When I first indulged, I received some excellent advice from an elderly long-term member of the “Genealogist Society”.
I have been absorbed by genealogy for over forty-five years. When I first indulged, I received some excellent advice from an elderly long-term member of the “Genealogist Society”. His first point, I follow without fail “if you cannot prove it, you cannot claim it”; the next “skeletons in the cupboard everyone has and needs to be accepted before you begin”. I subscribe to Ancestry as an aid to tracing original source evidence which remains the guiding principle. Would I take any thing on Ancestry Public Trees as substantiation certainly not, too many are without research merit and incorrect with finds simply made to fit?