My Tree,Another Milestone Passed

[7igerby7he7ail]

Until last week I had just under 6500 individuals in my tree.
On Monday I recvd. a message from a possible cousin.

After  initial searching, I realised we had tree matches.
This takes me past the 6500 mark and also I have new distant cousins and the tree grows once more.

So far I have in my tree and my wife's tree

6565 individuals
1151 surnames
1807 unions
1743 places of birth,marraiage or residence
and 'cousins' in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the US
My wife has 'cousins' in New Zealand, Canada, and the US


I still have a lot of searching to do. My maternal side is only the barest branches.
Here's to the next 1000

Tom

[Roobarb]

Blimey Tom, how do you find time to do anything else?!! I thought I was doing well when I got to 600! Congratulations!         

[meles]

600!? Golly, I've been at this for 10 years and still have only 60!

meles

[Roobarb]

I suppose it depends on whether you stick to the near ancestors or branch out into the families of second cousins etc. I think there was some debate on that quite recently. I do tend to add on everyone, even the far reaching ones

[meles]

Oh - I add everyone! Just that they seems to peter out....

And the brick walls against which I am banging my head!

meles

[7igerby7he7ail]

I add almost everyone. Marriages into the tree and their parents and siblings. Sometimes more if they look interesting.
1st,2nd,3rd,4th cousins.
Cousins, their spouses, children. I sometimes take cousins spouses back a couple of generations [or more if they request it].
Back a couple of generations for non blood related aunts and uncles. It all adds up.

What is the farthest distance of a 'cousin' and how many times removed before they become so distant?. Say 6th cousin once removed, How far can you go?

Remember the further you go back with each generation the numbers of each direct ancestor doubles [2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents etc.]
So you can have......
2,parents
4,grandparents
8,great grandparents
16, gg gparents
32, 3x gparents
64, 4x gparents
128, 5x gparents
256, 6x gparents
512, 7x gparents
1024, 8x gparents
2048, 9x gparents
4096, 10x gparents
Then you can include all the siblings, cousins etc. in each generation.
Then you can double this if you are researching your spouse’s tree also.

I feel like I've just got started!

Tom

[Tephra]

And here was me thinking I was doing great with 198 individuals on my tree         


Barbara             

[Pinetree]

Oh - I add everyone! Just that they seems to peter out....

And the brick walls against which I am banging my head!

meles

If your brickwall is the GAMBLES in Yorkshire give me a shout.  I have a couple in my tree - you never know?!

Pinetree

[Lydart]

The endurance of some researchers, to count people on their trees in hundreds and thousands ... I'm not knocking it if that is what you want to do ... free country and all that, but how much is it possible to know about all those folk, apart from names and dates ? 

My preference is to get the basics found and recorded, and then delve deeper ... for e.g., my mother was named Millicent after Millicent Garrett Fawcett, because Granny was a suffragist ... so now I'm finding out about them.  (Wish I'd be around at that time, I'd have been one too !)  This sort of reading around really brings the people who were just names and dates to life; it fleshes out the bones. 

So what do you want, fellow Chatters, bones, or flesh ??

Lydart