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I have a relative from Tipperary who is called Timothy, Thumetha and Thade. I have a family in Cork whose last name is Coughlan, but when they immigrate to America, the name is changed to Coughlin. Is there a correct way to include all this information on my family tree? Does John (Coughlan) Coughlin or Timothy, Thumetha or Thade Stapleton Work? Just looking for something a little more elegant, I guess.

The online records of my family have dried up in 1700 Ireland. I'm hoping someone has earlier information about my family than I do. I'm enclosing a picture of my family tree which starts with Margaret A Maguire, my maternal great-grandmother. Much of her family were from Coldfields, Moycarkey, Tipperary. Her mother, Catherine Sullivan, and her grandparents, William Sullivan and Anne Beirn, were from Aughrim, Roscommon. The Stapletons are found in or around Thurles, Tipperary and Mary Dempsey was also from Tipperary. Any help with any part of my family will be greatly appreciated.

MY Heritage has Family Tree Builder which is free to download to your computer.  It is also quite easy to use.

Thank you.

I have never had an online tree, and as I read some of these posts I see more and more reasons to back up my decision!

I keep mine on paper, so I add what I want, and leave out what I don't want. Paper is the TOOL I use to record my tree.

I appreciate that others like to use a FH programm, or an online service to record their trees. But surely that is just a different TOOL with which to record YOUR research! Not a MASTER telling you what to put, or recording things off its own bat without you knowing, whether they are correct or not, and whether you have actually researched them or not!    And then to add to this, there are people who will then copy an online tree, and call that research, and the tree a "source". 
Keep online trees to what they should be - someones actual research, of what they want to research, and that they have researched, using online facilities as the tool to record it.

I understand what you are saying, but it is still easier for me to keep organized when I use my computer.

Okay, these make sense. I've been wondering how the non relatives ended up in my tree. Slipped in on a Census I did not pay enough attention to?