Charlotte Soares
Remember the schooldays’ logic: all cats have four legs, this animal has four legs therefore it must be a cat. But no, it’s a dog or an elephant! The same sort of jumping to conclusions often happens in genealogy when it comes to linking families, but it is fraught with dangers. Whole wrong lines get added to trees on genealogy sites because they weren’t checked rigorously. It takes time to verify and it’s much quicker to just merge someone else’s research, but who wants the wrong family attached?