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Discussion in 'How to decide who to enter' started by Red Dragon, May 10, 2013.

  1. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Perhaps time to revisit your My Ancestors page - you must surely have discovered some new branches in the past few years? The new GRO birth indexes make it so much easier to track female relatives after 1837.
     
  2. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 32 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 2,554 new entries have been added and
    • -237 relatives have been matched.
    A very steady set of numbers this week.

    Peter do you know how many matches you cleared from that test account? I can then update the entries.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-3-22_10-5-51.png
     
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  3. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    There were about 460 matched entries.
     
  4. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 39 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 4,350 new entries have been added and
    • 265 relatives have been matched.
    All numbers up this week. A great set of numbers and look at all those new entries and relatives matched!

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-3-29_10-35-42.png
     
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  5. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 57 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 13,061 new entries have been added and
    • 78 relatives have been matched.

    Always good to see New Members joining. Lots of new entries so good work by the members. Surprising low number of matches, don't know if someone has closed an account but would have expected matches to be a lot higher.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-4-5_11-51-6.png
     
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  6. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Well over half of the entries were from the US 1940 census - which is so new that there might not have been any matches at all. Fewer than 10% of the matches were from the 1881 Census, which produces 90% of all matches.
     
  7. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member

    It's good that we're expanding into the US Censuses, it should please some members.
     
  8. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 60 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 1,312 new entries have been added and
    • 92 relatives have been matched.
    Always good to see New Members joining. All numbers up this week apart from New Entries. Ratio of new entries to matches was 14.26, so roughly on average every 14th person added made a new match.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-4-12_13-37-51.png
     
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  9. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 78 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 5,799 new entries have been added and
    • 82 relatives have been matched.
    New Members and Relatives added up this week. But again a surprisingly small number of relatives matched. Maybe another batch of US relatives have been added?

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
     
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  10. Katie Bee

    Katie Bee LostCousins Member

    Hi Red - sorry I can't see the graph.
    Are you in a rush to get out into the lovely sunny weather?
    Isn't it gorgeous?
    K
     
  11. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Katie, Was just seeing if anyone actually read the posts :).

    Profuse apologies. Prepared the numbers earlier, rushed out, came back and then just posted without copying the graph. Please find the graph here:
    upload_2019-4-19_17-41-43.png
     
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  12. Liberty

    Liberty LostCousins Megastar

    OF COURSE we read them, Red Dragon!!!
     
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  13. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 143 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 11,306 new entries have been added and
    • 472 relatives have been matched.
    All numbers up this week, great to see new members joining and a great increase in new entries.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-4-26_10-39-59.png
     
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  14. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Only 4 and a half days left to win an Ancestry DNA test for yourself or your cousin!
     
  15. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 34 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 5,833 new entries have been added and
    • 372 relatives have been matched.
    All numbers down this week but not surprising as Peter's Competition has just finished. But still a great set of numbers and look at all those new entries and relatives matched!

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-5-3_11-46-56.png
     
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  16. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 34 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 6,134 new entries have been added and
    • 151 relatives have been matched.
    A quietish week this week, new members remained the same, new entries are up and relatives matched were down. But still a lovely set of numbers and new entries are continuing to be added, which is good for all of us.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-5-10_10-15-28.png
     
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  17. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 13 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 1,023 new entries have been added and
    • 60 relatives have been matched.
    All numbers down this week, but it's always good to see New Members joining and new entries being added. It's the middle of May and the weather is struggling to throw off Spring and welcome in a beautiful Summer. Hopefully some hotter weather can return for the weekend.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-5-17_10-13-30.png
     
    • Thanks! Thanks! x 1
  18. Red Dragon

    Red Dragon LostCousins Megastar

    Hi Everyone!

    Here's a weekly update on how well people have been doing over at LostCousins.
    • 34 new members joined the LostCousins site
    • 4,402 new entries have been added and
    • 190 relatives have been matched.

    Always good to see New Members joining. Lots of new entries so good work by the members. All numbers up on last week so that's very encouraging.

    New Members mean New Entries, and New Entries mean New Matches. Everyone wins.

    Good Luck Everyone!

    Here's a graph showing the activity over at the Lost Cousins site
    upload_2019-5-24_11-12-3.png
     
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  19. peter

    peter Administrator Staff Member

    Let's see if the next newsletter sparks a further increase!
     
  20. Bryman

    Bryman LostCousins Megastar

    Sorry, I have not been very active recently in adding census references as I have been rather busy absorbing the details of a mountain of relatives uncovered by a DNA match.

    My 2G GF was captain of a ship which came to NZ over 150 years ago. He was father to a single daughter born in Napier who later married and gave rise to a few blood relatives that I have just been told about by a 2nd cousin identified by the DNA match. There are now over 90 of my 3rd cousins living in NZ who are descendants of that one child !!

    The cost of sending birthday and Christmas cards is likely to bankrupt me.
     
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