[Gramps-users] Another one of those requests for suggestions about 'how to'.

[Michael C T. <mic...@gm...>]

I hope my asking questions like this isn't being a pest or PITA.

Again, I ask this question, not just for my own use but maybe to help others who, like me, are still in the early learning stages.

I have two basic choices (I think):
1) Create one huge tree for everyone from me and my wife back into time.
2) Create five trees.
   A) Me and my wife.
   B) My father and his ancestors/relatives.
   C) My mother and her ancestors/relatives.
   D) My wife's father and .....
   E) My wife's mother and .....

The reason for choice #2 is to address privacy concerns and to allow others in that particular branch of the family to see only that branch if/when I publish reports and documents. An example of this would be, there's no need for my maternal cousins to see my wife's paternal branch.

So I ask:

Am I worried about nothing?

Am I missing the obvious? (I usually put money on this one.)

How do others handle this sort of thing?

Do others have alternative ideas/approaches/suggestions for this sort of situation?

Obviously, if I'm being a dolt and looking at this wrong, please say so. I'm flying by the seat of my pants here so no advice will be wasted and I suspect others will benefit from the discussion.

I have one cousin who's said that now that her tree has 14,000+ entries, she wished she'd split hers. This is what prompted me to ask this here.

Thanks for everyone's time!