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Hi Robert, just read your post today as I got sidetracked with some holidays and such.  I went back and had a closer look at the 1901 census for Mabel Edith Black in Westmeath, Renfrew Co., ON and you have a point regarding the Wilfred Black listed in the family group.  This Wilfred shows up in later census entries as Wilfred Wilson, presumably taking on his mother's married name after marrying William Wilson on 24 Aug 1901.  I don't currently have a subscription for the Canadian Ancestry site but I expect to get a months subscription in the near future and I will see what I can find on his birth. I expect that there may be a connection for Wilfred to the Berggren family that his is living with along with his mother. 

Also, Terry indicated that he though Hugh Black's father was also Hugh Black. You thought that Mabel's father Hugh and your great great grandfather might be brothers. Have you ever found anything to indicate your great great grandfather's dad was the same Hugh Black?

Thanks for the info.

Jason

Thanks. I thought as much. Looks like he may have been orphaned or illegitimate or something.

Autosomal dna testing is great. I don't understand why people here would not see the use in it? If you are from England, as the poster seems to be, you will be able to match up with many of your relatives in England who have tested.  You will also match up with many of those branches of the family who emigrated. As the matches are good out to 4th or 5th cousins, you are talking about the same generation descendants as you of your 4th or 5th great grandparents.  You should have 64 or 128 of these ggrandparents (barring cousins who married in your ancestry) who lived ~1775-1825 or thereabouts depending on your particular circumstances.  That opens up many possible matches with branches who left to live in Canada, Australia, the US, NZ, SA etc. As a person from Canada for whom the majority of my ancestors emigrated to Canada around 1820-1840 from England, Ireland and Scotland, I anticipate matching up with many of those who test from the UK. It is definitely a numbers game so the majority of those testing come from the US but there are thousands like me who have also done the testing and count on folks from the UK to participate.  I believe that any of matches a person from the UK makes with those living outside the UK are even more useful as there is much greater likelihood of being able to zero in on the most likely place that the overlap occurs as I can tell you that with a diverse range of places that my ancestors came from, I can very likely tell you what part of my tree that your ancestry most likely connects with.  I'd encourange you to think again about doing a test. The prices have really come done, currently about $99US for the same test that cost me over $250US a few years ago.

Jason