I have a huntin' thing and these days I satisfy it by chasing cousins. I like to follow the mirgation pattern - and I followed in the early years everyone I could find because I couldn't find my family, and it worked.
Now I just like the thrill of the hunt <G> Eliz On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bob Vary <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? 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