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Genealogists often find their ancestors by accident.
An example of this is when you are looking in a particular resource for one family and stumble on to evidence of another family, one you had not thought to find there. These surprises happen to all of us. It's part of what we do in genealogy. Accidents usually happen because we were looking in the right place and didn't know it. The ancestor's full name is obviously important to the process of discovery, and knowing a general time period when that person lived is important too.