Genealogy Chat

Everyone and anyone related, there may be some other than agg labs or dressmakers!!!. Rod

For someone to be a blood relation you must share some ancestors with them. So...... ''say my dads dad married a lady would her parents be my blood relatives and then would both thier parents be blood relatives etc?'' Your dad's dad is your blood relative, but if you are saying the person he married was not your dad's mother, then she will not be your blood relative. If she had children with your granddad then they will be blood relations of yours. Her ancestors will not be blood relatives either (unless she was related to her husband.....but let's not go there......!) ''and say my mums mum brother had a child and that child had a child would the last child be a blood relative?'' All of those people will be your blood relatives. Merry

Thank u everyone xxxxxxxxx this might sound daft but is this a blood relative of mine say my dads dad married a lady would her parents be my blood relatives and then would both thier parents be blood relatives etc? and say my mums mum brother had a child and that child had a child would the last child be a blood relative? See how confusing I am and get myself lol Total newby that needs to get a life I think lol Love Angie xx

I agree with what Merry said, my tree has direct ancestors, their siblings and spouses and any children. I also have a set of sisters, who married brothers and have got their parents as well. I will also include the parents of a siblings spouse, if I find tehm living together on the census, which you often do. I don't have all of these on my tree here though. Lynn :- )

Lol Merry - sometimes I get carried away with the ''in-laws'' - find someone on my tree who married into an interesting family and then can't help myself but to start putting their ancestors on too. Quite often too, I get ''hot matches'' to one of the spouses on the tree (i.e. not a blood-relative) and, in trying to answer the hot-match member's queries, end up following their family back a few generations too. Like you, when I get an obvious inter-marriage I also go back on the non-relatives, just to work out the connection. Ah well, it passes the time!

You can include whoever you like on your tree!! it's yours to do what you like with! I include anyone who is a blood relative and anyone who married a blood relative, but not the ancestors of anyone who married a blood relative. The only exceptions to this are where two (or more!) people who are related to each other, have married my blood relatives. (such as two sisters who married two brothers who were my ggg-uncles). In this case I have included the two girls parents, in order to show they are sisters. The only other exception I have is a load of relatives of someone who married my gggg-aunt. Usually I would include none of these ''hanger-on'', but I kept finding refs to them on the internet and wasted so much time trying to see if they were one of mine and then finding they were not, I decided to put the whole lot of them on my tree, so I would remember who they are in future! You do as you please!!! Merry

Angela - I would say that it's entirely up to you just how much info you want on your family tree and how far backwards and sideways you choose to go. Not sure if you were referring to Genes tree in particular - if that's the case then maybe it's wise not to add too much of the tree on here otherwise you will be bombarded with Hot Matches every day. Maybe this is what you were referring to. But with your tree in general nobody can say when you have to stop researching and adding to it (hopefully you will have your main tree info stored somewhere other than on Genes).

Well the most distant rellies on my tree are 12th cousins!!! It all depends on how far you want to go really... my philosophy is that if we share a common ancestor, and if I have enough evidence to convince myself that the relationship is proved, then I add them on. But like everything else in this hobby, it's your choice who you choose to include and who to leave out. It is a hobby after all, and you're not going to get fined for not having enough or having too many rellies!

It really is up to you what you include, or do not include, on your tree. Some people only like to research direct ancestors, that is parents, grandparents, great grandparents etc. etc. Others will want to include the siblings of the above. Others will want to include the children of the siblings, and their children, and their children´s children etc! It´s your tree - you choose !!

I will add anyone who has a bloodlink with me. This includes all umpteenth ggchildren of umpteenth gg parents. I will also add their spouses, spouses siblings and parents. I consider anyone outside these parameters to be too distant.

Hi Everyone x Ive noticed people saying Rellies are too distant to be included on family tree whats too distant mean? This is what ive added to my tree my parents thier parents then dads grandad and thier siblings and so on so on not added any 1st cousins yet (well only 6) as i dont know thier dates of births yet (I had 8 aunts n uncles on mums side and they all had loads of kids lol dont think they had tellies lol) so am I including rellies too distant? if ya understand what I mean cus ive just confused myself lol. Luv Angie xx