Whoops, sounds as though I research too much on some occasions. I go more on who my ONS person knew or had influence on their lives, so try to find parents-in-law and other in-law relations, their grandchildren if they were still alive when babies were born, married or died. Difficult to find anyone who was adopted out or the natural parents and siblings of someone adopted in but if I am given the information they get included. A couple of times I only discover an adoption has taken place because they are named as such in a Will or court case. I include people who have my ONS surnames as their first or other names. Sometimes the link is so far back the present day holders don't know how it originated. I spent some weeks researching a spouse's cousin who married into a very interesting family that I traced forward ten generations :>) From Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. E-Mail: merryl.wells@one-name.org GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lori" <lj_walker@shaw.ca> To: <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [G] Scope of an ONS - Spouses families > 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