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I have a baptism entry for one of my great uncles which shows the names of both parents. But both had died within a few months of each other before his baptism, his father only days before the baptism took place, so it would have been impossible for either of them to be present at the baptism. He was brought up by an uncle and his family, so I assume they would have presented him, but they are not mentioned in the register.

So I agree, the parents names in the register don't necessarily confirm the presence of either of them at the baptism.

When you have a DNA Match with a User Name “kgeng45” and no Family Tree there is not a lot you can do other than look at the Shared Matches too see if their is any divine intervention likely to happen.

K Geng b1945 reports Zero records in Ancestry.

I have had success in resolving a few odd usernames for DNA matches, via internet searches for the same name.

In one case an Ancestry match used the same username for a pinterest account, and information that I found there allowed me to also discover her Facebook account and piece together her name and location. I discovered that she was a 3rd cousin.

In your case, there is a "kgeng45" who is an active member of the Pearl Jam Community forum since 2018. His image suggests that he is a lot younger than someone born in 1945, so the "handle" is probably not connected to his year of birth. Not a lot to be gleaned there unfortunately, other than that he is probably located in the USA, but there was also a user "@kgeng45" on Twitter, who could well be the same person. His name is shown as Kyle Gendreau. The Twitter account was active in 2015 but appears to no longer exist.

There is a Kyle Gendreau from USA who is a company director of Samsonite - the luggage manufacturer. He was previously a director of Tumi(UK) Ltd, and the Companies House record indicates that he was born in May 1969. Several previous officers for Tumi(UK) appear to have had connections to Samsonite.

Kyle Francis Gendreau is currently the CEO of Samsonite. There is more information under his profile on the following link:

https://corporate.samsonite.com/en/senior-management.html

There are 6 Kyle Gendreau profiles on LinkedIn. From photos linked to the "kgeng45" accounts mentioned above, it looks like the Samsonite CEO may not be the best match, and "Kyle G." on LinkedIn, from New York and linked to Epsilon Technologies Group could be a better fit.

There may be more to find, the above is just a result of 5 minutes searching on my part.

There are 2 Kyle Gendreaus on Ancestry.

I cancelled my subscription just before renewal a few days ago, as I have a code for 25% off via a family history society membership. I just tried the Lost Cousins link though and that now resolves to an offer of 30% off of the Everything subscription at £118.99. I'm in two minds whether to go for that or wait a while and see if I get a personal 50% offer from FindMyPast direct.

If you can afford to wait several months and resist the regular emails offering sequentially lower renewal prices, I have had the complete package twice for £47. Having said that I only subscribe to MH occasionally as I generally find it less useful to me that Ancestry and FindMyPast.

I've mentioned here before that my GF had a birth certificate which he believed to be his, and which as far as I have been able to tell, he obtained from Somerset House in 1946. However it was for a different person born the same year and having the same name. He died still believing it to be correct, and it set me on a merry goose chase when I first started my research, because I took it at face value and it was many months and a lot of research later when I discovered information that brought it into question.

He was orphaned at 3 years of age in 1901, taken into the care of the local poor law union, later placed on a training ship and went on to join the navy, so knew nothing of his actual parents or his family. But believing he was born in London (he wasn't, but his parents moved back there when he was only a few months old) having applied to Somerset House and given them his name, year and place of birth as London, the certificate he obtained was the only one they could have realistically come up with.