Sharing info on LC site

Its an interesting question.

But I think you need to send her a branch of the tree that's common. Sharing them via LC does not get the family members into her Family Tree. She will have to add them, or if you send the branch as a gedcom, she maybe able to import them into her tree.

Are you talking about a huge number? Maybe you could contact Peter directly?

 

I think the premise of the Lost Cousins site is to facilitate members to talk to each other. I'm not aware of any automated means of sending the census data. Although presumably several people have got the images.

It would be a nice feature although it might take a bit of coding to link the entries in ones tree to the images on FMP or Ancestry. Lost Cousins has the exact census reference after all and it would be a good visual check for the user that the reference entered was correct.

 

Forgive me its been a while since I had a match but I could have sworn the system automatically showed you which of the people in the list were matches and what the relationship was? ie: blood relative, married, employee etc.

 

Unfortunately there is no automatic way to copy your entries to a cousin who is already a member - it's something that can only be done when someone joins (believe me, I pushed the programmer hard on this point - but there were all sorts of complex issues).

However you can make it easier for her by exporting the information on your My Ancestors page to a spreadsheet (start from the 'More detailed' view) - that way the only ones she'll need to look up are the ones where data appears in italics (ie where you've made additions or corrections).

It is absolutely crucial to send referrals to the relatives you already know, rather than allowing them to join independently - a few minutes of your time can save them hours. Yet amazingly more than half of all the active LostCousins members (including many members of this forum) have NEVER used their My Referrals page!!!!

Tip: once you've done a referral to one cousin you can use it as a template to do referrals to others - simply click the family tree symbol.

 

You can also embed the referral code in a link when you publicise Lost Cousins website in other communications eg: when visiting other forums, newsgroups. You can even embed the code in links in any Family Tree Analysis software you write

 

Mentioning tips about LC and the forum in the Newsletter is a good idea. They might have missed something, it not easy to read all the posts here...

Peter's idea is good.

Press the "Show more detail" button, this will open in a new window. Press CTRL+A to highlight all the cells, press CTRL+C to copy all the cells, goto Excel and press CTRL+V to paste the cells.

You can then add filters to remove what you don't want to send, and hey presto, a file with all the details she needs.

 

I thought I'd covered it in my previous newsletter.

 

Not significantly, I'm afraid. Unfortunately the number of members using My Referrals dropped off significantly with the advent of Facebook and other sites that give referrals a bad name (by writing to everyone in your address book), and there seems to be nothing I can do to increase the numbers.

 

I wouldn't recommend publishing any referral code because the system isn't designed to handle multiple registrations using the same code.

You certainly shouldn't do it with a code that begins 'LCR' (a relative referral) because you could get all sorts of unintended results - everyone who uses the code will appear on your My Cousins page whether they are related to you or not, and all the relatives included in the referral will be added to their My Ancestors page, whether (and however) they are related to them or not.

If you want to publish a link that will identify you as the source of new members please use the 'personal link' on your My Summary page - that's what it is designed for.

 

My apologies Peter I hadn't appreciated the difference between the two link types. I was indeed meaning the Personal Link. This is the one I always use.

 

I have emphasised those important points on many occasions, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.