This group is pretty picky about staying "on topic" but I'm happy to respond :-) I record everyone and that includes married lines too. You'd be surprised what sort of connections show up! Plus, researching collateral lines often leads back to your main line helping you to break down some brick walls.
Keep recording everything and everyone; you can set your Legacy file to show the relationships between you and the people in your file so you can see at a glance how you are related. If you are truly only interested in certain branches, you can Tag them separately or use other Legacy report features to separate them for your purposes. Remember this work is intended to be shared, particularly with your posterity, and they might be very interested in every relationship. Kathy On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Scott Hall <seh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > A question not directly related to Legacy, but one I'm curious about. > > At what point do you stop recording relationships? > > For example, my suname is Hall. I'm inclined to record all Hall's I > find becuase it is my surname. So, I'd record the > son-of-the-son-of-the-son of my great-grandfather (my second cousin), > but question whether I want to record the > daughter-of-the-daughter-of-the-daughter of my great-grandfather, even > though she is also my second cousin. Why? Because of the surname > change. While the first example remains Hall, in the second example, > Hall becomes, say Smith, becomes, say Jones, becomes Brown -- three > surnames away from the core surname. > > So what do you do? Do you record all relatives -- all cousins? Do > you only record certain surnames? When do you stop? > > Thanks for your thoughts > > Scott > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp> > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
