Michael
I have one pedigree from Stirnet which is taken from Visitations. It misses out all the embarrassing stuff, stuff which is actually vital for family history purposes and really does not make sense in its sanitised version. The truth emerged when I started to look at other documents, family papers and court proceedings etc.
There was also a fashion in Victorian times for people with more money than sense to commission a family tree. My great grandfather had one of these done and it is a tissue of fawning imagination without a shred of proof supplied. I expect other people also relied on these vanity trees and who knows whether they brandished them as "proof" of their lineage.
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