I work in the same fashion apparently. I carry everyone who carries my surname and their spouses, but I don’t carry non-spouses who don’t carry the surname (i.e., daughters-in-law of sons) and their progeny. I waffle a bit on adoption-ins or adopt-outs (i.e., where a person at one time or another carried my surname or was reported in some source as carrying the surname. And I attempt to provide ‘closure’ on all females with the surname - minimally, on a name change at marriage and ideally, through death. But I never carry parents of non-surname spouses … that trends to lead to everyone in the world. Everyone has their own techniques and protocols, but holding to this works well for me, Scott Shenton (GOONS 5292) Indialantic, Florida, USA Shenton one name study http://shenton.tribalpages.com > On Apr 22, 2017, at 7:16 PM, Lori <lj_walker@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Hi David, > > I do much the same as you. I note all children of a female married Croasdale/dell and not much else. The spouses of all are a mixture, some I have the parents and birth and death dates, others I do not. My intention is to gather all of the relevant vital stats as much as I can. > > Of course, those with the surname are carried on through further generations as that is the purpose. I sometimes include other marriages of those who are widowed or divorced of a Croasdale just so I can keep track of these in the records. > > Again, the main concern is the one-name study, but I generally have the same information as you. One generation up and one down, as you put it. > > Lori Walker > GOONS 1190 > > -----Original Message----- From: David Skyrme > Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 4:27 PM > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Subject: [G] Scope of an ONS - Spouses families > > I have been doing an ONS for several years now, and I'm still undecided > on how much detail to record for spouses and family groups with > different names. Most of my time is spent constructing trees from raw > data by entering data into Family Historian. > > 1. For children, I generally do one generation, since the children's > mother is a Skyrme. I create new records for them but I am ambivalent > about how much detail I include beyond their birth dates. I enter all > the facts I find for the mother (census details etc) until her death, > but not for her husband if he outlives her. > > 2. For spouses, of either a male or female, I try to track them from > birth. I create records for their parents, and try to find their birth > and death dates. For siblings, however, I just tend to make a note in > the family group record, e.g. listing those found in censuses alongside > estimated birth year rather than add detail of their baptisms, > occupations etc. > > So my approach is one generation up, one down, but with an inconsistent > approach as to which records to create (vs. just a note) and what facts > to include for the person whose birth name is not Skyrme. > > I'd be interested in how others restrict their scope. > > David J Skyrme > > Skyrme Family and One-Name Study website - www.skyrme.info > Yardy Family and One-Name website - www.yardy.org.uk > Guild of One-Name Studies Reg. No. 6232 > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > Information and admin page: > http://one-name.org/guild-information-administration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message