@Ceri Logan yes, that's very helpful. One other thing I'd add; I've realised that there's an awful lot of nonsense on many family trees on Ancestry! So many of the 'hints' that pop up for me are based solely on what other people have included in their family trees; and I'm sure they just adopted them because they come up as hints from someone else's tree... etc., etc., etc. Sometimes I know they are wrong; my grandparents, and their siblings, are 'credited' with additional spouses or children that I know don't exist.... Anyone else notice that people who lived and died in Europe are shown as having emigrated to the US at some point? (I'm beginning to think that there are some genealogists in the US who think EVERYONE emigrated to the US...😂) I now don't accept any 'hints' based solely on other people's family trees. Unless it's documented (photos, official records, gravestones, documents) I'm not going including it.

@Sonize Weakley I was wondering about those Geneanet Community Tree Indexes! What are they?

Hi. Thanks for setting this up. I'm interested to see how it develops. My family are Jewish. My father's family came to England around 1900 from what was then the Russian Empire, and my mother's family came from Germany in 1938 & 1939, so refugees from persecution on both sides. When my mother died last October, I inherited over a thousand family photos going back to around 1850. Thankfully, my grandmother has made notes on the back of most of them; names, often dates, sometimes notes and stories; and she and my grandfather had both drawn rough family trees. I knew if I didn't attempt to make sense of it, it would never happen; I (and my brother and sister) were the last in our family to have heard the stories of Germany from my mother and her parents. Over the last few months I pieced all that together, added what I knew of my father's side of the family, and produced a photobook, really to ensure we preserved what we had. And then I decided to go further and (after looking at several genealogy sites) took out an Ancestry subscription....that's me kept busy for about the next 150 years....😂