Lost Cousins?

Question:Why are not more people using this wonderful web site.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Why are not more people using this wonderful web site.

I had never heard of it before. Thanks for the tip.

After taking a look, I was quite impressed. What a great idea. This site IS different in that it focus on one census - the 1880 or 1881, depending on which country, US, Canada, etc. It is very easy to participate and enter your information based on 1880/81 census transcriptions at Familysearch.org. You enter some brief information about your families in the census and hope for a connection. I plan on entering my husband's family as well.
The goal is to connect with new "cousins" or people researching the same people in the 1880/1881.
I like it because it is not time consuming and no uploading etc.

Because in modern society, people have been set adrift due to wars, famines, floods, people emigrating and immigrating; social mores changing; the whole nine yards. Because people have lost their identity, their social consciousness and all that, they are trying to find their identity. This means connecting to the past; the best way to connect to the past (unless you have a time machine) is to discover your ahnentafel, your family tree.

well, for analogy purposes... if I am the only child of an only child, of an only child... I would not have cousins.
It's fine to network with other persons, working on the same family. If none exist, you still would have to use reliable historical records.
There are tons of sites out there (ancestry, rootsweb, genforum) where you can locate persons working on the same line. This site offers nothing new.

I've used it quite a lot and found branches and twigs and twiglets which have helped to add more flesh to the skeleton of both our Family Trees.
It has also sorted out a few problems - still waiting for the ultimate cousins from my Convict. William Colley, in the Wellington Valley, but I keep hoping he found the girl of his dreams out there in Oz! I don't suppose he was allowed to keep the ￡200 he stole back in 1829 (that's as exciting as finding you have a Ronnie Biggs in the family!)