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However, for research, I use both old fashioned paper methods and the internet. This may sound old fashioned in our technology filled lives, but I work on computers all day and I want to use tried and true methods for organization. I note on the front of each file or binder their dates, who the parents were and who the spouse was. That being said, each person has their own file or 3 ring binder for all the info and documents. Most of the lines are back 6-8 lines, with only one being at 10, and another being at 4. So far, I have one large tree вЂ“ the paper design goes back 10 generations. It works for me and helps keep me focused. As a new spouse is added, I add their parents, then start a new tree for that surname.

The important point is that I can find the information needed on a specific person without having to wade through all the unrelated people.

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In researching two of my families, I identified my husband вЂs many times great grandmother as the full sister of my two recently documented many times great grandmothers (who were also full sisters) so we are also cousins! My husband and I both have cousins who married cousins in our various lines and they will have the same ancestors within a couple of generations. That said, there will always be some duplicates if you go back far enough. The cousins on my MomвЂ™s side have no interest in my DadвЂ™s families, and my cousins on my DadвЂ™s side certainly arenвЂ™t interested in my MomвЂ™s families. I can easily send a specific gedcom file to a new cousin without cluttering up the information with people not related to that new cousin. While this may seem insane (my fatherвЂ™s paternal grandmotherвЂ™s side alone contributed 654 surnames so far), each surname starts with the person who was the first of that name and follows their ancestors back.

to any of my trees) That is usually enough information for me to identify a more distant cousin. I consider these to all be direct surnames, as I do not add more than the spouse and parents of an indirect person (aunts, uncles, etc. It would appear I am different from your other readers as I have multiple trees: one for EACH SURNAME for me, my husband (as well as his sonвЂ™s MomвЂ™s and his two daughtersвЂ™ MomвЂ™s families), my daughtersвЂ™ father, both my granddaughtersвЂ™ fathers and each granddaughterвЂ™s childrenвЂ™s fathersвЂ™ (only two more sets of surnames for the 4 great grand-monsters). Unmodified photo by Nichole Renee via Flickr. So IвЂ™m curious: How many trees do you have? How have you divided them up? Do you have any regrets?

(Only verified people with cited source documents IвЂ™ve seen are added to my tree, which is my excuse for that number being so small.) If I had a much larger tree, perhaps IвЂ™d be singing a different tune. ItвЂ™s easy and it works for me.ДЄll that said, I have only 570 people in my tree. Or if a name seems familiar, but IвЂ™m not sure itвЂ™s my person, a quick search will reveal where that person resides in my tree. I use the quickbar button at the top of the Family View for instant access to my most researched ancestors. One thing I like about having all my ancestors together in one tree is that I can easily access a different ancestor if IвЂ™m chasing a clue. (If I were doing my husbandвЂ™s tree, which may happen some day, I would have a separate tree for him, since our ancestors come from completely different places and have no relevance to one another.) To me, it made sense to start with myself and just work my way up one tree.

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ItвЂ™s a question that I didnвЂ™t even consider when I set up my family tree in Reunion (the genealogy software I use on my Mac) and in Ancestry. Should they have a separate tree for each parentвЂ™s line? Each grandparentвЂ™s line? Just one tree? IвЂ™m occasionally asked how genealogy researchers should split up their family trees.

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