Name gatherers on Ancestry......an amazing complicated link

[Malcolm33]

    I would just say 'Distant Cousin'.     That would apply to almost everyone if you have ancestry from the British Isles.     Go back a thousand years and most people in quite a large region would be related.     There aren't that many different DNA haplogroups in Britain and in many places including all of England there is as much as 90% R1b1a2 - same as the 18th dynasty Pharaohs.   Check the dna of 2nd and 3rd cousins and you'll probably find just about every group.

[andycand]

Hi

On Legacy7 select tools then relationship calculator Just play around with the settings etc and you get some wierd relationships, and that is on a researched tree.

Andy

[a chesters]

Thank you for that Andy.

I have not had reason to look at that area before, but will have some fun with it now.

AC

[Janette]

Yep,this song comes to mind 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw&feature=kp

[Sinann]

A friend and I finally solved a mystery yesterday. Her grand aunt's first husband was my grand uncle, so tongue in cheek we think we were second cousins by marriage for a short while before we were born. 

[falcybe]

but of course. I have a similar story between my Belgian wife and (English) I. And seeing how our ancestors went round Europe and the world, I expect we were closely related long before we married.

[LizzieW]

There was a story on Daily Mail's website yesterday, but it's no longer available (odd because other stories from yesterday are still available) anyway the heading was "I'm Spartacus's cousin and I'm also related to Obama, Brad Pitt, and King Louis the Fat. 

There was a family tree shown and the man had, apparently, been researching his family for over 30 years, but when I read the article, it appears that he chose a celeb or historical figure and then researched how he was related to them.  That's one way of researching your family history I suppose, but not the way I do it. 

[isanor]

Hello everyone
What a convoluted story. So many people add names to their tree without proper research. It is difficult sometimes to distinguish between fact and fiction. The only sure way is to do your own research.
A few years ago, I came across a researcher who was determined to prove a link to Royalty and had added all sorts of red herrings to his tree, none of which could be proved.
So to all those real researches, I say carry on the good work.
I have had so much help from genuine folk and occasionally a few not so genuine.

Good luck everyone
Isabel