I do not link unrelated people in my file to one person. That would be
very misleading and confusing to anyone else who looked at your file.
I am entering the records for a town in Sicily and have over 48,000 in
my file. I check to see first if there is a relationship to someone who
already exists in my file. If so, then I enter and link them properly.
If not, I add a new unlinked individual and add that person's parents
names and/or spouse to the file. I have many of these stand alone trees
within my large file that span more than 7 generations without a problem.
Robert Arens wrote:
Yes, many.
I have a system that I've been using in my FTW software for over 10
years. FTW handles up to 99 children. I am researching all of my
ancestral surnames. Many of the same surname people I discover are not
yet documented as being a member of my ancestral lines. So, I put them
under a patriarch named: "00 not yet my Arens" (without quotes). He
then has sons named: 001-100 (etc) not yet my Arens. In my Arens line
I have about 3,000 of these Arens people. Each of my many other
ancestral surnames are handled the same way. I keep all my records in
the same file so that when I do add a connected ancestor, the program
often finds the previously 'not yet' person match within the program
so I can 'fix relationships' and thereby connect the appropriate
previously 'not yet' wives, children, descendants, ancestors, etc.
Some of my 'not yet' Arens lines are over 5 generations long. I have
over 70,000 individuals in this same file. When doing reports it's
convenient to have all 'not yet' people readily identifiable.
When I imported the FTW generated GEDCOM file into Legacy 7 Deluxe, it
disconnected all children beyond 60. So now, in Legacy, I have these
many family lines floating around without a 'head'. I've tried to
think of ways to 'round them up' so I can create '061-100' etc.
fathers. I've tried going through PAF, which handles more than 60
children, .... no help there.
If someone has developed a better system for accomplishing this, I
would greatly appreciate the help.
my current home page:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/r/e/Robert-Arens-MN/index.html#edit
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:56 PM, John S. Adams <oldbr...@hotmail.com
<mailto:oldbr...@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Do you have someone who has more than 60 children?
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
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From: "Robert Arens" <bob.aren...@gmail.com
<mailto:bob.aren...@gmail.com>>
Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 6:13 PM
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Does anyone know how to increase max number of
children from 60 to 99
Does anyone know how to increase the maximum number of
children from 60 to
99 in Legacy 7 Delux?
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