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How big indeed. I was walking though a church-yard with my grand-son when he spotted a stone with our name(Hayes) on it. I said that it wasn't one of ours to which he replied,"He must be some relation if his name was Hayes."

Can't argue with that kind of logic. So it could be a very big tree.

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Mine has 660 and that is more than enough for me to cope with. My Irish ancestors had large families and I'm concentrating on them for now. I like to find out about their occupations etc (some I've never heard of) , where they lived and history of the area. It would be so easy to just start adding names but I prefer to verify everything I can before adding them to my tree. I am aware of people with vast trees and wonder how long it has taken them to get where they are. One contact I made had several of my ancestors in his tree of nearly 15,000 but couldn't give me any information on any of those I asked him about.

First did my tree thirty years ago and it was exceptionally huge, 76 people I think.

When the computer turned up about seven years ago I started doing a bit more to it and found I could add up to two hundred names in a night.

It's not the same. Doing the research from primary sources meant every entry was an achievement. Online genealogy can very easily become name collecting.

My tree has about 1700 people and many are because my direct ancestors had so many children often reaching some where between 12 & 18,!
Of course many of these children did not survive but never the less they are my ancestors,
No one really famous yet,,, but some very interesting people and what is amazing is that some people where pursing similar things as some of my live people are today!! Medicine, Army. Nursing etc.

Haven't bumped into Einstein or Adam & Eve yet but......

Adam and Eve comes to mind..!!!

I just seem have trouble finding their Parish record entry for verification.?





Tony...:>))

How BIG, and I mean B.I.G, should a family tree be?
I’ve seen trees on this website with just one person, usually the owner, but not always; and the biggest one I’ve met just clocked 60000 (aye, sixty thousand) and counting.
So when does one become a name collector? Should a tree be just your ancestors, or just your blood relatives, or just your blood relatives and the in-laws? Or should you go for the population of the planet?
My daughter puts it like this, more or less “You’re related to everybody in the end, so why bother?” (That’s the young for you: they’ve got too much future to care about the past.)
And I reckon, on the handshake principle, that you’re probably only about five links away from anyone you want to be related to: Mother Teresa, Dr Mesmer, Charles Dickens, Mr Hitler…