My uncle has sent me family trees that he researched a long time ago without a computer. I am tryingto put his trees into GRAMPS. Should I put everything into one big tree, or make one tree for each related family name?

My opinion: Everyone is related to everyone. Make it one tree. As a side effect, this will save you a huge amount of time dealing with place records, and probably some time dealing with sources and citations.

If a family name is related they’re one tree, unrelated families can have a separate tree.

One tree, for all sorts of reasons, like place records, but also because they may have connections. And for those that interested, you can always create reports for their part of the family.

I agree with @bgee . It will be easier in all regards to maintain one database. If at some point you want a report of just one branch of the tree, that can easily be done using a filter. A way to think about it… you could have your family tree, and you could have a separate tree for your wife’s famil…

A single tree is preferable because it is much easier to maintain the common areas: the Place hierarchy, common census & other broad application sources. Gramps makes it fairly easy to export a tree stripped to a branch. However, when trees start to exceed about 30 or 40 thousand people, things can…

My tree is only about half that size, but is growing. Gramps is one of my two most demanding applications. My Windows desktop is nearly five years old. When I replace it, what aspects (CPU, memory, SSD etc) will affect the performance of Gramps most? David Lynch

[image] dlynch: Gramps is one of my two most demanding applications. My Windows desktop is nearly five years old. When I replace it, what aspects (CPU, memory, SSD etc) will affect the performance of Gramps most? SSD for certain. Gramps is very drive intensive. Then probably memory. Its leas…

Thank you for your replies. I am going to go with one big tree.

Note, for information. I still have a very old configuration (with gramps 5.1.4), as alternate backup, and for some local use (no network). So, just an OS upgrade, using few ressources and having a recent kernel; The device has a pre-failure and old dated HDD of 40GB with 8341 PowerCycle (I know, t…

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