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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

I'd agree with all of those. I think some are more common since the boost to the obsession from TV programmes like WDYTYA.

I may have been guilty of a couple (1 & 10) but in the early days of my research, not so much now.

Thanks Gloria

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Mel

Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery!

Same here Mel, also number 8, I had an "ancestor" for a couple of years, who I took back for decades, only to find out he wasn't mine at all, not even the right name.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

I once married a woman off to the wrong man. The woman was a sibling of my ancestor and I didn't develop the line further other than census returns. No harm done in this instance but made me more careful, particularly with common names!

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Mel

Searching for lost relatives? Win the Lottery!

Happened to me early days, but won't happen again! A combination of taking someone else's tree as gospel and them assuming we were related to someone famous. When I finally decided to verify it, amy years later, I discovered that my dad's cousin's tree was good for several generations but then created a link to the famous person by 'inventing' a brother for him. Trouble is that tree is all round the family and no-one will accept it's wrong because 'he went to Ireland and really went into ito all'. Ah well.

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Maureen
If you can't fight, wear a big 'at

So go on then, name the famous person you are not related to

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Not that famous - unless you're an Irish Catholic! Archpishop John McHale. Every McHale in the world seems to be trying to attach themselves to his tree

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Maureen
If you can't fight, wear a big 'at