General Chat

I have a tree of 653

I have tried to stick to blood not being too diluted.

My "salt of the earth" liniage married wife after wife produced child after child.

I am proud of each and every one of them from the Scotish Highlands to the pits in the North East of England. The mariners from Penzance to the The WW1 casualty who never got to see his child and the WW11 prisoner of Stallag V11 who lived through hell more than once but was the backbone of his family. To the son of a Carting Contractor from Inverness who became a Golfing Professional and married twice for money to the German couple who came to England in the 1840s and made my Grandmothers Birth possible.

Each and every one of them had a meaningfull life and without them I wouldn't be here enjoying my own Grand children. In my quest to find them I have captured and sometimes cried over the transcripts I have found

An M&S voucher for my story no thanks it's worth so much more to me

ROSE
I JUST GOT THE SAME EMAIL...LOL

ROSE
I JUST GOT THE SAME EMAIL...LOL

I agree with what most of you have said - that it's not the size of the tree that's important, but the quality. The real Eureka moment is when we discover we have someone famous - Maggie's heaviest man, or Karen's WWII prisoner of Stalag VII, or Wend's chap who pioneered ultrasound, for example. Such fascinating stories we have amongst us, ALL of us!.
Anyone who knows anything about family trees would know that having ancestors like these mean far more than claiming your tree has 95,000 people in it.

So, for GR to ask who has the biggest tree just goes to show, in my humble opinion, how little they know about researching one!!!
Are they just after a sales pitch? Wouldn't they be better to ask "Whose ancestor invented something we all use today", or Who had a war hero ancestor", that kind of thing.

K
...who seems to be a grumpy old woman today!!!

Maybe GR are out to catch the cheats - the ones who say they are related to you, ask for access to your tree, then copy the whole thing onto their own - just so they can say they have 'thousands' in their tree......and they aren't related to you at all. They are just collecting names. The size of the tree is important to them, although I can't see why.

I've got a long one : )
Ron at Genealogy printers sent me a printed copy of my tree for my sisters crimbo present and it is 31 1/2 feet long x 3 1/2 feet wide.