live) cousins, mostly from my side rather than my husband's, although one wonderful contact on his side was from Genes Reunited. Otherwise I didn't find GR much use. I have had one contact on Lost Cousins although I think it is a great site and always recommend it to people, not least for the newsletter. Most of my contacts have come from the trees on Ancestry and most are on my maternal side. My latest but one contact, whose 5xggmother's brother married my 4xggfather's sister, turned out to live in the same town, which was a surprise. I love getting new information. Everyone has something valuable, claytonbradley

[Jool]

I have had contact with few distant cousins in my research, but none with my own surname, there are oodles of them in my tree and they have lived in my home town since God's dog was a puppy, not one 

[LouisaS]

The Langley's on my fathers side has loads of relations on Genes and as for Green family mostly from Cheltenham, mothers side, once again loads of relies.
I put  my Husband's family on ancestry, all from northern Ireland.
louisaS

[Shirleyjjj]

found about 5 cousins in America and Canada - we help one another on different aspects of the tree - i was sending my cousin some of the relationships i have in my tree for eg -

wife of 1st cousin 1x removed of husband of 2nd great grand aunt
 
sounds a stretch but thats because my great grand aunt married a cousin and when i delete the relationship the above relative is different and becomes a  cousin instead

I correspond via e mail most days with my cousin - our gr gr granfathers were brothers in 1793 - i have had an article printed in the local paper to see if there were any more local people with the same name who were researchig but had no replies - i think we are 3rd cousins - it has been a wonderful experience for both of us to share the info as we have a lot in common - i have been locating graves and sending them to her but couldnt find the exact ones for her side of the family that she needed (i think there are a lot of damaged graves)

[rosie17]

I have found 3rd cousins in Canada ,South Dakota and various places in USA with a lot of help from rootschat and ancestry ....don't find Genes Reunited much help ...

[jbml]

I have a distant cousin here on RC.

We've not yet figured out the exact relationship, but we've exchanged a fair amount of information on our common ancestors. I think we're probably of the order of 4th cousins once removed, but it might be closer.

I've made contact, through genealogical sources, with a number of other distant cousins in Wiltshire, the United States, Canada and Ireland.

Most entertaining, however, is the discovery that a large chunk of my family was originally (and unexpectedly) from the very area where I grew up and went to school; and the list of my family names from that part of the country reads EXACTLY like a roll-call of my classmates. I must have been at school with a LOT of distant cousins, without knowing it!

[IgorStrav]

I've found a number of cousins of various degrees of relationship from Ancestry, and a couple here too - a thread on a particularly tricky family turned up a number of struggling family historians all trying to sort out the tangle - and I am in touch with several on Facebook, and otherwise via the research.

But I'm always hoping to find a cousin with a cache of stories or photographs which will enable me to resolve some of my brick walls, and not much luck with that, yet! 

[a-l]

I haven't had any luck at all , nobody replies lol.