Hi list, I found this whole subject fascinating. When I started out 30 years ago, I decided that the women were as important as the males, and in that way, doubled up with every generation as far as I could go. I found some fascinating connections with my own families. And cousins I never knew I had. I still have a long way to go to find more, but still, they are there somewhere. Shortly, I shall be staying on land that holds a Roman grave, and nearby is a neolithic gravesite. Now, of course, I don't know of any personal connection, but heck, that far back, no one can tell who is related to whom, so I suppose we all belong in one way or another anyway. And with the help that a lot of people give on these lists and outside too, we do have a lot in common and that must come from womewhere in our genes long ago.l Well, that is my little contribution over, all the best to everyone, whatever they think their family consists of. Maureen, Rhondda. In a message dated 05/07/2011 10:53:51 GMT Daylight Time, tadip44@cinci.rr.com writes: John - et al I, as most searchers, have something of the same dilemma, but until I have some documented evidence, I don't add their names to my tree. People of special interest/stories, are mentioned in the pre-amble to my tree (Tribal Pages). At the other end of the spectrum, I have an Australian relative who has everyone in the world in her tree, with very little objective evidence to back it up. Terry -----Original Message----- From: glamorgan-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:glamorgan-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Charani Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:49 AM To: John Cc: GLAMORGAN@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GLA] Family Tree Parameters John wrote: > My question today is "how far from the main trunk of our family tree's > should we research? > Currently I am out to 4th and 5th cousins, is this too far? I appreciate > that the answer could be in the eye of researcher, however, what do you > greatly experienced researchers think? You set your own parameters. There's no right or wrong way to research a tree or how far to take it back or sideways. I'm currently working with three cousins on a quite complex branch of the family. Two of those cousins are 4th 1 R (4C1R)and one's a 5th. My mother considers a tree should be straight back on the male line only and NOTHING sideways or any females who've married in. There was a researcher who announced on one list he'd completed his tree and was unsubbing. He'd got back to 1837 and the start of civil registration. Since following back some 30 different branches and twigs, some of which are only related by marriage, I've found some fascinating families. Some of them have glorious names, some have interesting lives and some have very convoluted, complex intertwined families. The choice is yours :)) -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk http://www.savethegurkhas.co.uk/ -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message