Want to connect with kin you never knew you had? American genealogists can now tap into the British networking site LostCousins <www.lostcousins.com>. This pedigree-database-with-a-twist recently expanded its coverage into the United States.

Instead of uploading their GEDCOMs, LostCousins users enter relatives' data from one of four censuses: 1880 US, 1881 Canadian, 1881 Scotland and 1881 England and Wales (all are available free online through FamilySearch <www.familysearch.org>). Then the site searches for others who've entered the same data so the submitters can contact each other.