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Stupid people?
Try this; go to Rootsweb's World Connect (because it's free).
Do not enter a surname, just click "Go". At the bottom of the screen, type in an impossible date and place, like born 1550 Plus or minus 20 years in MA, CT, VT, NY, RI, VA, NJ, etc. click Search, holding on to something.
I was shocked to find that California was a state in the USA before 1700. All this time I thought that is what the "Mexican War" was about in 1848!
Where did the info come from? The few sources given are WFT, AFN and someone elses gedcom. Stupidity perpetuated ad nauseum.

Try typing in "Bilbo Baggins" if you really want a laugh.

Ah, Jeff & Never, your posts struck a subject dear to my heart!
Years ago I wrote and published an article for our local Genealogy Society: "Where Oh Where, in OH?" fondly given the aka in a speaking presentation as "Ya Gotta Know the Territory".
As a searcher in OH, may I offer the following:
Not only is California in OH, but so is Africa, Columbia, (the) Congo, Elba, England. We also have TWO each: Cuba and Egypt.
FYI: Eden is also located in OH, but I am still unable to place an ancestor as being born there
We also have 11 places names Five Points, 10 named Stringtown, 6 named Georgetown and the list goes on!
OH has both a County named Shelby and a Town named Shelby - not in the same place. Ditto for Franklin and Warren, etc. Many States have the same problem.
Oral tradition for Grandfather: b. New Hampshire, 1876.
Truth: New Hampshire, Goshen Twp, Auglaize Co OH.
Above data obtained using a DeLorme Map book of OH. But then, there are those of us who can read - and those who....