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Thanks for your comments. I find the use of alias frustrating and having opened the GEDCOMs many have three generations and all are HIDDEN. My reason for asking was the general apathy regarding a lack of numbers and the small percentage who respond once contacted. I am still undecided if I should leave my DNA on GedMatch, or delete, but looking more to delete.

Those uploading to GedMatch seem to be shrinking. April 2024 I had four new matches in the top ten, which I assume were from Christmas presents having been processed. There were also regular relatives added albeit distant. By April 2025 there was nothing, and hardly any new matches before or since. From the scare stories I can understand why fewer test kits as bought as presents, but many are still being tested, yet they do not seem to be uploading to GedMatch.

Is this just my family, or are others finding the same?

The series of Early British Gypsy Families are available from Waterstones online https://www.waterstones.com/author/richard-edmunds/2337607

On FreeCEN it says on the 1871 Census that Benjamin was born in Eglwyscummin and Anne was born in Maenclochog. They were living in Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, with the 3 children born there, so more of a link that previously suggested.

I am the only of remaining. There was a paternal first cousin in Cardiff, with no contact since late-1960s and now I have found a birth registration and nothing else. (When my uncle died, his wife felt my family were not good enough.)  I have two maternal first cousins and no contact after the mid-1970s. There are a few second cousins on both sides. the only one I contacted had a DNA test and was directly related to A and B, but he died about a year ago.

Thank you all for your contributions. Apart from adding a few new names, I am not sure how much Ancestry will offer me. With too many common names it is difficult to identify the right person. I will keep searching and filling my family tree. It can be strange how new information arrives. On Rootschat I have mentioned looking for a paternal great-great-grandfather in being the named father of an illegitimate child. Helping someone in America who made a wrong assumption about my great-grandparents on his published tree, I now have a new lead with the right name and a precise location in being a hamlet, but he is too young, so I am starting to look for an uncle.