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Offline MarieC

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Free week at Lost Cousins
« on: Saturday 18 August 07 10:00 BST (UK) »
For all of us who are just freebie members with limited rights - it will be worth logging on and doing a thorough search while we can! 

Happy searching, folks!  (Unfortunately I feel quite certain there won't be any lost cousins waiting for me.  Still, you never know!)

MarieC
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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 18 August 07 10:42 BST (UK) »
Hi MarieC..just had the same email from them,just to let everyone know it finishes on the 27th August,just had 4 1/2 free days on Ancestry,now this offer..christmas has come early 8) ;D

Steve  ;D
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FREE WEEK @ Lost Cousins
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 18 August 07 22:22 BST (UK) »
Lost Cousins is free for a week:

http://www.LostCousins.com

Has anyone actually found any "cousins" through this site?

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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 19 August 07 10:29 BST (UK) »
Quote from: MarieC on Saturday 18 August 07 10:00 BST (UK)
For all of us who are just freebie members with limited rights - it will be worth logging on and doing a thorough search while we can! 

Happy searching, folks!  (Unfortunately I feel quite certain there won't be any lost cousins waiting for me.  Still, you never know!)

MarieC

But can you do a SEARCH of surnames without having to input information first?   As I can't find a Search button!
CAWTHORN, SCOTT & DeSilva PALMER from Cambridgeshire & West Norfolk [and beyond]
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/genealogy/

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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 19 August 07 12:57 BST (UK) »
bitty matriarch,

The way it works is that you have to input all the ancestors and blood relatives that you can who appeared in the relevant census (eg the 1881 census for England and Wales), together with the census references.  Then their computer will match yours with the same ones inputted by someone else - if anyone else has inputted the same people!  You check this by going to your My Cousins page to see if there are any matches or any new contacts.

There is plenty of information about all this on the site.  Have a read!  It's a good idea but you'll only get a match if someone inputs the same people that you do.

MarieC
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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 19 August 07 13:22 BST (UK) »
The trouble is that you could have ancestors or relatives in common with someone else on the site but both parties have to list the common relative. That's okay if you don't have many family members but with large families or large family connection it's a lot of work for a possible match.
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!

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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 19 August 07 13:33 BST (UK) »
It IS a lot of work putting them on there.  But once they are there, they are there for ever - you don't have to do any more.  And as Lost Cousins themselves say, the more people you put on, the more chances you have of getting a match.  And if you DO get a match (which I haven't  :( :'( ), it's immediately clear that it is the same person.  You don't have to do any more to clarify that you are both looking at the same person. 

MarieC
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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 19 August 07 15:46 BST (UK) »
I've been a member for about two years'. All the rellies I can find in 1881 have been entered but i have had no matches whatsoever.
I don't bother with the site any more

dinie
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Re: Free week at Lost Cousins
« Reply #8 on: Monday 20 August 07 01:15 BST (UK) »
I do like the concept of this site. It is easy to use, though time consuming to enter everyone on your tree, and they do (thoughtfully) use the (free) 1881 census as their census of choice, but I do wonder what the odds are of finding a match. It has an American bias too. I think more people have found distant relatives by chance on rootschat.
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