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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 49 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 3,351 new entries have been added and
  • 91 relatives have been matched.
All numbers are good, lots of new entries and people making matches.

Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 61 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 4,305 new entries have been added and
  • 167 relatives have been matched.
All numbers are up from last week, which is always good to report.

YTD, 167,450 relatives have been added and 8,228 matches have been made.

Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 63 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 3,889 new entries have been added and
  • 483 relatives have been matched.
A good set of numbers for this week. New entries slightly down, but matches have shot up!

The ratio between new entries and matches is 8.05, which means that every 8th ancestor added produced a match! Were you lucky? Did you make a match?

Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Thanks Red, I also noticed my Match Potential has increased, which is surely a result of all the new entries that members have been making recently.

Thanks to all!
 
Well done, Tim! Everyone else's Match Potential has also gone up.... everyone, that is, except for those lazy so-and-sos who aren't prepared to spend even a few minutes searching for cousins.
 
Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 59 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 3,426 new entries have been added and
  • 138 relatives have been matched.
A nice set of numbers, new entries has been over 3,000 all year which is very encouraging.
New members are still joining so we can expect to see more entries soon. If these are your contacts who have joined, make sure you tell them about FTAnalyzer, which is free and can be used to identify and provide the info that you need to enter at the Lost Cousins site.

Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 213 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 7,620 new entries have been added and
  • 489 relatives have been matched.
These are for the last 3 weeks.

Numbers continue to increase, a lot of good effort and people continue to see the benefits and make new matches.


Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 50 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 1,940 new entries have been added and
  • 50 relatives have been matched.
Happy Easter!

A slow week, but members continue to join and so we can expect entries to continue to be added.

Who knows, with the long weekend then maybe we'll see a spike next week?


Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 95 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 5,588 new entries have been added and
  • 253 relatives have been matched.
A great set of numbers for this week. Just realised that this didn't get published last week, so apologies.

And we did get a spike!!

Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 56 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 1,896 new entries have been added and
  • 127 relatives have been matched

A slow week, but members continue to join and so we can expect entries to continue to be added.


Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 73 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 2,241 new entries have been added and
  • 92 relatives have been matched

New members are up, which always bodes well. And new entries up as well.


Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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Hi Everyone!

Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
  • 82 new members joined the LostCousins site
  • 2,849 new entries have been added and
  • 97 relatives have been matched.
A nice set of numbers, and all numbers up on last week.
New members are still joining so we can expect to see more entries soon. If these are your contacts who have joined, make sure you tell them about FTAnalyzer, which is free and can be used to identify and provide the info that you need to enter at the Lost Cousins site. And I read on the forums that this program is mentioned in courses run on Genealogy. Try it now, go on!!

Good Luck Everyone!

Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site.
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The numbers would have been even better if Ms Grumpy hadn't left and taken her 173 relatives with her!
 
peter said:
Don't know, but she certainly won't find any cousins now!
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That's a sweeping statement Peter. I've never found a cousin through your site but only last week was contacted by one I knew nothing about through Ancestry. That contact has led to a further cousin discovery.
 
Norman, I'm sure you know what I meant. We've all found cousins through other routes - LostCousins clearly can't find every cousin because we only have 102,000 members. However the vast majority of connections made are between people who hadn't connected previously - I know this because members are asked to indicate this on their My Cousins page.

You may well be right in saying that you haven't found any new cousins yet, however there is a cousin on your My Ancestors page with a ? symbol alongside (ie you haven't yet indicated whether it's a new connection or someone you already knew). There are also three other matches with relatives who you definitely didn't know before - but they aren't shown as cousins, because they're only related to you by marriage.

It's worth reminding all forum members that LostCousins is the only site where it's easy to identify which of the people you're matched with share your ancestors, and which ones don't (it's all on the My Contact page). You can also be fairly certain that a match is correct, partly because the matching system has never produced an erroneous match, but mainly because LostCousins members are much more experienced - on average - than the people you'll find at other sites.
 
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