Genealogy Chat

At one point I overcame what had been a fairly large stumbling block thanks to picking the wrong marriage record. My dad had told me that his paternal grandparents were Thomas Jones and Mary Ann Evans; his dad was born in 1903 so I started off by searching the few years before that for a pge with those two names on. Having found none, I then recalled that he'd told me that his dad had always been known by his middle name, so I wondered if his grandfather had been also. Sure enough, I found a marriage of David Thomas Jones and Mary Ann Evans in the right area in 1899. Hypothesis confirmed, went on to find both of them on earlier censuses, everything fine... or not. I found his grandmother in 1901 - unmarried. I eventually found the right entry for their marriage, but it's strange how the wrong one put me on the right track. Wish all the other wrong turns I've managed so far could have done the same...