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Originally Posted by BlueSavannah
I've come across a few online contacts that have openly admitted that they have copied stuff without checking and dont seem bothered, but this was the first time I had actually met someone who openly admitted what he had done and didnt care less about if there were errors or not. Makes you wonder why bother looking at your family tree if you dont really care that much if the info you have is wrong. It kind of defeats the object of wanting to know where you come from.
I will remember to just smile nicely if I meet someone like that again  |
I don't understand them either.
I find it fascinating to track down a Will or newspaper article or other piece of trivia which gives an insight into my ancestors (and some of my husbands, as some of them were especially interesting).
I would love to understand why Thomas Brazill or Guy Cole, both aged in their 70s, decided to upstakes and move to the colonies ? Both seemed in reasonable circumstances and left married daughters behind to come to NSW or Victoria with their wives, sons and grandchildren.
Alo, its important to me to document some of our relatives who died in the World Wars who were only children and have no close relatives to remember or honour them on Anzac and Rememberance Days.
We shoud all smile nicely at such people who just copy a tree so they can have one, and pity them for what they are missing !