Genealogy Chat

You will eventually come to brickwalls with all your main lines. Then what will you do? Just stop doing your tree? I think you need to add all the little twigs, that's often where contacts come from who will have more info on your main lines. Why not keep two trees, one with all the definates and one with the definates and the probables? P.S. Jenny, whats that challege thingy with the LDS. I have PAF, can I do that?

Thanks Nell- i am the saame with 'almost correct place rellies. For instance I have Faichens in Hampshire. Believe it or not there are quite a lot lurking there in nearly the right places - mine are bound to be related - but no certain links yet. My recent searches however are pretty sure bets - for instance a distant cousin goodness knows how many times removed with very unusual surname marries - i find children, their marriages and then hey presto I find the husbands family and its almost certain to be right ( but I'm not made of money, so wont get the birth certificate as I normally would) etc... Problem is they are miles away in terms of relationships now - but one ran a pub in Norfolk and had children there. At last someone I can research ! - well they are sort of related.... - and interesting...... Alice

alice, you sound like your at the same stage as me~i too, need to visit far far away record offices to get any further. im also grabbin twigs!!...and i seem to have bled I.G.I dry. im not stopping at a certain point,tho. ill keep going on each branch as far as i can,altho the further back you go the less info you can find anyway!

Jenny , I use Family Treemaker and I 'm not sure I can do that, I'm sure I will have forgotten how correct I thought the info was by next week! My real query though is should I be putting really distant rellies on at all? I can see how some people have a tree of thousands now. Do all the distant rellies detract from the main branches or add to the interest? Alice

Mad Alice Yes, I have people with the 'right' surname lurking in the 'right' area or from the 'right' background, which I can't as yet connect to me. They are in my folders, because you never know when you might find the link. As to whether we should do this or not - firstly its my tree so I can do what I like! and secondly, it rounds out things and gives you a clearer picture if you know for example that while one ancestor was an only child, their spouse was one of 12. nell

I've come to a bit of a brick wall with my searches at present as I need to visit reg. offices in far flung parts of the country in order to find the evidence to get back further with direct descendants, so as I have ancestry I have been finding branches and then - twigs... and with the help of the IGI I find I can go quite a long way back with the twigs! I am not checking info as i would if they were direct ancestors so now I wonder should I add these these to my tree or not? I'd have a real problem working out my relationship to some of them and interesting as they might be - am I diluting the genes so much that it all becomes worthless? Alice

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