genealogy: what's the most common thing families are wrong about themselves

@art_modeltrains+157

My family were certain we were Welsh. We are not remotely Welsh.

@h_pruitt_genealogy+151

Fathers, and it's not close. About one in twelve of the trees I've built has one somewhere and most families never find out.

@lindam_reads+144

How poor they were. Everyone thinks they're descended from people who had nothing, and a lot of them are descended from people who had a bit and lost it.

@e.voss.writes+138

The name change one is fascinating — most were never changed at Ellis Island, that's a whole myth, they were changed later and deliberately.