Who has the biggest one.....

STUARTDALGLEISH · Post by **STUARTDALGLEISH** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:27 am

With a very tiny tree so far 115 families and 400 names I have a tree of about 26 feet long which I am going to have printed out and placed in a lovely oak frame which i have made. Unfortunately due to this "hobby".....torture sometimes comes to mind I keep adding new people therefore constantly updating. It got me wondering about how the rest of you share this information that you have. If I dropped deid the morra nobody knows my username and password so all my hard work would be lost. How do you all display or is it in the Ringbinders that we all have in the puter room full or birth/marriage and deid people.

Andy, I'm sure I've read you have 15,000 people, you must surely be related to half the users on here..just hope you have a big wall.

So who's going to win?

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:17 am

Hi Stewart,

If I'd stopped at just my immediate naming lines, Keogh and Kelly, I could write out the tree on a postage stamp!! 157 Keogh's their spouses and offspring, and 47 Kellys spouses and offspring (okay a big postage stamp).

Both lines originate in Ireland but both my Keogh and Kelly Great Grandfathers were born in America and while I have the names of both parents and both grandfathers haven't been able to locate them in Ireland yet.

However, from my earliest McQuilkins/McCurdys on Rathlin there are very nearly a thousand folk in the various branches since 1760 (big, healthy Catholic families). A few of the TS members are related, very laterally, through these lines, Ina for one.

My earliest proven lines are to a Johne McRannall from about 1650 and, through contacts with a great many other branches of this family Johne's descendants are approaching two thousand so far (I'd traced a good few lines to the mid 1880's myself but other long lost rellies research tied in with mine and they provided up-to-date details which, because other research matches, I tend to believe). Johne's son's father-in-law is my earliest 1627, but I just have his name and place of death.

A few (three so far) other folk on TS are related on my Barony Wilson branches and have provided up-to-date details for three of my Great Great grandfathers siblings.

Sporran and I are almost certainly related through a legendary Chieftan Gilchrist Makuredy of Bute and more tenuosly throgh very very lateral marriages along both our McCurdy/McCurdie lines.

I've also got a considerable amount of info from g-g-g grandparents Riddell, Drennan, McConway and Lynch. They all add up and I shudder to think how much I've spent!!!

Some people on "My" tree aren't related at all to me but, through research for others, I've found them marrying into the family. I'm now good pals with the husband of a third cousin who I "Met" online and have included a few of his lines too.

I also have some uncles and aunts by marriage included, again not directly related but I figure I'm closer related to them through marriage than Prince Charles who whitters on about his "Ancestors" Henry IIIV etc. AND he's not had to fork out a fortune to trace his lines.

STUARTDALGLEISH · Post by **STUARTDALGLEISH** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:17 pm

Fantastic Andy,

So who is your favorite person? the one you would want to meet if you could?

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:33 pm

Actually the one I'd like to meet most isn't directly one of mine. But is part of my Rathlin Island research.

This woman married a Lighthouse keeper, each of the Keepers took it in turns to go to the mainland to collect wages and provisions. During one of Mary's husbands turns he was robbed and murdered.

The authorities made Mary LIABLE for the loss of pay and provisions!!!!

Anyway, she didn't take it lying down and after a lengthy time won her case in the highest courts AND received compensation and pension.

Real Girl Power.