Steve Hayes wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:15:09 -0400, Bob LeChevalier<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Steve Hayes<[email protected]> wrote: >>> You see this list of trees that all have things like "10472 >>> individuals" - so which one is the original and which ones are the copies? >> >> Why would it matter? The data is the same. I can't find the post where someone wrote the last line above. ONE of the reasons it matters is to trace the earliest assertion to assess the potential accuracy. If a family in New Orleans says their daughter married Gen. Benjamin Butler's son in 1876, they're only saying it because it's true and they can't plausibly deny it. If the General says it, same thing. But if the great-granddaughter of the New Orleans girl married a Connecticutite whose family history in 1995 says it -- probably wants looking into. Cheryl