Ralph Brandi on Nostr: As someone who has been researching his ancestry since before all this stuff was ...

As someone who has been researching his ancestry since before all this stuff was digitized, just a friendly reminder that anything you get from other people's trees is a clue, not proof. More helpful if they include citations, but there are a lot of family trees out there that are just plain wrong. The farther back you go, the easier it is to misinterpret the documents.