Here's the thing :)I never met my great-grandmother and there is no-one still alive that can tell me anything about her or even show me a picture. That doesn't make her any less relevant to me. Back to your point, though. Personally, I think fiction should be 100% fiction, disclaimer or not. Making up stories about real people is what started the hysteria about witches in the first place. It got my uncle, my blood kin, hanged by idiots as a witch. It's disturbing to me. The reason I said anything to begin with is because I understand where this man is coming from. It's his family, it's my family, I don't like people talkin smack about my family especially in books and movies, of all things. Under the guise of fiction, someone can take your name and one tiny fact about your life, or anybody in your family dead or alive, add whatever is in their head to make it interesting, and make a best-selling novel about it. In what way would that not suck for you? Maybe you don't believe that when you die your soul goes somewhere, or that your family members that have passed watch over you, I don't know. One way or another, the very least we can do to acknowledge their exsistance is to respect them in memory and protect their name.