Ann,
I do the same, but use Aldfaer (a dutch geanealogyprogram) to enter the
data; I export this in gedcom format and import in Legacy because Legacy is
good in finding multipels of the same person. Guido
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From: "Anne Hildrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 1:06 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Huge files was Criteria you use to add an individual to
Legacy?
I have personally entered everyone into my database. Never taken in any
GEDCOMS or other files. Not always because I didn't trust who I got it
from,
but because I wanted to get a feel for everybody myself and also check if
there
were someone I already had in my database.I do work quite closely with
several relatives on different sides of the family, and we do update each
other.
I do wonder somtimes though when everybody says they have checked
everything,
are we expecting our children to do the same all over again? The family
book made by
different branches of the family that was my start on it all, back in
1979, I took at
face value. I have found out more than they did, but so far what they
found out
matches mine on what I have looked into. Have I rechecked every little bit
of it myself,
no I haven't.
I was just trying to explain how I came about having a huge file. I do
however, wonder
why it is such a big deal to others how large other's family files are.
Personally I
couldn't care less the size of others files are, or how well documented
they are. Whether people
have 500 or 1.000.000 people in it, what is it to me. Some people are only
interrested in
direct ancestors and descendants, others will may be add siblings and
their wifes along the way,
while others again will enter anybody they are related to, and me who
enters all the information from the
bygdebooks for the many communities in the area I am interrested in where
they have those. I
often find errors or omissions and constantly go through my file to check
against churchrecords
when available, censues and what other material I can find. Are everybody
in my file well documented,
not by a long shot. Quite a few of them are of little interrest to me
except they lived in the area, but
who knows further down the road, they may become of interrest, but I
haven't yet discovered the connection.
There are good reasons for people having few people in their files and
there are good reasons for having
many.
Anne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Templeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Criteria you use to add an individual to Legacy?
Ann,
The issue for many of us who see people relate these huge files is in
understanding how they came to be. There are certainly cases where
someone who has been consistently working for many years will have a well
documented database of tens of thousands of names. Hopefully you are one
of those. But for everyone like that there are probably 9 (more likely
99) more who have simply appropriated thousands and thousands of names
from other sources (such as the Ancestral File) without a shred of
independent research to verify anything. Real research takes time, such
as writing for vital records, scrolling through microfilm pages,
traveling to libraries, etc.
When you think about it, if someone works at genealogy like a full-time
job, at 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year for 20 years they have worked a
total of 41,600 hours. So to get a 120,000 name database they had to
*average* finding, documenting, and data entry of 3 names per hour. Now I
know that sometimes I stumble upon some large family groups, but then
there are the MANY times I have spent all day traipsing around a
graveyard, or reading microfilms, etc and come up empty. I certainly have
not averaged 3 names per hour over the years. Then there is the fact that
most of us, even those retired, probably are not actually spending a
consistent 8 hours a day on genealogy, so the "find rate" has to be even
higher than 3 NPH to accumulate those kinds of numbers.
So, when people say they have 150,000 or 250,000 names, our skepticism is
not with the *existence* of these large databases, it is with their
quality. Only you can judge the quality of your research. If you know in
your heart of hearts that it is not junk genealogy then there is no
reason to take offence when someone expresses a *general* scepticism
about these huge databases.
Gary Templeman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Hildrum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:55 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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