"Oh! Have you finished it yet?"

[Wendy2305]

My family tree will never be finished as there is always the next generation to add people don't stop having babies

It's a shame they can't find out what causes it. 

Something to do with the birds and bees I believe

[Caw1]

I'm definitely sure that I'll need several lifetimes to come anywhere close to completing my family tree...... it's all the moving sideways that extends it and you find someone who has lots of records and an interesting life and get completely sidetracked from where you started.... so then you have to go back and pick up where you left off!
Everyone has brick walls and you spend years trying to crack them..... wish I'd managed to crack just one but no, keep trying, take a break, do some gardening, leave it for the cold wet days of winter and then emerse yourself for hours at a time.... ironing piles up, dust inches thick, husband cooking all the meals, being in your pj's till lunch time.... I'm only going to just look at this new set of records I've found .... I say, where did the day go...
It's hard for the unconverted to understand how it grips you and overtakes your life.... then there is that moment of euphoria when you find something rewarding... really makes a difference... go rushing into the room where hubbie is blurt it all out and get that glazed look with a comment.... oh just another dead person you've found then.... really how could he 😱😱

The answer is I don't think you can ever finish your tree..... there are too many people in them... name collectors probably could but they don't get the reward of looking really deeply into the lives of these names... they're missing out .... aren't they?

Oh well back to the research!

Caroline

[Rosinish]

I've had numerous things said re my family tree...

"Are you not finished yet, you've been doing it for yrs, you can't be very good at it"! 

I don't worry about finding up-to-date relatives but I try as the info. about their ancestors is what I'm interested in, not their business/lives which I think is a stumbling block at times as people are wary of contact from 'strangers'.

I had an interest (curiosity) in my genealogy (not even knowing what the word meant) as a child simply because I only had cousins on my maternal side in the town I was born/bred (maternal g/parents deceased before I was born) but when I went on holiday to visit my paternal g/mother (g/father deceased before I was born), I was taken round so many houses (visiting), all relations & my father would explain who they were/how they were related etc.

My father was very family orientated i.e. I was blessed when I took up Genealogy seriously many decades later to have a great knowledge of where I came from (2 generations beyond) although a bit puzzling too but there were many names outside my paternal birth name which I recalled too & my father helped me with my lines, names/surnames/maiden names although he did admit he couldn't put dates to anyone (that's men for you) 

I'm not complaining in the least as all the info. added up when it became available in record/image form rather than an index.

SP wasn't the site it is now but when SP came along it was a goldmine & I was hooked from my 1st encounter! 

When will I be finished?...How long is a piece of string? 

I can't imagine giving it up until I'm forced to 

I've been asked how much I've spent (I wouldn't like to add it up) but quickly told...

"X done their tree all free back to 17 oatcake"..."Why is it costing you £s?"!...

"Because I do it the proper way"!

Annie

[Guy Etchells]

I thought I was finished on my dad's side but then some Professor in Ethiopia notified me of a further confirmed ancestor Australopithecus Anamensis.

Oh well, back to the drawing board!

Cheers
Guy

[Nanna52]

Fair go, I haven’t pinned down my biological grandfather yet!  (Much further on other lines).

[rosie17]

Don't think I will ever finish mine to many brick walls that can't be knocked down ...Spent a fortune through the years but have had a lot of enjoyment finding out things about family members 

Rosie

[Mowsehowse]

Further back, further sideways, more detail, further forward to living relatives, further into the social history surrounding the trades, the faiths, the political events that were the backdrops to their lives, the disease epidemics that claimed so many of them, emigration and American history.

Absolutely..... I will never be "finished"

[medpat]

I too have had queries why hadn't I finished it. A couple of them had been impressed how easy it was and couldn't understand the problems I was having - they both watch WDYTYA - a quick search on the computer and it's all there. 

One of them who thought it so easy asked me to find her gt grandfather from Scotland - I started at her parents and went back to her Scottish gt grandfather - from Norfolk  , marriage in Norfolk to correct woman, she was totally bewildered - family in the Kings Lynn to Norwich area for a century that a quick look showed. Most of her family from South London and Kent - did they think his accent was Scottish or perhaps because his eldest son went to Scotland and lived there, marrying a local lady. She used to visit her Scottish relatives. 

[Jill Eaton]

I thought I was finished on my dad's side but then some Professor in Ethiopia notified me of a further confirmed ancestor Australopithecus Anamensis.

Oh well, back to the drawing board!

Cheers
Guy

Had this conversation around the dinner table last night.....Is it appropriate to add it to our own personal tree and should we add it to Ancestry Trees? Would someone just copy it without checking it's accuracy?