Surnames vs. Bloodlines-Dispelling Myths           Published Monthly
Lesson 045...                                                                                                            2019 07 01

Defining The Problem...
Accuracy... Or in-accurracy?
The answer depends on whether you're finding lineage, or simply building a family tree of members.

While it's very easy to follow another family tree, there are many inherant pitfalls that can arise.
It can be time consuming...Give false/mis-leading data...Or have other wrong lineages.

Most novice builders/onlookers might think trees reflect known lineages because "someone checked".
We are each that "someone" that should be checking for those documentation sources.

Due to the size of most family trees, finding birth certificates for all would take more than a lifetime.
We're forced to use other means like census files and death certificates-Or worse yet, other trees!
While established trees may be respected for fullness, without birth certificates, it's uncertain.

Thousands of census sheets have children listed as son or daughter that were either step or adopted.
Death certificate information is given by surviving friends or relatives while upset, to a career official.
In reality, unless each person in the tree has an attached birth certificate, we can never be certain.

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