Making peace with the unknown

[phil57]

Sorry that my detective work doesn't appear to be of much help Biggles.

It's a lot more difficult when clues lead to people outside of the UK, as records that might help further are either too sparse or just not there.

I've had results with several matches after researching various internet searches and social media tags etc. but mostly in the UK.

One was in Australia but born in the UK which I was able to match after I found his year of birth on another website, and resulted in a new line on my paternal GM's family.

But more often than not it's just another dead end. Always worth a try though!

[Biggles50]

Phil

Poor choice of match on my part.

I should have used one like Bonnie123 a 47cM match, shares are her Mum, Sister, Granddaughter and a 3C who are all in the 35cM range yet despite a tree of 5,000 people there is no apparent link but there are holes in it.

Very strange that there are no shares outside this small family group.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

Very strange that there are no shares outside this small family group.

It  doesn't take much to have a marked impact on some groups of matches. My NPE grandmother had kids via 3 relationships, three of her grandchildren and three great grandchildren have tested. The older generation often have mutual shared matches at h3c level but there's never shared DNA to the younger generation. There's a very obvious line in the sand beyond which the DNA don't reach but spotting it in the first place took some detective work.