Revisiting My Roots: A Case in Point Several posts ago, I talked about how I "believed" others who had built the family tree before I started researching. I put a lot of "trust" out there. "I believed everyone out there doing genealogy on the same families as me had been doing it longer and therefore must know more than I did, must have found the records already, and therefore their pedigrees, family group sheets, and trees posted online were correct."

Thought you could trust all those old online trees? I just uncovered a long-believed Avery–Meeker mix-up that proves otherwise. My latest genealogy cleanup turned up a surprise… #GenealogyResearch #FamilyTreeFinds #GenealogyMistakes #ResearchCleanup