Regarding incorrect information from pre-internet days. Many years ago, part of my husbands family was divided by a name change.
The Hargreaves side of the family picked up a birth in the English indexes and decided this man came out to Australia, and somewhere along the line, one of the family changed their name to Sanderson.
The Sanderson side believed the opposite, that a Sanderson changed his name to Hargreaves.
What the Hargreaves side missed was a death entry for that child, a few months later, which was picked up by a Sanderson researcher.
All was revealed when DNA testing became widely available, when DNA matches were made across several families.
I think I have told this story before, when the DNA researchers were threatened with legal action by the Hargreaves if they published "such nonsense" as "the DNA must be wrong". Those people will never correct their trees, as they don't believe there are any errors.
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