Opinions on estimate years
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Hello! I strongly dislike when people put random birth or death dates for individuals that have no sources or rationale to back it up. I've seen this mess up trees and make absolutely 0 sense. So because of this, I only put source backed dates or estimates that I'm 90% sure about. Today I was working with a branch of my family tree. My 2x great grandfather had 5 brothers. I know the order of their births, and I know 2x great grandpa was the youngest and was born in 1888. How bad is it if I put each brother as separated by 2 years (ie: 1880, 1882, 1884, 1886, 1888)? Based on when their kids were born, the estimates would make sense. This specific branch comes from an area that doesn't have records from that time, so it's all word of mouth. I have the urge to do it, but don't want to potentially spread any misinformation (this is a searchable tree on Ancestry). What should I do?