Mike's Rule #3 - Your Ancestors Lied

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   Your ancestors lied. Your parents probably lied to you when they said, “Don’t have sex before you are married, we didn’t “.  I call BS.  Look at your family tree and you can find all the shotgun weddings.  Take the date of first-born child minus their marriage date and oops, do the math.  Then your family starts lying about those dates not knowing that the genealogists in the family will eventually have access to the records.  A family tree based on lies is a work of fiction.  It is our job as genealogists to get to the facts, whatever they may be.