Which in-laws get to stay in our trees?

[coughlinja]

This is very helpful. Thanks all.

[lizdb]

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. 

[3sillydogs]

I have an online tree as well as paper records.  I like to have the paper record because it is an easy reference but I also have a programme on my computer which I use as my handwriting is so awful then I print it out and use that.

[coughlinja]

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.

[LizzieW]

Of course it's possible to have in-laws who are related to you.  My g.gran married and then her brother married her husband's sister.  So the in-laws of my g.grandmother are also the in-laws of her brother and likewise the in-laws of my g.grandfather are also the in-laws of his sister. 

[3sillydogs]

Of course it's possible to have in-laws who are related to you.  My g.gran married and then her brother married her husband's sister.  So the in-laws of my g.grandmother are also the in-laws of her brother and likewise the in-laws of my g.grandfather are also the in-laws of his sister. 

I had that as well in the case of my grandmother and her sister marrying two brothers and my mum and her sister marrying brothers

[StevieSteve]

With FH software, yes, the information is stored in a database, mine wouldn't normally display non-family members other than spouses in a tree unless I asked it to,

Ancestry's slightly different, it's more of a chain rather than a tree

[coughlinja]

With FH software, yes, the information is stored in a database, mine wouldn't normally display non-family members other than spouses in a tree unless I asked it to,

Ancestry's slightly different, it's more of a chain rather than a tree

Slightly embarrassed at my newness. I do use Ancestry. What other software can you use to store your tree.

[3sillydogs]

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