Did you grow up believing something about your family that you came to find was untrue?

Did you grow up believing something about your family that you came to find was untrue?
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My father’s father used to say we were descended from a bank robber named Cooper, and he changed his name. I have done a lot of genealogy, and haven’t found anything like that.
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