Has anyone used Lost Cousins? It's a website with a different approach to genealogy - it finds links between people who share the same relatives in a named census, e.g. UK 1881. They are your 'lost cousins'. You have to enter the data exactly as it has been transcribed (even if you know that there are mistakes) and with full census references. This ensures that everyone who enters data is 'singing from the same hymn sheet'. You can register for free and have a go. Must admit that I was rather sceptical about it all, but it had been recommended to me by two different sources so I decided to give it a try - well, a potential 'lost cousin' was matched from the fourth set of data entered. That has certainly put the feathers in a flutter!

If interested just do a search for Lost Cousins and the site will come up. It's a .com, and is the brainchild of Peter Calver.

Still not sure whether to do anything about this unexpected 'lost cousin'. Off to roost to think about it all.

The Wideeyed Owl