Graham & Kathy, It may be that the very large databases are in fact One-Name Studies, or similar, and are co-operative efforts of a number of people researching the same Surname. I have seen those withe large DBs being referred to as Name collectors, whilst there may be some ‘researchers’ like that, you will find that it is not the case with One-Name studies which are usually carefully researched.
Whilst I have only published around 7000 records in my own One-Name Study, I have around 110,000 Fergusons on my PC. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Kathy Meyer Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity Graham, Thanks for asking that; I always wonder the same thing when people mention these huge databases; I think I'm at about 2800 or so in my database but then I added in about 6000 from my in laws' gedcom. But when people mention tens and hundreds of thousands of entries, it boggles my little brain. I hope you will receive some answers to this query! Kathy On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Graham Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Sharon, I have just over 2,000 in my tree and quite a few of them are 'very' distant relations. I guess I only add those distant relations out of boredom because direct lines, going back in time, are becoming harder to find. Just wondering, how did you ever collect so many relations and do you think there will be a cut-off point. I know Legacy can handle them all with no problems, but can you use them all to a manageable advantage. As I say, just wondering what people with large trees think, as it is a little beyond my comprehension. Graham On 18/02/2011 5:21 AM, Sharon Johnson wrote: I have roughly 112,000 names in my Legacy database. I download pictures, census images, death certificates, etc. I am backing up 2,285,688 KB of memory on my backup disk. How do I find out what the maximum capacity for Legacy memory use is? I don't want to get to a point where I start losing information I am adding.   Sharon L Johnson [email protected] Blogs: grandmasharonlee.blogspot.com grandmasharon2000.blogspot.com http://www.BinocularDeals.com -- Kathy Meyer Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
