This may open a can of worms, but I’m having a hard time understanding the point of having so many people in a database. What is you purpose in doing your genealogy? Is it to have every single person in any way related to you? Personally, I have no interest in some 13th cousin, 10 times removed. I am only interested in my direct ancestry and possibly the siblings or cousins of those I descend from if they have some historical significance. And at the risk of sounding elitist, I don’t use any online databases submitted by amateurs. In my experience they are so full of errors as to be useless. I would rather have a small database built from original research using primary, or reliable secondary, sources. I don’t mean this as a criticism because everybody has their own goals and gets their enjoyment from doing thing their own way. Just wondering.
Bob From: Ila Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 4:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file It is interesting because several of us have very large databases. I have over 53,000 and am growing daily. I also have over 800 master sources with thousands attached to some of them. It is not only how many people you have in your database but how you source the information you find. Thanks to the online databases it is now easy to add people to your database, but not all that information is correct or sourced. That is where you have to work hard to prove that what you find is correct. I do run potential problems every couple of weeks to catch typo's and I do compress and repair at least once a month. That way it keeps my database clean and running smoothly. I changed from Family Tree Maker to Legacy Family Tree because once I reached 30,000 FTM starting losing people. I have so far, I have not had any problems with Legacy. When I run potential problems though, do to the the size of my database, it does take some time. But I have found the program has been able to handle all of the information I have data entered into it. Ila Johnson _____ From: Eliz Hanebury <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, July 2, 2011 8:36:09 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] number of people in your file Interesting question, I have 28,917(thanks to the online records I have had the luxury of tracking daughter and all of my ancestors, so I can follow their patterns- which is half the fun to me *G*) people in my tree and except for uploading to World Connect (had too many dead hard drives, I like belt. braces and Cloud) and nothing seems to bother the legacyfamily tree. It just keeps on truckin' and I know there are people with many more individuals than I have. I have tons of notes, and full census transcriptions and the county biographys from the 1890, a lot of stuff! Eliz On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:29 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am curious, how many people do you have in your file? I have 7800 and I > think that is a lot. I am wondering if you have exceptionally large files > does it slow down at all? Do you need to do the file maintenance more > often? Compact more often? > > michele > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
