I, too just smile, when I look at the trees I know are copied from my earlier research, and think "why did you bother ?" or "why haven't you found that out ?"
Few have ever even altered the date of death from "after 1881" which is where I was up to back then - ancestry sometimes drops the "abt", so all these people who I had dying in 1881 are now dead in several other trees.
I am amazed that not one of them, and sometimes there are several, have ever bothered to follow up anything they copied from me.
I don't think any one person who copied my tree has ever queried anything I did, or sent me back a "you had this info, but now I have found this". I seriously doubt they have even ever looked at their ancestry or gr trees again, let alone mine.
But that's their loss, as there is so much more available on-line now, they could find out lots more about our/their family if only they tried !!!!
Di
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