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Hi David Nicoll and everyone here,
Thanks for the reply and your suggestions. 

I have checked my account and amazingly most things on there were already turned off. So it seems that it does not affect the hints notifications.     We will see as I have altered just one to 'Off'. 

The obvious thing is that no matter what is the response that they get from humans re hints , it is ignored unless it adds to their data [to spread about]. And it could be wrong or it cold be accurate.  They wouldn't really know.
 
My great grandfather's death has been a bit of a mystery, elusive.  I had narrowed it down to a 10 year time slot and I had a reasonable date,  but it was just an index record. Yesterday I bought a digital record which as proven it's accuracy.    I have now got to chase a census record to completely verify the record.  But others have on their account trees, a date twenty years earlier which was impossible given it was known where he was ten years after that date.

The Ancestry hint was not telling me anything just asking me to add info on him to my tree: by telling me he was missing death information !!!

  May be just    and move on... 
Essnell.

Hi Biggles,
Yes I reckon we are looking at something like that and we aren't even as close as you are, yet...... 
i am still working on all these scraps and i have come across cross marriages and brothers and sisters fron seperate families marrying but they are not part f the issue just in one of the families beign looked into . 

I will keep plodding along. 

Cheers Essnell.

Hi David and Biggles 50,

Thank you both for your responses.   
Firstly I am working with others who actually hold all the DNA files. I was given an invite several weeks ago and was able to access the DNA and the cM values then. Something has gone amiss with my access and I think it has to do with updating my OS on this and my main computers. They are LINUX ones. I have realized that that also affects the cache and this is why access as been refused by Ancestry. I have contacted them and all they suggest is to completely clear the cache. That is at this point not an option.     

Now  I  have actually spoken to the person holding the DNA and I will soon get a new invite. That will help.  In the interim I was considering making several trees around the information I had already made notes about.  It would be a good start.    On the actual site I had started doing the grouping  unfortunately due to the update I can no longer access  through the cache which allowed me to access already viewed pages and work off those and see the groupings.     

So I am sort of working a bit blind. 

This is re finding a set of grandparents -  Who, in reality to living people, are the great grandparents.    I have found the grandmother it's her partner we need to find if possible.

So person A  with parents W  father  and Z Mother.  Mother here is quite well known.   Father W's parents are  R father and Q mother.    Q we have found  it's R we are looking for.   

 In the search most of the searching was concentrated around her Q and her family as many of  their last names appeared in the match listings,  We think that this part is pretty well sorted.  I have made that into a huge pedigree document for us.   
What has me/us questioning is the fact that all these other individuals on the DNA match on Ancestry do not appear to be as cohesive as  the female side.  In  that list there are names matching those in the female side.

It was back then 1890 - 1920 a small community .   The place names show that .  I was also wondering if a place name map might be useful, just to see how small the community was. 

Okay, Biggles I am going to try your method in that post, from the provided link. 

Once i have access again i will come back with whatever i find.   

Thanks for reading and sorry it's a bit rambling,
  Essnell

HI Biggles, Thank you for that.  I will try to get some of that done. It will take sometime, so eventually I shall be back with some sort of find. 

Essnell.

Hi Aghadowey,
Thanks for the reply.  No I had not considered that scenario as yet.  Problem is I am seeing who I think is the female of  this couple and that is where the most matches point . Also many are from the same small town in a quite distant area of where this is supposed to have occurred. 

On the other hand I am not getting anything like a cohesive group of families that would be on the male side . It's just a hotch-pot. So because of that I am not sure that my thinking along the question lines is right.

I reckon we need another person closer related to test.    UGH!

 I shall keep searching - there has to be someone somewhere. 
Thank you for your help. 
Essnell.