How did it happen? I married my cousin…
Well sort of, you may be interested to know that when I tried the Relative Finder app it told me I was related to my wife. This can be a scary thought but we are sixth cousins. That made me cringe a little when I first heard it until I started thinking about it.
Join my group! name: todayinmyfamily password: 123tyler
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Relative Finder is the first of several apps that I am going to share with you that connects to a familysearch.org to see how you are related to people who are living. My account on Family Search is filled out very well and so is Sharlee’s (my wife). The app pulls in the data from the tree on Family Search and compares it to the other person’s tree. The first place that they cross is shown in the app.
When you first log in to the Relative Finder app you will first be asked to log in to your Family Search account. Once you log in it will then download all the necessary data from your tree. It will then take you to the page where it will list all the groups you can participate in on the left and list people in your family down the middle and how you are related to them.
Do you want to know how you are related to a president, prophet, or a famous American? You can check the different options on the left in the public section. I found out that I am related to lots of people who were in all of these groups.
To build your own group, look up on the navigation bar at the “groups” button and you can build a group that is password protected. You can then invite your friends to join your group. We shared the invitation to join our group on Facebook in some family groups.
Sharlee first built a group for us and then I joined the group. When it finds you are related to someone in the group it sorts the people from closest relative to most distant relative and won’t show the people in the group that it can’t find a connection to.
Have fun inviting your friends to your groups and if you want to try it out go here.
Join my group! name: todayinmyfamily password: 123tyler
Comment below on how we are related!
