This is why I get crabby when people complain that adding an extra click to Ancestry tree hints is slowing them down, or that downloading record images takes too much time, or that searching for information on Ancestry (much less on another website or, heaven forfend, offline) is too much work, or that it’s unfair that they can’t just copy whole chunks of someone else’s tree.
Those dates in the top left corners of my family worksheets are start and end dates. Sometimes it’s pretty straightforward, and I finish working on a family in a week or two. But sometimes it’s not that easy. And it is never a matter of just hoovering up other people’s tree vomit.
But also? Those tree hints are based on the trees of people like me, who do the actual research. And then our punishment is to listen to others complain about hints, or complain about how the people doing actual research are somehow being selfish.
red paper boat 