#WEBTREES MULTIPLE TREES TO SAME DATABASE FULL#
In researching two of my families, I identified my husband ‘s many times great grandmother as the full sister of my two recently documented many times great grandmothers (who were also full sisters) so we are also cousins! My husband and I both have cousins who married cousins in our various lines and they will have the same ancestors within a couple of generations. That said, there will always be some duplicates if you go back far enough. The cousins on my Mom’s side have no interest in my Dad’s families, and my cousins on my Dad’s side certainly aren’t interested in my Mom’s families. I can easily send a specific gedcom file to a new cousin without cluttering up the information with people not related to that new cousin.
While this may seem insane (my father’s paternal grandmother’s side alone contributed 654 surnames so far), each surname starts with the person who was the first of that name and follows their ancestors back. to any of my trees) That is usually enough information for me to identify a more distant cousin. I consider these to all be direct surnames, as I do not add more than the spouse and parents of an indirect person (aunts, uncles, etc. It would appear I am different from your other readers as I have multiple trees: one for EACH SURNAME for me, my husband (as well as his son’s Mom’s and his two daughters’ Mom’s families), my daughters’ father, both my granddaughters’ fathers and each granddaughter’s children’s fathers’ (only two more sets of surnames for the 4 great grand-monsters). Unmodified photo by Nichole Renee via Flickr. So I’m curious: How many trees do you have? How have you divided them up? Do you have any regrets? (Only verified people with cited source documents I’ve seen are added to my tree, which is my excuse for that number being so small.) If I had a much larger tree, perhaps I’d be singing a different tune. It’s easy and it works for me.Īll that said, I have only 570 people in my tree. Or if a name seems familiar, but I’m not sure it’s my person, a quick search will reveal where that person resides in my tree.
I use the quickbar button at the top of the Family View for instant access to my most researched ancestors. One thing I like about having all my ancestors together in one tree is that I can easily access a different ancestor if I’m chasing a clue. (If I were doing my husband’s tree, which may happen some day, I would have a separate tree for him, since our ancestors come from completely different places and have no relevance to one another.)
To me, it made sense to start with myself and just work my way up one tree.
#WEBTREES MULTIPLE TREES TO SAME DATABASE SOFTWARE#
It’s a question that I didn’t even consider when I set up my family tree in Reunion (the genealogy software I use on my Mac) and in Ancestry. Should they have a separate tree for each parent’s line? Each grandparent’s line? Just one tree? I’m occasionally asked how genealogy researchers should split up their family trees.
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