My biggest mistake was researching the wrong Lenhart family for several years, thinking they MUST be my grandfather's family because of the unusual name although there was no birth record for him and he never appeared on any census with them. Apart from the name I did have the excuse that the family story was that his family had a shop in London and these people had a tobacconist and confectionary shop in Tottenham. I now know they were nothing to do with my family who were actually Americans from New York but I didn't find that out until after I had bought lots of certificates and compiled quite an extensive file of information for the wrong family. I still have it.
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