Assumption has always been my downfall.
My father spent a lot of time with his maternal grandmother and talked fondly of her. I entered her into my tree and spent many years and much ££££ tracing her family back 200 years - this was pre internet of course. Finally I constructed my internet tree and tidying up loose ends, was horrified to discover she was a late second wife to my great grandfather and no blood relative at all. 200 years worth of research gone to pot.
Another occasion which makes me burn with embarrassment is a comment I left on someone's ancestry tree about him having the wrong wife for someone. No he didn't have the wrong wife, I did, caught in my usual trap of parallel families.
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