Relative Finder - Cardston's Fallen Heroes

Relative Finder - Cardston's Fallen Heroes

More than Heroes—They're Family

They paid the supreme sacrifice, but they were more than just soldiers—they were sons, brothers, cousins, some were even husbands and fathers. Many of them have well documented genealogies. You may not know it, but you might be related.

The Town of Cardston has tracked down the genealogy records for all of Cardston's Fallen Heroes using the worlds largest free online genealogy website—Family Search—and have created a new community group on Relative Finder. Relative Finder is a Family Search compatible solution that can search your family tree to find common ancestors. If you have a free Family Search account, you can login and see which fallen heroes you’re related to in the “Cardston’s Fallen Heroes” Community Group.

Are you related to our fallen heroes?

About Relative Finder

Relative finder is an application developed by the Brigham Young University Family History Technology Lab. It integrates with familysearch.org to allow you to see how you are related to historical figures, or famous celebrities. It can also be used to create custom groups to see how you are related to friends or co-workers. The Town of Cardston has created a new group on Relative Finder titled, "Cardston's Fallen Heroes". It contains the records of all those whose names are on honour roll of the Town of Cardston: those brave men from Cardston and area who gave their lives in the first and second world wars.

About Family Search

Family Search is the second largest genealogy website in the world, but it's the largest free site. In order to see if you're related to any of Cardston's Fallen Heroes, you will need a Family Search account. If you don't already have an account, you can create one for free on familysearch.org. You will have to populate your family tree before you can use Relative Finder. 

Cardston's Fallen Heroes Community Group

To view the group, you can search for it on relative finder (scroll down for details), or you can click the button below: 

Cardston's Fallen Heroes 

(*External link: https://www.relativefinder.org/#/view/229179 You must be logged in to relative finder first for the link to work. Click the link to open Relative Finder in a new window, login, then come back to this window and click the link again.)

How to find the Cardston's Fallen Hereos group on Relative Finder

1. Go to relativefinder.org and log in using your family search account.