I'm going to dare take issue with convention here.
I believe pedigrees are important and have value because the original owners were collectors, before collecting was a "thing." Think about it. We, as collectors in an era when it is relatively easy, have mad respect for our predecessors who lived in homes about 1/4th the average square foot of today with the entire family (or freakin' worse, in an internment camp). Yet despite war paper drives, no place to stash 'em, etc., these few guys are girls went against the grain/convention and held their copies - as we do now (but they did it when it was "super odd"). Hence we pay our respects in form of a pedigree premium to the few pioneers who in fact helped make the hobby even possible - by saving the copies which otherwise would be completely lost to time.