Genealogy Chat

Marie from OZ.
Hi all , I have an earlier Post and since then I have been unable to view several trees all over1,000relatives???
So I sent an email to G.U. and they kindly answered yesterday saying that they were working on the Problem and thanking me for my Query.
It's not possible for all of us to source our information from the internet, I rely very much on Information from people willing to let me view their trees and to share their soucers this way i have come in contact with a large number of relatives also I have made friends with a number of people who have been prepared to look thing up for me even though the relative I 'm looking for doesnt belong to then.I will also add that I have not asked for this help they have freely offered to help For which I am very greatfull.
I will now climb down from my soap box.
Regards to you all. Marie from OZ.

Mary-I totally agree with you ,I also have less than 300 on my tree ,but most of what I have is confirmed and photographed and I will keep on working on it as long as I am able .

I have less than 300 but have only been doing it for 3 years. I have only sourced just over a quarter as it is such a long and expensive job, but I don't want any more until I am completely happy that they are all mine and I know who they are.
All information, LD cannot be found on the internet, (if only) and I have had some amazing help from members here. I have been able to give info back so it has been satisfactory for all. Unfortunately I am a long way from my ancesters home turf and 'popping' into the local records office or the churchyard is not an option.
I don't think I will be around long enough to have a tree of a few thousand, will leave that to my decendants LOL

I no longer allow access to my tree. The information I have on there I found on the internet, and there is no reason why anybody else can't find the same. After all isn't the fun part of Genealogy looking for and finding somebody ?!

Thank you all for your imput which made very interesting reading. Still cant imagine how I would cope 1000 plus names. I began searching for direct blood line but if mine is to grow.......someone mentioned Width,................back to more trawling then.
Be lucky

Marie from oz.
I have been invited to view many trees in the last 12 months some of them have been Huge, I have found with most it is impossible to find the names you want and also the film always stops, then I get this note on screen that says there is an error, so I give up as it has taken so long to start ,I could have gone away and had a meal before it was ready to view. .I wish it would say how many relatives were on this particular tree before they down load it as i would rather not view trees that are so large.
I dont really like complaining as I am happy with Genes Reunited and every one is so helphfull especially all the members who give of their time to help others Regards to all Marie.

I always remember when I first started some five years ago now someone sent me their Tree with 1300 names on it.I thought at the time it was huge!Now I've got over 5300 myself,although I strongly suspect the very large ones are as a result of people merging Trees with someone else.As far as my own Tree is concerned I have only merged thirty people in this way,and all those are directly connected to ancestors.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

I know what you mean Kate. I remember getting so fascinated by my OH's cousin's 3 x gr grandmother - who had one child before her first marriage, then married twice more, then died aged 42 - and I still cannot decide whether or not she had a hard life! But part of the fun is untangling those marriages and all the strands of a life like hers. (Even though she's not one of my relatives!) OH's cousin was suitably impressed by her as well so it made it all worth while!

I suppose not Sue - but that's the way I work so that's the way I think others work ... I have managed (so far) to keep the paperwork out of the dining room and the bathroom and the kitchen. But, there are bits everywhere else!

I think the details help make it more memorable. I've been over the church records and now I think of 4xgreat grandad George Hurst as "the serial godparent" (honestly, every other baptism involving his relatives . . . there he is as godfather!).

I remember feeling very stunned when I looked at a transcription of some burial records thinking "got you!" when I found a distant relative - only to feel very odd when I scrolled across the page and saw "hung herself" in the notes. (And another little boy in another parish record whose burial record noted "casually drowned" - I think casually means accidentally here.)

I don't think of great-great-great grandad Willday as just "Edward", I think of him as "Edward Willday, dodgy accountant, convict and chicken stealer"! (But also as the man who registered his own son-in-law's death, and someone whose niece bled to death after childbirth.)

Having the extra bits adds colour and help you remember who they are and where they go in the family tree. And there are lots of stories if you know where to look, or who to ask.

Jill,

That person can't possibly have supporting paperwork...lol

I know exactly what you mean about the house, I file mine when we can't actually see any of the dining table :-))

Sue

I have just over 1,000 names on my tree however to make it easier I have split it down to 3 main trees.As others have said I try to get to know these people where they lived what they did etc.
Ian

68,000? No!

The paperwork for my lot is taking over the house and OH is threatening to divorce me - how on earth would you cope with that lot? Doesn't bear thinking about!

And don't you just love the ones who are really badly behaved and manage to get into the papers one way or another? I'm thinking of my bigamist and my suicide at the moment (two completely different men by the way). That really adds interest.

Jill

I had a tree opened to me with >68,000 names...lol

I have 370 on my tree on another site but only researched 230 odd properly. That has taken me 3 years!

Sue

Oh - and like Harswell I know them. I may not have every detail of all their siblings, but I have lots of info on direct lines - all of them!

I have about 1,000 on mine. But, these include my tree - all branches, my OH's tree - all branches, my son's tree (ex-husband's) only just started on that one, a cousin of my OH (the other side of my OH's tree) and an aunty of my OH (who became interested after seeing what I'd produced for OH's mum and her brother - aunty's husband).

So mine's a wide tree and most of it only goes back to about 1800 at the most. Bits go back a bit further but not much.

I'm also doing a One Name Study but I don't put those on here.

Jill

I had on very large tree of someone who has all of my Ancestors down to details of my living relations AND myself but when I enquired how he fitted in to my tree he said we are connected through Mary ^^^^ in 1657 , incidentally there is no such person in my tree

One tree my family is on (but not on Genes Reunited) had 150,000 on it the last time I looked some months ago.

Checking a hot match on this board, I found it hard to work out the relationship of the owner of the tree, to the person we had in common, (my great great grandfather).

. So I queried, as I find the trees hard to navigate.

The owner said, my tree has grown so much lately that I cannot tell you what relationship the person is to me.

Well I find it difficult to manage 1000 at present until I have more experience but I have been given permission to view a tree with no less than 35.000 on it , can these all be genuine ?