Which in-laws get to stay in our trees?

[coughlinja]

MY Heritage has Family Tree Builder which is free to download to your computer.  It is also quite easy to use.

Thank you.

[StevieSteve]

Slightly embarrassed at my newness. I do use Ancestry. What other software can you use to store your tree.

Here's a sample,

http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

with their top 3 being

The top performers in our review are Family Tree Maker, the Gold Award winner; Legacy Family Tree, the Silver Award winner; and Family Historian, the Bronze Award winner.

[coughlinja]

Slightly embarrassed at my newness. I do use Ancestry. What other software can you use to store your tree.

Here's a sample,

http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

with their top 3 being

The top performers in our review are Family Tree Maker, the Gold Award winner; Legacy Family Tree, the Silver Award winner; and Family Historian, the Bronze Award winner.

Building a tree in Family Tree Maker. Thanks again.

[Rosinish]

Ancestry's slightly different, it's more of a chain rather than a tree

A shambles in that case & they need to sort it....no wonder people have names in their tree who don't belong there.

Glad I stopped using their tree facility yrs ago when I got my FTM.........any mistakes are my own & easily recognised.

Annie

[StanleysChesterton]

I'll add/keep anybody because you never know when you'll find more information that makes sense of something.  e.g. if somebody suddenly turns up in a census 100 miles from home you might spot that it's their great-aunt's second husband's sister they're staying with.... helping you to form ideas/opinions about how close the families were .... and getting more of a "general picture".

My GG-grandmother was a housekeeper in 1901.... it turns out it's her dead great/aunt's husband (so her great/uncle), who she went to live with/look after for 4-5 years until he died.  Without knowing who everybody was I'd have not spotted the name and thought it rang a bell and searched the tree for the old man's name that I half recognised.

I do wish, however, that there were "switches" on software where you could instantly "hide" anybody not blood related and other choices, so you could highlight/hide parts of trees. 

[ThrelfallYorky]

What good ideas, StanleysChesterton!
 I tend to include in-laws / married ins, because as you say, they can help you find odd people here and there.
I'd like something that showed adoptions, especially where the true parent is known, and I'd love a button that eliminated any hint NOT in England!
Also "unknown relative" might be nice....
Also like a "floreat" box, when one's not sure about birth or death but has documents showing existence at that time...
Save a lot of time browsing about in idle moments ... but then: what would one do with the time saved?
Seriously, I also use paper and a "Main tree" - and branch trees in both directions are on other sheets, for cross reference when needed

[Pheno]

These comments about Ancestry trees do annoy me.

Ancestry trees are as good as their owners - Ancestry themselves don't add individuals to trees!!

They offer hints based on their record collection and entries in other people's trees - no tree owner is bound to add them to their tree.  There is always a facility to ignore the record/hint and if not ignored then the hints/records can be reviewed before adding them to a tree.  If the owners are not good enough/interested enough/able to spot the wood from the trees then that is how these trees fill with erroneous info and spurious persons.

We don't all just add people willy-nilly.

Pheno

[youngtug]

I do wish, however, that there were "switches" on software where you could instantly "hide" anybody not blood related and other choices, so you could highlight/hide parts of trees.

Tribalpages do not have "switches" but they do have the facility to mark a line of various relationships with a coloured "flag". [ ie; blood relative of X / descendant of Y. ]

[Rosinish]

I do have parents of "anyone" married "into" my family (although not always related to me) but only for reference of who the incomer was.

It's good for when printing reports as it will show Joe Bloggs married Jean Brown (daughter of said parents "in-laws") rather than simply Joe Bloggs married Jean Brown.

Annie