Hi David, Added to what I just said. If a wife remarries then I record her new husbands full name and date of Marriage and that is as far as it goes unless she remarries a brother of the deceased husband or someone else that carries the Grimason / Grimeson / Grimison surname in my ONS. Regards, David J Grimshaw (or is it Grimason?) Genealogical Researcher of the "Grimason" surname and variations of the "Grimason" surname World Wide. A One Name study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS): 6138 formerly 2962 The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some. On 23/04/2017 4:08 PM, Sherlock Holmes wrote: > Hi David, > With my ONS (One Name Study)what I do is record all the wife details > from birth to death I exclude her parents. > If it is a daughter then, birth, marriage details along with whom she > married of course, if this happens. > If the daughter does not marry then her death and that is it otherwise > one would get side tracked fairly quickly and you would no longer be > doing an ONS. > > Regards, > David J Grimshaw (or is it Grimason?) > Genealogical Researcher of the "Grimason" surname and variations of the > "Grimason" surname World Wide. > A One Name study registered with the Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS): > 6138 formerly 2962 > The "Sherlock Holmes" of this family according to some. > > On 23/04/2017 9:27 AM, David Skyrme wrote: >> 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/