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Viewing enormous trees
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Gee | Report | 24 Mar 2009 15:25 |
MGHS |
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Diann | Report | 24 Mar 2009 12:36 |
Many thanks to those of you have replied on this matter. Yes, I can see that contacting the person and asking for info is the best way and not to go trawling thro many thousands of names. |
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Gee | Report | 24 Mar 2009 11:06 |
Richard |
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Richard | Report | 24 Mar 2009 10:27 |
I've been doing my tree for three years. I have approximately 3,300 names. I have spent hundreds of hours hard work and research on it, at times literally blood, sweat and toil and of course much money spent on the way. |
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Tom | Report | 24 Mar 2009 01:43 |
The main thing is to make contact and ask for sources. Lots of people, including me, use other websites/programmes for the details of their trees and only put the basic information on GR in the hope of getting information about missing branches. |
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Madmeg | Report | 24 Mar 2009 00:37 |
Hi this is a different Margaret again, but I have been searching for 3 years, and am up to about 1800 names, and that includes the tree of my cousin's husband which I did as a birthday present for her, and of my daughter's fiance, yet to be married, so basically three families, not one. And there are still lot of people in there that I am not 100% certain off. I would be definitely wary of anyone with more that 5,000, and even that is going some. |
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Diann | Report | 23 Mar 2009 19:47 |
Hi Margaret - it was good to have your views on this. I have just been back and looked at the trees I have access to and the other high numbers are 6,324, 6,964 and 11,740. I've only been tracing my tree for a few months and have reached 71 so don't know what to make of such an enormous tree. |
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Madmeg | Report | 22 Mar 2009 22:48 |
Diann |
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Diann | Report | 22 Mar 2009 21:09 |
Thanks Leclerc and Tracey - I have now discovered how to do what I wanted. Will not bother wasting a lot of time time trying to search someone else's huge tree again. Have also just realised that the person concerned had taken info off my tree anyway and the computer had matched us. |
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Redharissa | Report | 22 Mar 2009 12:41 |
You need to make sure that you click on Immediate Family View. Full Tree views NEVER work for larger trees - mine started to fail when my tree had only 200 names. |
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Leclerc | Report | 22 Mar 2009 10:21 |
There is a search facility on all trees, put in your rellies name and when it comes up you can choose to see their decendants or ancestors |
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Diann | Report | 22 Mar 2009 10:06 |
On several occasions I have received a hot match from a member with 86,000+ (yes, that is correct) relatives on her tree. Is it really worthwhile to attempt to trawl thro a tree this size as I would like to see some of my ancestors which she obviously has? Also. I have left the computer on for over 30 mins but this is still not long enough to download. |