I have a great grandfather named John Smith who moved across the country before marrying my great grandmother. Tracking down anything on his branch before they got married has been basically impossible.
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I'm in Wales, and my family are all Thomas, Davies, and Edwards, so I know your pain. To make it worse, on the Thomas branch, they named a load of kids after the parents and grandparents, so there are duplicates everywhere 🙈
One of my great great grandmothers. She appears in records in London as a teen. But there's nothing on her or her mother before then anywhere in the country. She doesn't even have that common a name. There's only one other person with her name in the greater London area at that time, and she married someone else and had several kids with him, right when my g-grandmother was pregnant more than once (that was an annoying rabbit hole/waste of time!). So I know it's not her.