When The Tree Becomes a Shrouded Forest

[wrjones]

I've been doing my Tree since December 2003 when I didn't know the proper names of my four Grandparents.I have over 6000 names in my Tree now but of that number maybe less than 50 that are on the dodgy siide.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[coombs]

My grans brother who was born in 1923 died in 1989 and the index gives his date of birth of 9th September. I can remember when he died. I was 7 then. I obtained his baptism when he was just weeks old at St Helen Auckland, Durham.

It is handy when great grandparents or grandparents or their siblings die after March 1969 as that is when the DOB was included.

[LoneyBones]

I mentioned before that I hadn't reached 2,000 in my Legacy tree yet, but there are many people who while not in my Tree, are still in my research notes.
We all have 2 parents, happily I knew both of mine. 
Then 4 grandparents, I knew two grandmothers and my Dad,s mother's second husband who I called Pop.
We all have 8x G grands, 16x G G grands, 32x GGG grands and 64x GGGG grands.
I have in my tree most of those. I'm missing 2 of the 32 GGG grands and 9 of my GGGG grands.
Since this only adds up to 113 people....who are all the others?
Siblings of course.  What would we be without our siblings and who are our ancestors without their siblings?  They are all relative, especially when doing research. How can we 'know' an ancestor without also knowing their siblings.
To me, a list of names is nothing if I don't 'know' them.
Of what interest is John COOPER...just a name... But Captain John COOPER, master of the "Lady Blackford", husband of Eliza(nee PAPPS, formaly GLOVER), father of Emma, brother-in-law of Captain Lewin WILES..... this is a real person.
This is the reason I do Family History and Genealogical research. Not just to collect names.
Altho' if I did a 'One Name Study', I'd probably still go off and research all the side lines.... as I said, I'm obsessed.

[teaurn]

I always add the parents of someone who marries into my family purely because when I print the report It comes up with

Mary Aldam daughter of Edmund Aldam[3]  was born in 1574 in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England[25].

Richard Muncey and Mary Aldam were married on 07 Dec 1596 in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, England. They had the following children:
 

There is also the family connected with your partner.  I am doing this to pass on down the family(hopefully )  so both sides of the family are needed