To create or not create a profile

Question

What should I do about people I have information on, but don't want to manage a profile for?  For example, I have a little information on the parents of my great-grandfather's first wife.  Unless I discover some other connection with that family, I don't have any interest in researching them.  If I set up profiles for them, then they count against my limit.  I have over 30,000 people in my database, and given the profile limits even for experienced WikiTreers, it seems clear that I can't add all of them.  So where do others draw the line?

Comments

Hi Cheryl,

In addition to the answers already provided, I would share this...

You can add 30,000 or more.  It's only your watchlist which is to remain under 5,000 or 10,000 depending.  The watchlist is comprised of profiles you manage or are on the trusted-list for.

Please...enter them all :)

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Okay, that seems reasonable.  How do I remove myself as profile manager?  I must be missing something really obvious.

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You can remove yourself under the Privacy tab.

Answer 1

You could always create the profile and then remove yourself as profile manager, that is as long as they have a death date or were born over 100 years ago. That way the profiles would be on WikiTree and if you ever found more information they could be edited later without adding yourself to the trusted list.

Answer 2

It seems that you're already thinking clearly about the issue.  Draw the line wherever you are comfortable.

If you have a source for the family member, I like to include it in their relative's profile, so someone else who wants to create the profile has access to it.  In your example, something like "John's first wife was Jane Smith; b. 1 Nov 1937 in Kalamazoo, IN, d. 15 Mar 1962 in Wayne, IN<ref>Source Citation Here</ref>.  Her parents were Fred and Wilma Smith.<ref>Source Citation Here</ref>"

I do this more often for children:

Children:

#Barry, b. 1762, d. 1810, m. Sally Jones<ref>Source Citation</ref>

#Bethany, b. 1763, d. 1805, m. John Collins<ref>Source Citation</ref>

etc.

I recommend trying to include any info for family members that you have sources for.