To Split or Not to Split

I was researching some information for my family today, and I realized that I had 151 names. That may be nothing to some, but it is quite overwhelming for me. Plus, my extended relatives keep extending. My husband's step-grandmother's (whom he has never met) family is getting more hints on ancestry than my own family.

So, my thought was to split the families from his and mine. Which actually may be good because I can isolate his tree and our trees would combine at our marriage. Another reason to split the tree is because of adoption. I was adopted by my great-uncle, my husband was raised by his stepfather, and his mother was (presumably) adopted by her grandmother-in-law. For family political reasons, I would like a genealogy of my biological family without it creeping into my main family tree.

However, splitting my main family tree would be difficult. I have much reasearch on my paternal grandmother's side, but almost nothing on my paternal grandfather's side and nothing on my maternal side. Maybe by splitting the in laws and the adoptions, I can concentrate on filling in cousins on my paternal grandmother's side and dig deeper on the paternal grandfather's side, which is swamped by all the other family members on my tree.

Update

Well, I had previously written about how my husband's father did not get his inheritance from his father's will. Well, we found a copy of the will. Now we are looking for a probate lawyer to look at the will to see if there's anything my husband and his brother can do. This is pretty exciting stuff.

On another note, ancestry.com has a new feature. Now you can see people who have saved the same information as you. I foud that 3 people have saved the same information as me in the past 3 months, and I sent them a message.