How do we differentiate between Fact and Fiction?

[brigidmac]

Chiddicks your blogs are wonderfully clear with wise words of advice


To anyone who believes that only dna from the people concerned for paternal identification may I.disabuse you

If you have a wide tree and your great grandparents birth father is questionable ...you.have to look at siblings of the named father and see if your DNA matches any of their descendants

I have cases on my scottish side where birth fathers are either named or the child is given their surname as a middle name

Small distant DNA matches do.indeed show a common location.& common. ancestor to two. men named
On.her childrens birth .marriage or death records

And there are no DNA.matches to.the man who the grear great great grandmother later married  .
(She had 3 children ...first one without named father and he never had children )
 
The same on.my.maternal side the man named by my great grandmother in.paternity case was indeed the birth father as I.match the great grandchildren of his sister and half sister .

It seems to.be quite common in my family not to bother with marriage and some of us never "pretended" to be married .

[chiddicks]

Thank you brigidmac for the compliments, much appreciated.

You also raise some good points concerning DNA and the things to look at when you have a mystery DNA match. I had something similar on my own tree, so you do have to tread carefully.