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JennyC

How ro record branches...

Legg inn av JennyC » 16 feb 2005 08:57:42

Hi

I use Family Tree Maker to record my findings.

I've been wondering what's the best way to record the various family 'lines'.
Is it better / clearer to use a separate tree for my fathers line and my
mothers?
If I put them all in one file, will it become too complex to follow?

What do other people do?

Amy thoughts would be appreciated,
Jenny Cockshull

http://www.cockshull.com

Edward A. Feustel

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Edward A. Feustel » 16 feb 2005 12:40:57

"JennyC" <JennyC@chello.nl> wrote in message
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Hi

I use Family Tree Maker to record my findings.

I've been wondering what's the best way to record the various family
'lines'.
Is it better / clearer to use a separate tree for my fathers line and my
mothers?
If I put them all in one file, will it become too complex to follow?

What do other people do?

Amy thoughts would be appreciated,
Jenny Cockshull

http://www.cockshull.com



I use TMG and include all the ancestors of our son. Using the tree

representation that is available, it is very easy to navigate to the person
of interest.

When a relative wishes a copy of their portion of the tree, I slice my tree
up and using Second Site create a CD for them that contains html of their
family with full tree and indices all hyperlinked.
Ed




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Steve Hayes

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Steve Hayes » 16 feb 2005 19:38:30

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:57:42 +0100, "JennyC" <JennyC@chello.nl> wrote:

Hi

I use Family Tree Maker to record my findings.

I've been wondering what's the best way to record the various family 'lines'.
Is it better / clearer to use a separate tree for my fathers line and my
mothers?
If I put them all in one file, will it become too complex to follow?

What do other people do?

I have a "Mainfile" into which I put all relatives of all branches, provided
connections have been established.

I have a "Research" file in which dubious connections, alien GEDCOMS etc go.

I have some files for particular families, for one-name studies, or working in
a particular area. But "Mainfile" has all establishe connections - all
ancestors of my children, and all descendants of those ancestors.

If a cousin asks for info, I then simply select them and export all their
relatives, including, of course, spouses and parents of spouses.



--
Steve Hayes
E-mail: hayesmstw@hotmail.com (see web page if it doesn't work)
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/

JennyC

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av JennyC » 16 feb 2005 20:47:17

"Steve Hayes" <hayesmstw@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:57:42 +0100, "JennyC" <JennyC@chello.nl> wrote:

Hi
I use Family Tree Maker to record my findings.
I've been wondering what's the best way to record the various family 'lines'.
Is it better / clearer to use a separate tree for my fathers line and my
mothers?
If I put them all in one file, will it become too complex to follow?
What do other people do?

I have a "Mainfile" into which I put all relatives of all branches, provided
connections have been established.

I have a "Research" file in which dubious connections, alien GEDCOMS etc go.

I have some files for particular families, for one-name studies, or working in
a particular area. But "Mainfile" has all establishe connections - all
ancestors of my children, and all descendants of those ancestors.

If a cousin asks for info, I then simply select them and export all their
relatives, including, of course, spouses and parents of spouses.
Steve Hayes
E-mail: hayesmstw@hotmail.com (see web page if it doesn't work)
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/

Thanks for the reply's.
I've looked closer at FTM and see that I can split up the various branches is
necessary :~))
Problem solved
Jenny

Nickd

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Nickd » 17 feb 2005 23:32:25

Question, what is TMG?


Edward A. Feustel wrote:
"JennyC" <JennyC@chello.nl> wrote in message
news:37gcq5F5dg039U1@individual.net...

Hi

I use Family Tree Maker to record my findings.

I've been wondering what's the best way to record the various family
'lines'.
Is it better / clearer to use a separate tree for my fathers line and my
mothers?
If I put them all in one file, will it become too complex to follow?

What do other people do?

Amy thoughts would be appreciated,
Jenny Cockshull

http://www.cockshull.com




I use TMG and include all the ancestors of our son. Using the tree
representation that is available, it is very easy to navigate to the person
of interest.

When a relative wishes a copy of their portion of the tree, I slice my tree
up and using Second Site create a CD for them that contains html of their
family with full tree and indices all hyperlinked.
Ed




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Pam

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Pam » 18 feb 2005 12:23:29

TMG is The Master Genealogist. An excellent program, and very versatile.

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Pam
http://www.pamsgenealogy.net

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Question, what is TMG?


Chris

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Chris » 23 feb 2005 00:55:41

Steve,
I like that idea.
within FTM is there an easy way to seperate my direct lines from the
"possible lines", or would I have to move each person?

Thanks

Chris

Steve Hayes

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Steve Hayes » 23 feb 2005 06:44:18

On 22 Feb 2005 15:55:41 -0800, "Chris" <my_genealogy@comcast.net> wrote:

Steve,
I like that idea.
within FTM is there an easy way to seperate my direct lines from the
"possible lines", or would I have to move each person?

I've not used FTM, but I never move anything out of may main file, nor do I
delete any records. If I enter something that really doesn't belong I just
change the surname to Zzblank, and reuse it when I'm entering new people.
That's because my Mainfile is in a number of different genealogy programs,
which all use different reports and have different features I find useful. The
RINs are the same in each version, so I've indexed the anmes on that.

But, to give an example -- someone sent me a bunch of GREENAWAY information
from Cornwall. His family, not mine. I imported the GEDCOM into its own file,
and exported all my Greenaway-related families from my mainfile to that file.
Any other Cornwall Greenaway information I find, I enter in there, whether
they are related or not, and look at the info to see if there are connections.
if I find any, I'll enter them into my main file. It's not a true one-name
study, but it is similar.

One thing I DON'T do is keep different files for different branches of my
family. That would make it verry difficult to do a pedigree chart for my
children. So I don't have one for my wife and another for me, or one for my
father and another for my mother. I put all information on people who are
related in one file.




--
Steve Hayes
E-mail: hayesmstw@hotmail.com (see web page if it doesn't work)
Web: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/

Chris

Re: How ro record branches...

Legg inn av Chris » 23 feb 2005 23:43:33

What my thought would to be is to have the mainfile, with everything.
Also have a direct line file, which are the verified family memebers. I
started to use the seperate files for seperate families and ran in to
the nightmare.
I have been trying to come up with a system to have those not verifieed
stand out from those that do.
I started with a + but found out how big of a pain that was in doing
surname searches.
thanks for the ideas

Chris Rich

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