What do you and don't you know about pedigrees?

Papers... May they be with a registration or hand written.
They are maps of your dog. If you don't care to read them or learn about the dogs of their history. Then that is fine. If you don't care about your dog producing good or not... Then why breed them?
Your dogs are not any less awesome than what you believe they are to be.

Judge, No one denies that you or your dogs don't "hunger" for the game or shed those precious tears. That's not at all what I'm talking about.
Your dogs are good because A: they want to be (can't lead a horse to water and make him drink) B: because they want it, you have good guidance in their training C: exposing them to said Game

Their papers are for you to understand what makes them good (yes their history does make them good), and how they were formed from what dogs. Even if ol' Roy was bred to Daisy and made a whole litter of bad asses, you still know where they came from!
If they don't have papers, no room for understanding!
If an old man hands you a hand written pedigree, tells you about every dog in that pedigree so YOU can know what line of dogs your Dog comes from. That's some valuable information.
If you toss it aside For your Glorified whatever it is that you do without careing for what the old hard working dog man has done. Good for you...