Genealogy Chat

Do you put everyone who is related to you ? For example, I have my G.G Grandmother and her siblings on my tree, do you put in the sibling's marriages and children ? Or do most people stick to their direct line.... It would certainly fill my tree out if I decide to put them all on !! :o)

I have but I think its personal choice. In all honesty, I've found some of the siblings more interesting than some of my direct line for various reasons. Its also worth paying close attention to siblings, you never know when a 'missing rellie' might turn up staying with one of them on census night! Lou

Hi Andrea I put on my tree anyone who is genetically related to me (and, although not technically correct, I treat an adoptive parent as if they were genetically related). So for example, all my great great grandmother's siblings are there, plus all their children, and their children's children, because we share genes. For the sake of completeness I include the person each of them has married, but not the ancestors or siblings of that person (no shared genes). For me, the point of this website is hopefully to make contact with people who are related to me, even if only remotely, and also hopefully to share information with them. If I restrict myself to my direct line, I am not going to find any cousins, and they may know more about my great great great grandmother than I do. Sharing information is a great part of the fun. Hope this helps. Tina

Finding Siblings and their family do help. For some reason we were trying to find our gg grandfathers brother, not sure why now, but it turns out tracing them and the death of his wife really did help with the link to our family in Bath. We didn't have our ggg grandfather on any census because he died before 1839, we have his children born in Bath and his wife born in Wilts. We though we had ggg's birth in Bath, but without any idea of his birth place we could not be 100% sure. The death of his daughter in law in Bath with his sister, (Aunt by marriage) is the link which proves ggg was from that family in Bath. So go ahead and hunt them and add them to your tree. Irene

I add everyone who is related by genes or marriage. In this way several contacts have been made that have then been able to supply information to add to the direct line.

Thanks folks. I'm going to put them on, I might end up with a tree after all..... rather than the family twig I have at the moment ! Andrea

My thinking is, the more names you add, the more chance of finding someone who is looking for them and that person may have info about your family that will help your research.