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How I have identified records to add to my Lost Cousins

Discussion in 'Advanced techniques for experienced users' started by AdrienneQ, May 15, 2013.

  1. AdrienneQ

    AdrienneQ Moderator Staff Member

    I thought I had done quite well with the 132 entries I have on Lost Cousins .
    I had followed my blood lines in FTM and then entered any Census records I found, this had given me 3 contacts.
    Since joining the Forum I have come across Alexanders program FTAnalyer for investigating your GEDCOM file. As this program is still in a Beta state I did some testing and he was very helpful in making a couple of tweaks to return a better set of data.
    The program produces lists of people who have s Census records for you to enter in Lost cousins.
    There is a method of excluding those who you have a already entered, to do this in FTM you go to Edit>>Manage Facts and add a Label "Lost Cousins". You then add this to all the people you have already entered by (In a couple of cases this means 3 entries for 1841, 1881 and 1911).
    After doing this preparation work I produced a new GEDCOM and found another 232 records for me to enter. I will let you know if I get any more matches. screen_2013-05-15 07.36.52.jpg
     
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  2. Tim

    Tim Megastar and Moderator Staff Member


    So how did you get on Adrienne? 125 people in the 1881 census, did you get lucky? :cool:
     

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