I have the same problem. The only thing I can find is information for my very distant lines. I only add them because other people might find the information useful. This had worked many years ago when I dabbled in researching only distant lines posting the information on my own website. The distant cousins started popping up because I had information they didn’t have.
I have found that the distant lines have more information than my direct lines. My direct lines tossed out a lot of good information over the years and public documents are just not available. Ancestry has zilch as far as DC/MD records which is what I need, and any books that have the information have been out of print for years. Obituaries and census records are the best records. Death certificates are also good. ------- Bill Boswell From: Sharon Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 9:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity I feel "related" to Graham's remarks. I can go only so far with my direct lines so I have branched out by reading obituaries, census records, etc. Sharon L Johnson <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Blogs: grandmasharonlee.blogspot.com grandmasharon2000.blogspot.com http://www.BinocularDeals.com <http://www.binoculardeals.com/> _____ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:36:56 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity To: [email protected] I have a database of over 46,000 of Germans from Russia. We are all one big family. I have family living in several states in America, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, England, and Brazil. Still adding a hundred + each week. Not hard to do when it was common to have 10 to 15 children. Over half of these are related to me. Most of my lines are back into the 1600's. Sure wish my maternal side was as far along as my Paternal. In America there are not the records available to help put my mother's families together. On her side, my database is only 3456. So far I have had no problems with Legacy. I quite using Family Tree Maker because I did. When I reached 30,000 if started losing names. Ila Fichtner-Johnson _____ From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, February 17, 2011 7:41:37 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity I have 26000+ which includes counties in Kentucky and Norway where I did location studies, and the Royal lines which go back to BC times. Depends how far back you go, how far out 1st cousins, 2nd cousins. My 5th cousins are also 3rd and 7th cousins (inbreeding). Rich in LA CA --- On Thu, 2/17/11, Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy capacity To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 1:54 PM 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] <http://us.mc843.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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 <http://us.mc843.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> [email protected] Blogs: grandmasharonlee.blogspot.com <http://grandmasharonlee.blogspot.com/> grandmasharon2000.blogspot.com <http://grandmasharon2000.blogspot.com/> http://www.binoculardeals.com/       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 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 -- Kathy Meyer STRESS: when your gut says "NO WAY" and your mouth says "NO PROBLEM" "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. 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