This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Manes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/785.2.1 Message Board Post: This is not a criticism. But, most of these early genealogies are confabulations that are created from a variety of records. They are often not fact but speculation. It doesn't mean they are substantively wrong either, but if you can find one that is 80% correct it is a good thing. David