I agree with hallmark's reply #37. It's very easy to follow the wrong track if you take too much notice of online trees.
I know how wrong some can be. One set of my grandparents, lived for 30+ years in the same village where I was born, brought up 10 children there, ran a business which was taken over by my parents and died there. According to an online tree, while all that was happening, they somehow managed to have 6 more children in a town in another part of the county, born when grandma was in her 50s, all done without her ever leaving home!
My other grandma, an only child, has been wrongly allocated a brother by an online tree. Her maternal grandmother has multiple identities on Ancestry trees. One has her dead before her 2 youngest sons were born.
(My mother knew both sons.) Despite the fact that those 2 sons were with their father on a census, a tree owner had already killed the father off, 20 years prematurely.
There are many threads on RootsChat grousing about incorrect and misleading online trees.
