Yeah, would be fun to tell 'em you'd like an estimate but won't pay their airfare. LOL! But these need to just go quietly to the Great Bitbucket in the Sky.

Handy, that! LOL!

I use Ancestry to gather sources to investigate the suggestions I get from them. Those that come from other trees, I either ignore (because of errors I see right off) or consider them as leads for investigation. And from some trees, I can readily see that what they've done is copied MY info!

I keep asking myself: Why bother with AI when, in order to do the proper "reasonably exhaustive search," we have to go back and check everything the AI has given us? I go by an old advertising slogan: "Mother, please! I'd rather do it myself!"

I found the answer in an ad in a city directory to a question I had long held. I had heard my mother and my grandma talk about a man I had never met, as an old family friend. I had no idea who he was. I found him: my dad's co-worker listed in a half-page ad. Question answered.