On 24/03/2012 04:31, Tami P. wrote: > I’ve been working on my database for awhile now and have a question. How > do you all decide to add to your databases? Do you add anyone with the > surname your are searching or only those people with a confirmed link? > Until now I’ve only been adding only those that I can confirm a link. > However, lately I’m wondering if I’m overlooking a lot of potential > links because they may be several generations previous to the one I’m > currently searching. Just wondering how you all feel about this too.
As a general rule I only add people who are connected to me and *some* of the people connected to them (see below) but I do also add unlinked (ie not linked to any other individual in Legacy) people if I am fairly sure that they are going to fit into the family somewhere. That way I don't forget about them and what information I have is stored with them until such time as I can either link them to the family or eliminate them. For example, I have several records and a cousin has some artefacts (medals etc) relating to a William Thomas Bloor. In a funeral notice he is referred to as my 2xGreat Grandfather's nephew. My mother heard her mother talk of "Uncle Tom." So we know he is a member of the family but after several years' research I still don't know where he fits, but he is in my database, along with his wife, waiting to be linked up. When I first began, I would record all blood relatives and their spouses, the parents & siblings of the spouses and the spouses of the siblings. Then I decided this was too much and I wanted to keep my database smaller so I would recognize all the people in it, so I decided only enter the siblings of my uncles' & aunts' spouses, along with their parents, and only the parents of my cousins' spouses. As time has gone by I am finding more and more (and more distant) cousins and beginning not to bother even adding in their spouses' parents. I do often hear about people who claim to have tens of thousands of people in their trees and wonder how they can find the time to research fully all those people and get to know them, as I like to do as far as possible. -- Jenny M Benson 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
