#the confirming unknown family lore has happened to me twice. i discovered my grandad is related to George formby and it turns out he already

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Discovering the bit of genealogy you did was indeed correct is so fun it's like having a detective genius moment. The reverse of that when you find some new document and it turns out that there were two people with the same name born at roughly the same time in the same place and you picked the wrong one sucks and now you have to go through and delete an entire branch of the tree sucks though. The similar but unrelated experience of thinking you've discovered some fun fact only to discover it was already in some form part of the family lore and nobody told you is just sort of meh. I'm sure confirming some known piece of family lore is very exciting but unfortunately nobody ever tells me anything so I've yet to experience that.