Genealogy Chat

After watching the programme on TV last night about the 2 English queens Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitane, I idly looked up the latter to see how many trees on here she was in (as well as mine).
The answer was 300. However, as I flicked through the list, I found 1 member had 5 PAGES of entries for her, not all identical, sometimes the place of birth was entered slightly differently. So with 20 entries per page, either he has her in his tree 100 times, or has more than 1 tree, or is it just an error by GR?

Having said all that, he might have her in his tree more than once, I could have, but don't. There was a lot of intermarriage in the early royal courts.

Because you can't have the same person more than once in a GR tree then you have to put them in separately if you have them in more than one branch.

If you reckon on 4 generations per century then 500 years before your birth you would have about two million ancestors and 500 years before that a million times that figure. So there will be quite a bit of duplicated ancestors in anyone's tree that goes back that far.

What do you mean ken when you say you can't have the same person more than once in GR tree? If a person is in more than 1 branch, you can just copy them into the correct space.

What I mean is that if someone is on one branch of your tree and also on another branch then you have to input them as two separate people even though their details will be the same. You then need to put a note saying they are the same person, and if you find more details about them you have to put those details in both instances.

In more advanced tree software, hopefully like the new GR tree will be when it is fully developed, you can specify that the one person in one branch is also in the other branch.

Yes, I see now ken, however it's not a huge chore.
I try and avoid putting duplicate people in because they are hard to find again.

Hi GF we are related lol

Carol

I notice that the member with Eleanor of Aquitaine in his tree also has Arthur Pendragon in it several times. Again he is not too sure about the birth data for these King Arthurs.

I think there's a lot of us, carol! Busy people, them lot!

See what you mean, ken!

I am surprised that there only seem to be four trees with genghis/gengis khan in, as he is supposed to be a direct ancestor for a significant percentage of the world's population. :-)

There is a public tree on Ancestry with 360,000 entries that may well be the source of the tree mentioned in the opening post.

So has he got Eleanor of Aquitaine 100 times in this tree, ken?

Yes probably over 200 many with identical information but many with slightly different names and spellings.

Uther Pendragon is there as well. but only twice. Arthur has six instances.