My son calls my tree not a familytree but a nuage of people.
I will, as time permits, rebuild a copy of this nuage in a tree following
this criteria. A call the irst part collection of data, now starts the
selection and building of the familytree. Then adding pictures and so on
(most pointers to sources).
Hopefully a tree will come out or more as one?
I am lucky to have not a nae like 'Brown' but my spouses name 'Kauffmann' is
an other case. Concidering spelling of names, I have for me: Leeten, Leten
and Lethen (found sofar); She has Kauffmann, Kaufman, Kaufman, maybe Koopman
in dutch also. I am lucky to know her roots are from Luxemburg (Altwies)
that limits the nuage.
I will have a hell of a work that will never end.
genealogical greetings, Guido
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Hildrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Criteria you use to add an individual to Legacy?
Hehe, I guess my file is extreemely suspect. Yes I do have thousands in my
family file.
Everybody in it is not related to me, but a great majority is.
We all start differently and do this genealogy stuff different. Is one
better than another,
not in my eyes we have different wishes or goals or wants I guess.
I started out with a family book, wanting to see how I was related to
different people in
it, and later decided I would try to find my ancestors. The problem was I
started with one
community to discover poeple married back and forth between all the
neighbouring communities.
Seeing most of these communities had what we call bygdebooks(farm and
family books) I decided
to enter them all into my file. Poeple I lost in one were refound in
another. Of course there are errors in
them as it might be in my file, because I write a date wrong or something
else. When it comes to my own
family I check censues and churchbooks and what I can find. I also do some
of it when people ask
me for help, so by time more and more gets better researched. Of course
they aren't all researched, but
as time goes by more and more are.
Some says I am just collecting names, I would rather say I am collecting
connections. These people lived on farms,
suddenly some of those might connect to my family, or if not they might
connect to yours.
I have helped lot of people finding their ancestor by the fact that I did
enter all the bygdebooks, sometimes
there are related to me, but other times not. So shame on me for having so
many people in my files,
and making it possible to help others <Smile>
Anne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Herson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Criteria you use to add an individual to Legacy?
Criteria you use to add an individual to Legacy?Far too often, people are
just collecting names and don't really know if the connections are valid.
I'm always suspect about the claims of 10s of thousands of people in
someone's family file ;-)
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Claire Spinelli
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 11:49 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Criteria you use to add an individual to Legacy?
I often read of people who have thousands and thousands of people in
their database. Today I read of one over 100,000. I have trouble
envisioning where all these people come from J I feel like a slouch - my
best branch (paternal grandfather) only has about 400 people in it and I
thought I was doing pretty well. I add direct line ancestors, of course,
their siblings, all spouses and children involved. I also include the
parents of any spouses, though, and generally just make a note of their
siblings. For instance, the wife of my great-uncle would be included, as
would her parents, but that would be the end of her line. (I hope I'm
explaining this so it can be understood.) I read questions about
downloading gedcoms found online. Perhaps I'm not as fortunate as others,
but the gedcoms I've found have only included 3 or 4 people that would be
relevant to me. In that case, I import the gedcom into its own file, and
only enter into my main database the 3 or 4 people. To do otherwise
would, to me, create useless clutter.
Is there something wrong with my thinking?
Claire
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