Genealogy Web Sites Review

Let's pick a few of the many, many, genealogy websites and shine a little sunlight on their effectiveness.  How valuable are they?  Should you incorporate this website into your "favorite's" folder?!  Are they "free" to use?  We love free! 

• Relative Finder:  Brigham Young University Research Page.  
• Originally created for the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are looking to find out which (if any) of their ancestors were members of their faith.
• This site has been enhanced and updated to include how you are related to past U.S. Presidents, signers of the U.S. Constitution, European Royalty and more!
• I have utilized this site in the past and recently checked again to review for any updated information.  I think that this site is a candidate for a "fun" way to consider your family's possible links. 
• You have to sign into this site via your FamilySearch.org account.  The familysearch account is free to everyone, so just there is no reason not to have that site in your family history tool bag!
• This site (Relative Finder) is primarily for those that have already uploaded their family tree information to the FamilySearch site
• After picking which categories I was interested in (entertainers, authors and poets, and folks from the science/technology field), I learned that Johnny Cash is my tenth cousin.  Whoopee! When you click on his name, a family chart for Mr. Cash pops up.  This chart is generated by the information that familysearch.org currently has access to.  It may or may not be relevant or strictly correct.  However, this chart can be utilized to give you ideas for research and names or relations  that you may recognize! 
  
  I discovered, from this chart, that my relation to Johnny Cash may be via/through my Tucker line.  Grandma Hall's maiden name was Tucker.  Clicking on an individual takes you to the FamilySearch profile for that person.  When that happens, you are going to look for common denominators between what you know and the information for this individual--you know like that person's other family names, where (location) these folks lived, and what documents/proof/resources are associated with the person.
• Finally, this is a free resource that may or may not prove efficacious in providing you with new information, new avenues for research, or actual connections for your lineage, etc.

This "article" is part of a continuing project of choosing various websites and evaluating their usefulness in finding our kinfolks!