Family trees can be very helpful for clues in researching your ancestry. But it is important to use them wisely and appropriately, with the same standards that we apply to other resources.

Just like our yards at home, pruning our family trees is an important activity. It must be done regularly to ensure that as the tree grows, it continues to flourish with accurate information. And so that we can be certain that the people we have recorded in our trees are actually related to us.