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I need opinions....
So, as you know, I've been working on my dad's family tree...from scratch. I have my instincts, one incomplete tree, and ancestry.com to go on. I have one great aunt who has been wonderful with information, but her memory isn't how it used to be plus she married into the family I'm researching so she doesn't know the ins and outs.
My dilemma. My great grandfather is Charley. Charley had a sister named Katie. Katie married a man who had 14 children from a previous marriage. (I know, I did this 
too). According to the 1920 census, 3 of those 14 children were living with Katie (one had died and the rest were married), plus 2 others between the year she married their father and the year the census was taken, so in all she "raised" 5 of her step-children.
So....do I include all 14 stepchildren and their respective families in my tree? These are my options:
1. include no step-children and only Katie's biological children
2. include only the step-children who Katie "raised" (i.e. I have proof that they lived with her) and not the ones who were married prior.
3. include a list of the step-children from her husband's previous marriage, but not their subsequent lineages.
And if it makes any difference, Katie and her husband had 8-10 children of their own that I have to catalog. I feel like I need to acknowledge she had step-children (because they're technically part of the family), but I don't know if I should totally run down their kids and grandkids and such.
Help....
Re: I need opinions....
I would include them. Stepfamilies are family too.
ETA: BTW, that is really cool you are doing that.
Agreed. Esp. because Katie was raising them as her own. You are inspiring me to visit Ancestry.com.
Thanks!! It's tough not knowing anything to start with besides my great grandparents names and DOB/DOD, but now I have a shitton of info that I'm not sure what to do with.
Another step-kid question....do I just include the ones she raised or all of them?? I want to include the ones she didn't raise (but I'm not sure if it's necessary to include their subsequent progeny) I don't want to totally exclude them, but I'm not sure the grandchildren of the stepchild of Kaite when said stepchild is 7 years older than his stepmother. KWIM?? I think if I just put their names/dates then anyone looking at the tree in years to come can dig up the info if they want it...
Is that bad?