All of you are in another league from me. I have 1000 names, and was
surprised to have so many. My ancestors all flew below the radar. Very
few owned property, none left wills, and most moved all over the place.
I have 15 Philadelphia addresses for one grandfather, plus 2 Trenton
ones, and he had children born in Lafayette, Spring Hill, and at least
one other place in Pennsylvania. He also seems to have avoided the
census takers, and he was not the only one. My mother lived in Lebanon
and Pittsburgh in PA, NJ, Denver, Wyoming and Pasadena (before she was
25). Fortunately she talked to me about where she lived. I was able
to find one line (all of whom are engineers or accountants) but the rest
are blank. And I cannot get them across the ocean/
Elizabeth C
Graham wrote:
> Hello all,
> I am just wondering how so many people have 20,000 plus in their
> family tree. I have been doing my tree for just over 12 years now and
> have roughly 2,000 relations included. Quite a lot of those are what I
> regard as twigs, rather than branches, and only added as I was
> reasonably happy with the quality of research shown by my distant
> cousins. From what I have seen, the further back you go in time
> though, the more unreliable the information becomes. So now, I am not
> really looking for any more people to add, but rather more information
> on the close relations that I already have. I guess the size of
> families comes into it, but am I missing something here?
> Regards, Graham
>
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