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size of family tree?
I note in a previous discussion,that someone from "tribal pages" was explaining why their websites could not hold any more than 20,000 members.Did i read right or was this a misprint.How could anyone keep track of so many names in one tree.Surely the branches would be better split up and left to grow seperately.!!
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Permalink Reply by William S Dean on -
Well, I currently have well over 25,000 individuals in my family tree at ancestry.com. I DO, however, also use an offline edition of My Heritage because it generates automatic relationship reports to keep straight who is a second cousin three times removed and so forth. The problem I find with separate branches is that there is often multi-generational link ups between various families -- sometimes a century can separate the marriages -- and this might get lost in multiple tree editions.
That said, where mono-trees are helpful is in tracking particular ethnicities or geographical areas, say, all your branches from Illinois or all the German origin branches.
Just my experience; your mileage -- as they say -- may vary.
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Permalink Reply by William Douglas on -
I do not know how anyone can track families in multiple trees - at least if they are a Douglas!
Inter-marriages abound, and the thought of struggling through different trees/branches to locate duplicate members of the same family to update facts as they are found is headache making!
But if it works for you...
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Permalink Reply by james hart on -
it only works for me because i only have 1100 members.I simply want a working base for my grandchildren.I sure cant see it working with 20,000 members and sometimes over 100,000 members
Then ,I think you got to split into lots of smaller trees.
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