Thankfully, mine’s not THAT common... lol
Mine is almost that bad for father’s father. John Bell of Pennsylvania. It’s almost the equivalent of John Smith. Mother’s father I can take into early 1600’s England and Scotland, thru TX, KY, TN and VA. Mother’s mother is the deadend. But father’s mother, good lord!! I never met father. Mother left him when I was 6 weeks old. But I found his mother’s obituary among photos mother was sent when he died. It said that her pallbearers were the Governor of Colorado and three generals. I knew then that I was going to be able to climb that branch of the tree! They LIVED in the newspapers all the way back into the 1600s.