Hello Shel,

You can use a genealogy program as sort of a huge filing cabinet. If there
is a logical way to include someone, eg: the parents of your first cousin's
husband, there is no reason not to include them (barring an extreme shortage
of disk space.) When you are printing out trees of your own ancestors and
their direct descendants your cousin's machetunim probably won't show up but
the data won't be lost and who knows but that this may come in handy at a
later date.

I've even included people who share my MATZKIN name where I do not yet have
a known connection - but the data is there for whenever I do discover the
connection.

Regards,

Batya Matzkin Olsen, Concord, Massachusetts USA batya@...
Researching: EISENSHMID [any spelling] (Bialystok, PL),
KAYOTSKY (Vidzy, BY), KELMAN, KLONER (Postavy/Smorgon, BY),
MANFELD (Smorgon), MANFIELD (Sterling, Ill., US), RUNKIN,
MATZKIN (Vidzy & anywhere), ROSENBLUM (Postavy), SCHARER


Shel Bercovich wrote: