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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have never made a comment on Brent’s notion of a canonizer that I can recall, but something occurred to me today. AncestryDNA created something like a canonizer as an offspring of their DNA project. That project allowed people to construct family trees like nobody’s business. It really took off where written records generally failed. It was what allowed me to figure out that an error had been made on my great great grandfather’s death certificate, which caused his mother in law to be listed as his mother on numerous online family trees.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After the DNA evidence proved otherwise, I laboriously contacted those with the wrong name on there and offered both the correct name along with the story on how the error occurred. Gradually and canon was corrected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now anyone can put together a biologically accurate family tree, thru the collective effort which constructed over the last two decades, public records and DNA evidence to prove it all out.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The plethora of family trees, taken as a collection, guide one into the right answers, along with documentation and in some cases DNA evs. This is a kinda specialized version of Brent’s more generalized concept of a canonizer perhaps.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>