If you actually have nobility in your pedigree, chances are you don't have to go hunting for that, you're already in some peerage book or other.
As an example of what can happen, one of my ancestors was named Valentine Peyton, which at first blush seems like it should be an uncommon name, but in Virginia, it was actually a fairly common name, there are dozens. A very respectable genealogist connected himself, and, by extension, myself, to Valentine Mason Peyton, born about the same time at about the same place, a descendent of George Mason.
Wrong. Date of birth off by about ten years, and the man would have had to live in two different places (Louisiana and California) with two different wives at the same time. Possible, but I worked on it a bit and it's not at all the same man, there were also two different death dates and two different burial sites.
I would love to be descended from George Mason, but it's simply not so.
That particular line, BTW, is often traced back to various lords and ladies in England, also undeserved.
The more common "pot of gold" in the US is being able to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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