Genealogy restarted

[johnridley]

Thanks to kevinnickerson for pointing out the free PAF software. I'll certainly be buying the extra graphing addon, for $7 it does nicer graphs than FTM.

I loaded the software up today and started doing data entry, keeping only to the parts of the tree that I'm sure are reasonably accurate. I'm not done with that part yet, but I've got 331 individuals in so far and I've still got a fair chunk of relatively direct family. I have cites on a fairly small number, but I plan to do a bunch of printing of parts and mailing them around to a few people for verification.

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[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I did that a few years ago at a family reunion. I had to limit it to just that branch of the family, to make it reasonable. The full data set that I have has 3800 individuals, and even then I had to just start saying "no, this is too much" and stop when I got to 10th removed cousins, etc. And I'm not sure of the data in many cases.

Honestly, at this point my brother has grandkids that I don't even know their names, they've just turned into a swarm to me. I don't get there enough to know what's going on, my only news source is my mom, and I can't keep her talking about the same thing for 30 seconds straight.