Admitting the usefulness of such artificial linkings, I would remind you that this will render your relationship calculations and various ancestry reports dubious at best. You will have to keep careful track of these imaginary linkages and take them into account with each report produced. Personally, I would keep separate files for each line and make another 'working master' with the artificial links. It's an easy matter, when a concrete connection is discovered, to use split screen and drag the line into one of the involved separate files and then in the same way merge it to the second involved. This will keep the lines 'real' for reports, but give you a working base that can be repaired or modified if linkage proves untrue.
Wm Voss -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Holly Wanless Cochran Sent: Tuesday, 12 March, 2002 15:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Linking Separate Trees Donna, One time I did this at a temporary measure. I had 5 Gwin families, who I was sure were all related, but didn't know how. The earliest ancestors in each group were of an age where they could be siblings - but they could just as easily be cousins, and in one case, 2 of them might be 1 person. It was a pain having them all unlinked; it was easier to find them if they were linked somehow. So I created an "father" called "Gwins of Tippecanoe co, Indiana" and made him the "father" of each of the earliest ancestors of my 5 groups (so it appeared that he had 5 children). I wrote notes in the "father"'s entry about what I was doing and how they weren't really siblings as far as I knew. Within about a year, I had identified 4 of the 5 groups through land records and wills, and was able to link them correctly (turns out 4 of them WERE siblings, but I'm still not sure about the 5th one). I think temporarily linking them to a common "ancestor" made my research a little easier and allowed me to see parallels and similarities I might not have noticed if they were 5 separate trees floating around in my database. Just my 2 cents, Holly To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
