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maxxangel
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How do you do yours?
« on: Tuesday 18 August 09 05:00 UTC (UK) »

I am currently trying to fill in the details on my family tree working back from my nearest relatives. However, as you can imagine, the tree is getting wider. My first thought was to take it step at a time and fill in the details on each family for that generation before moving onto the previous generation. Not sure this is such a good idea now though particularly as I seem to get stuck on some for a while. Wondering whether to change tack and research down one line at a time as far as I can.

Just wondered how everyone else does or has done theirs. Do you follow one surname as far back as you can or do you follow the female side as far as you can? Or do you do it generation at a time?

Cara


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wendy47
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Re: How do you do yours?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 18 August 09 05:51 UTC (UK) »

Hi Cara

I started by following my maiden name as far back as possible [back in the 1980's it wasn't as easy as it is today] and my paternal grandfather helped as he was born in 1896 so his memories of his grandparents took me back well into the 1850's. I collected the females on the way. I was fortunate enough to get back to 1670 to 'naughty Sarah' and came to a shuddering halt as she had 3 children out of wedlock with her employer and I've no idea whether she was unmarried or a widow. I'm still looking.
I have done it this way with all my grandparents & great grandparents etc. and fleshed out the main lines gradually.

Wendy Grin


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angelfish58
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Re: How do you do yours?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 18 August 09 09:50 UTC (UK) »

As I'm impatient and disorganised I do a bit of everything. I spend way too much time doing my family history so will spend time on one line, maybe going sideways before switching to another or to my OHs tree.
I still have lots of sources to check and I'm learning all the time so then I go back and go over people again. I may not be doing it like a professional but I enjoy it all enormously.


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LizzieW
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Re: How do you do yours?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 18 August 09 10:32 UTC (UK) »

Cara

I go backwards and sideways with branches of both my mother's and father's trees, taking in their cousins and children etc. both male and females. The problem is, just as I start working on one line, I get a request from a distant relative for help about another line and off I go on that one.

Actually happened about midnight last night, so I started looking at a branch that is very distantly related to me in that my grandmother's cousin married into this family called S****. Think I managed to help the person in question, who was asking on behalf of someone else also related to the S****. Typically she had picked up two trees on Ancestry which had different information than she has, which she'd only found out by speaking to an old couple who fostered her grandfather! Once I'd pointed out that she needed to buy a marriage cert to find out who her grandfather's father was, at least that problem was solved.

I'd say, do whatever you like, it's your tree and your family, but get the information down onto a family tree program on your PC as soon as you have verified it, or you will end up with loads of paperwork and won't know where to start.

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maxxangel
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Re: How do you do yours?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 August 09 01:26 UTC (UK) »

Quote from: LizzieW on Tuesday 18 August 09 10:32 UTC (UK)

I'd say, do whatever you like, it's your tree and your family, but get the information down onto a family tree program on your PC as soon as you have verified it, or you will end up with loads of paperwork and won't know where to start.

Thank you for the tip. I currently have everything in computer folders which have ended up being divided into different folder for different surnames. Could get rather crowded though as I progress.


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Lyndon
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Re: How do you do yours?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 August 09 09:52 UTC (UK) »

I started by following the lines of least resistance. I just went back on the lines that were easy to research - well easier, if not easy.

Initially I was keen to go back as far as possible. But now my emphasis has changed, and I want to find out as much as possible about the later people. Since then I have discovered a murder that I knew nothing about, the log books of my 2 x g grandfather's sea voyages, a distant cousin killed in a mining accident, witness reports from people who saw my uncle's plane shot down over France during WWII and lots more. I'm currently working on why and how Welsh died out in my family, even when I have a family with a Welsh speaking mother and an English speaking father.

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LizzieW
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Re: How do you do yours?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 19 August 09 22:39 UTC (UK) »

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how Welsh died out in my family, even when I have a family with a Welsh speaking mother and an English speaking father.

Father probably didn't want to speak Welsh, so mum learned to speak English if she couldn't already do so.

Lizzie


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