Don't know any of my DNA matches!!

[brigidmac]

I manage a lot of DNA accounts. Now and relatives of people I ve helped have often invited me as guest to view  DNA so I can spot patterns

I've had the opposite
Someone who doesn't match who should be a 2nd cousin once removed

He's the only other descendant of African + Welsh grand parents

2 generations younger than my friend

But he doesn't match the cousin descended from Welsh grand sister

Or the same 4-5th Ghanain matches or the matches in USA

This descendant is from eldest daughter

I know that this couple fostered 2 of their younger children out to neighbours after a spate of baby deaths

- that in her later years the grandmother
Married a Portuguese man to give him legal status I'm wondering if the couple took I. Someone  else's baby

Would that explain lack of matches
Or that they match thru a half sibling of Welsh grandma & an unconnected African person in his line

Hopefully when my friends aunt in her  80 s
Tests we will see clearer links to this match and the ghanains

It's likely that 1 of the aunt's did have a different father .. which wouldn't be that unusual in a sailing family

[Rosinish]

Hi Lor-R, welcome to RC 

You may want to join this face book page & request a Search Angel...

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01snb/

Wishing you luck.

Annie

[Biggles50]

There are DNA tools that are available that can help, there is a but though, in that they need learning how to use them.

A chromosome browser map can give you clustered match’s who each share DNA with others and that can aid in where to give specific match’s research priority.

There are techniques to deal with DNA brick walls that we all learn.

I suggest spending time reading up on the technicalities of DNA would be time well spent.

A low cM match can be a false positive and coupled with pedigree breakdown this might not be what they seem.

[DianaCanada]

Just a gentle reminder to some of the posters here that Canadian soldiers were in the UK during WW2 well ahead of the Americans.  A good number of them might have had Indigenous ancestors. 
I am a bit upset that my father’s service in WW2 and that of many other Canadians is often ignored.

[Biggles50]

Just a gentle reminder to some of the posters here that Canadian soldiers were in the UK during WW2 well ahead of the Americans.  A good number of them might have had Indigenous ancestors. 
I am a bit upset that my father’s service in WW2 and that of many other Canadians is often ignored.

Diana
I for one remember them and on the 1st July each year I especially remember my Grandfather who served in the Light Horse out of Lloydminster pre WW1 and was in the CEF in the war itself until a German bullet put paid to his fighting capabilities.

For without that piece of lead I would not be here.

[jc26red]

A recent (DNA) TV program highlighted a very very similar real life story about a young man’s journey looking for his heritage and a surprise unknown father. I won’t give away the outcome as it’s a lovely program. Tissues at the ready.

BBC3  - Stranger in the Family.  It’s still on iPlayer and worth watching the approach he used.

Hopefully it will show you that it can be done!

[DianaCanada]

Just a gentle reminder to some of the posters here that Canadian soldiers were in the UK during WW2 well ahead of the Americans.  A good number of them might have had Indigenous ancestors. 
I am a bit upset that my father’s service in WW2 and that of many other Canadians is often ignored.

Diana
I for one remember them and on the 1st July each year I especially remember my Grandfather who served in the Light Horse out of Lloydminster pre WW1 and was in the CEF in the war itself until a German bullet put paid to his fighting capabilities.

For without that piece of lead I would not be here.

Grateful for your grandfather's service, Biggles.
I would not be here either if my father had not met my mother on Beachy Head during the war.  He stole one of the English girls!  However, he was English himself, but grew up in Canada.

[phil57]

He wasn't Canadian, but a bullet wound to my grandfather's face and two shrapnel wounds to his head are how close I came to not being here today.

When I look back through my family lines, it's quite astounding how lucky I am to be here at all, and I guess it must be the same for most if not all of us alive today. Not just because of the Great War, but also ancestors who were the only child from their family who survived to adulthood and produced children, or died from complications of bearing a child whom without which I wouldn't be here also.

So many examples in my ancestry. It's quite thought provoking..

[DianaCanada]

He wasn't Canadian, but a bullet wound to my grandfather's face and two shrapnel wounds to his head are how close I came to not being here today.

When I look back through my family lines, it's quite astounding how lucky I am to be here at all, and I guess it must be the same for most if not all of us alive today. Not just because of the Great War, but also ancestors who were the only child from their family who survived to adulthood and produced children, or died from complications of bearing a child whom without which I wouldn't be here also.

So many examples in my ancestry. It's quite thought provoking..

It’s very thought provoking, how a simple decision can lead to meeting a future spouse or partner.  Also how the decisions of world leaders to go to war have such a profound affect on people’s futures in  very important ways that affect us for generations.  Am sure many people alive today in the Western world are here due to events connected to the two world wars.