Hey All,
would anybody care to comment on the legal ramifications arising from a family tree - that having reached its earliest known ancestor - who has no known origins past or future - simply disappearing- but leaves a spouse and 4 children - is foisted onto another tree in an attempt to create a continuous lineage stretching back to the earliest BMD registrations in England which is 1598 as I recall presently.
Be most interested to read ALL comments on this
Rodc 
The more I read this post the less I understand this post.
Are you asking what the legal ramifications of adding one family tree to another family tree are?
If so the answer is unless the person doing that was commissioned to research the family history, libels another or was using the combined tree to gain some for of advantage there would be no legal ramifications.
Works of fiction are works of fiction.
On the other hand you mention “simply disappearing- but leaves a spouse and 4 children” if he has deserted his partner and children there could be maintenance issues outstanding with all the legal ramifications involved.
As a final note your mention of “earliest BMD registrations in England” is confusing.
Do you mean for that particular family?
Or do you mean the first BMDs in England were recorded in 1598, if this is what you mean there were many Births, Marriages and Deaths recorded in England centuries before 1598 and may be registered in Heralds Visitations and in Monastic Cartularies.
Cheers
Guy
