Good morning Keith and everyone!! Another hot day in store on the upper Mojave (near Death Valley and Mt Whitney in case your interested). Last week I adopted some Kees orphans and got some Smiths in the round up. the Kees/Keys were mine, and the smiths were too. Now, I have made it a rule, which has stood for the 36 years I've been doing genealogy, not to work on Smith and Jones or any of the top 100 common names unless there was just NO alternative. And now there appears to be no alternative and finding records for the 1700s is harder for me on the internet. I'm learning tho. At least my Green's have uncommon first names, except that every Green son of John Green and Elizabeth Wroten has a Barzilla, Erbin, Aqulla, and Henry. Some of the Smiths I collected in that round up appear to have been from bad merges, either in the personal db, or the import from ancestry or even here at wikitree. duplication/triplication of children's names, children under wrong parents (I just love it when the child is born before the parents and lives to be 120.) I may not know all the kids names, but I'm reasonably certain that if the child is born in the early 1750s and the parents are born in the late 1760s, something is afoul. So I have been adopting more Smiths then I really care about, merging what matches, unlinking from one set of parents and linking to another, based on OPR. And trying other sources to find correct parents that make better sense and notifying those PMs. And that brings me to a 3rd rant.. but I think I'll let it go for now.