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From: Simon Potter <>
Subject: Re: [FHU] Recording unconnected people
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 08:57:54 +0000 (GMT)


You sometimes come across a seemingly unconnected "Visitor" in a census
household who later turns out to have maried a relative, or give some
other clue for future fruitful research. Many of my 19thcerntury
relatives employed servants and, when I started this addiction some
years ago, I didn't record their details fromthe cenusue entries. I
now regret this as having these people in my gedcom, with FH query
tools would give lots of intersting information, not to mention the
contacts from their relatives.

I'm not sure if genesreunited
handles different "pools" of unrelated individuals. My impression was
that everyone has to be connected to Root.

Simon Potter


From: "Steve Corrigan" <>
Subject: [FHU] Recording unconnected people
To: <>

Slightly off-topic this:

What is the general view on adding non-family members. For example,
witnesses, apparently unrelated people in the same household, householders
where family members are employed as servants, etc.

It has occurred to me that if trees are published on sites such as Genes
Reunited, contact in connection with some of these unconnected or apparently
unconnected individuals could be very lucrative. For example, records of
well-to-do families might include the only extant photograph of a family
member as a servant; family records might include reference to employment.

Steve Corrigan



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