 CousinConnect
Notification Service
CousinConnect can send you an e-mail notifying you whenever a new genealogy
query, matching your parameters, gets added to the website.
This feature is the first of its kind for any of the genealogy query
boards and servers. You determine what kinds of queries (surname, region,
or both) that you are interested in. Whenver someone adds a new query
to CousinConnect, that matches the parameters you are interested in, we
will notify you via e-mail.
By having CousinConnect notify you of new queries that match your parameters,
it will allow you to contact other genealogists that share the same interest
as soon as they post their queries. As a submitter, it also means that
as soon as you post a query, other genealogists that share the same interest
will be notified immediately, thus greatly speeding up response time.
For example, if you are interested in reading all queries that include
the surname "ATKINSON", and you want to be notified when another
ATKINSON query gets added to the website, CousinConnect will send you
an e-mail notifying you the day after it gets added. Or, if you are interested
in all queries that get added into Tarrant County, Texas, we will notify
you when that happens. Or if you want to be even more specific, you can
set up a notification for all "ATKINSON" surnames specifically
in Tarrant County, Texas.
You can even decide if you want to be notified for "exact"
surname spellings, "partial" surname spellings, or "soundex"
matches.
How to set up a notification
While you are conducting a surname search, or navigating through the
region pages or surname pages, enter your e-mail address wherever you
see the notification form (as indicated in the screen-shot to the right).
 When
you enter your e-mail address, you will be asked for a password. This
password will allow you to modify your notification(s) in the future.
That's all there is to it!
If you conduct a search, or if you navigate to a page, and there are
no queries displaying on that page, don't worry. You can still set up
a notification. When a query matching that search, or that page, gets
added to the website, we'll notify you about it.
Editing Your Notifications
When you set up a notification, you will be able to modify it at any
time by logging into CousinConnect. You can even "delete" a
notification setup so that CousinConnect stops notifying you.
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