If you do not have legitimate sourced proof that an individual belongs to your family all you have is a guess and all you have done is collect a possible lead. You can collect names from now to kingdom come but if that is all you do you have not done genealogy. You might as well take a city phone book and copy all the names that match those in your family. It actually verges on "one-up-manship." You need birth & death records, land records, wills, military records, census records and etc to prove a genealogy. It is hard work and can not be done strictly on the internet in 6 months or a year or more. But it is so satisfying when you find the one piece of information that provides the proof you have been looking for. If you are not involved in this kind of search you are missing half the fun of genealogy. I feel sorry for you.
Sorry for venting but I feel better. Spare me the critique of my comments. I have heard all the easy answer before.
Claire
----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Wondering
Bill wrote:I realize that this comment and question is not on the topic of Legacy
BUT as I read all of your emails many tell of a data base of
10,000--20,000-- even 30,000 individuals in your database with Legacy.
For myself I go back 8 generations for my bloodline 14 generation with
my mother's family, and 9 generations with my wife's side of her family
with both parents. This includes all children within each generational
family. And I have only tops 670 individuals. Yes, I have not expanded
on all 13 children of my 4th great grand father. just my bloodline.
Bill, if you go back one generation to your parents thats 2 people;
2 generations 4, so the number of people in a generation is 2 raised
to the power of the number of generations, or 2^n in math/computer
symbols. If you've gone back 8 generations on one line thats 256
people and if you've gone back 9 generations on another line, that's
512, which is 768 people without adding any siblings of these folks.
So I don't see how you could have gone back that many generations
on all your lines and have only 670 people in your file, and of course
it would be many more if "all children within each generational family"
were included. Perhaps you have some lines that don't go all the
way back for 8 and 9 generations?
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