Am I on the right thinking here.

[Essnell]

About 4 weeks ago I started to try to group S-I-L’s  match list  which was not making much sense.  As I said, Ancestry has divided the list into parent 1 and parent 2. 

I have been puzzelling over this division as Parent 1 appeared to be all on his mother’s line while Parent 2  looked to be connected to S-I-L’s grandmother’s connections.  That didn’t make a lot of sense. 

I tried listing out all of those on A3 sheets  - bigger page more info- 

I had that page lying on the desk and I happened to see that some of those names were in the big tree I had for the relatives of this person seeming to be   the grandmother. 

After colouring those out, I could see others  . 
1.  grandmother’s second marriage children   
These would all be half relatives  or should be - so they do not affect who S-I-L’s grandfather was.
2. grandmother’s  brother’s and sister’s family members 
3. a group with Kelly and O’Connell, O’Donnell 
4. a group with Moore  with 5 members

Looking at match lists for just two there is a group of 10, the same for both .

I think that the person of interest would be connected to group 3 and 4.

I have quite a bit of research on the Moore side so a doc similar to the Smith side may help.

Thanks for reading again 

Essnell

[David Nicoll]

It sounds like you are making good progress.
It can happen like that though, suddenly you see the pattern and things begin to make sense.
Sometime because of someone with little or not tree, but because of where they sit in the mesh of matches.

Happy Hunting

[Essnell]

Hi... It's been a few days since I had any news..... 
So first I have been able to break up this parent two match list into several parts.  They all relate to the male side which includes the gr. mother's family and her second marriage family. 

It still does not point to whom we are looking for. 

There is one group I am concentrating on which after running the cluster tool on ancestry ....yes it finally worked. This group form one cluster 7x7 individuals.

currently mapping those to see how and who matches to whom within the group and how often. Then who has the least matches and who the most and to whom. 

I have also found a contact in the area from whence these people came and the outcome is that we both are  looking at this same group . This is where our quarry comes from. and one line possibly in particular.  Slow progress but it is getting some sort of indication of where we need to keep digging. 

hunting well ...... Cheers     Essnell

[David Nicoll]

Good progress, keep it going, quiet applause from this corner.